Archive for July, 2008
Etsy
I don’t know what Etsy means, but I know it is a place where you can sell handmade goods. I would like to start paining again and I think that it might be fun to try to sell some of the stuff I create. The only tiny problem with that is I don’t know if I could let go of my paintings. When I do something that I think is pretty great I love it. Each piece has a story. Even purchasing the paint, selecting the brushes, the canvas, it all has meaning.
My only real accomplishment in the painting department is here: http://www.postednote.com/eddosroom.htm the last two pictures in this grouping.
Many of you have seen this before, but only now have I realized that this would be one more fun creative project that I could add to my big pile of projects.
This is right up my alley. As much of a people person that I am, I hate talking on the phone. I prefer face-to-face communication.
http://www.slydial.com/situations.php
I love these slydial situations too, they all fit, except for the multiple dating one. I can hardly keep up with one girl, it amazes me that some men could keep up with multiple women, and those men who live double lives and have entire families in other locations – when I input that data in my brain I get a response in a robotic voice that says, “Does Not Compute – Invalid Entry.”
Work has been fantastic lately. I have these great projects that I am working on and being a productive piece of a very crazy puzzle is pretty sweet. Working in Supply Chain Systems you start to see how companies today are looking at new ways to make money by saving money in small areas. Improving processes across an organization saves time and money. When you have a great process it allows for people to get work done without getting bogged down in how they do it.
I think that streamlining processes at work has made me want to be more streamlined and focused in my own life. Organization is starting to become a new obsession.
Okay, I won’t bore you with any more details of my job, but I wanted to give a tiny update to my work life because I so rarely discuss it on this website.
- I must consult the Oracle… Er, um, I mean My Blackberry! #
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Growing up I often hid my ethnicity. I told people I was Samoan or just Native American, I rarely told them I was multiracial. Part of my fear came from overhearing racists comments about African Americans – comments that came from the mouths of people I respected – Coaches, Deacons, adults.
How horrible it is to live in fear of hatred because of something that you had no control over.
What prompted this post is the fact that right now we have two men running for President and one of them is black. I think it is great to see progress in America and how race has become less of an issue, it’s still an issue, but it’s less of one. However, what if we allowed people to run for president under false names and fake identities? What if we didn’t know if they were male or female, white or black and we only had the ability to judge them based on their qualifications? We could use technology to generate holographic images and fake voices for candidates and then they could have live debates.
My whole life I’ve heard people talk about people based on their color - I don’t worry so much about color, I focus instead on behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and how individuals treat each other. I’d like to see the rest of the world doing the same.