The last few months have been more than a little hectic for me. Work is just starting to come back to normal and home life is calming down a bit as well – any time I had away from work was spent doing stuff with the family and keeping up with tasks around the house.… Continue Reading
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13 Skills Challenge – Mid-February Report
If you’re like me, then you know that sometimes life can be downright comical! I went into the 13 Skills Challenge full bore and I really liked the plan I had set up. I was going to get in shape and learn a bunch of new skills. Then life got in the way. The last… Continue Reading
13 Skills Challenge – Mid-January Report
Now that the hoopla of New Year’s Day is over and the shiny newness of resolutions has started to tarnish, it’s time to take a look at the reality of the situation and see where I’m at. I didn’t set any resolutions, but I spent a lot of time in December defining the skills I… Continue Reading
2013 Skill #2 – Blade Sharpening
Whether it’s an excavator digging a house foundation or a bottle opener popping the top of your favorite beer, tools are what allow us to perform difficult jobs more easily. If you take a close look at all the tools we use, you’ll notice that many of them have some kind of cutting function associated… Continue Reading