{"id":455,"date":"2010-01-28T23:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-02-14T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T03:54:34","slug":"ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2010\/01\/ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I crack myself up. I just made a second attempt to get control of my eating by design. A couple years ago I originally came up with the idea to use graphic design to gain control of my diet. I designed this 2 sided card that I laminated with quote, inspirational photos of me when I was skinny and all the reasons why I should eat good. I even threw in a delicious vegetable. The idea was to meditate on this card ever day to remind myself that I need to eat right.<\/p>\n<p>As you would imagine, I ignored the card.<\/p>\n<p>I still believe that I could use graphic design to remind myself of my diet since I keep seeming to forget. Anyway I came up with the idea of simplicity. I figure the original card failed because it was overwhelming with information. Who has time to ponder all of that. With the mediation card version 2 I would just put one statement on it&#8230;&#8221;I am in control&#8221; and print it on a business card. On the other side it says &#8220;think about it&#8221;.\u00a0 That should be much easier to ponder. I think this approach has possibilities only I still ignore them. Actually I have cards all over. At work and on the coffee table I keep it flipped to the &#8220;thing about it side&#8221; which isn&#8217;t as impactful as the &#8220;I am in control&#8221; side but people don&#8217;t wonder why that is then they would with the control side. Hollace seen the control card tonight and asked what and why. I suppose it is hokey or appears to be and I don&#8217;t want to explain it. Now just to meditate on them, I am sure they would work.<\/p>\n<p>My Garmin Nuvi&#8217;s squirrel voice wants me to tell my friends that I have a squirrel stuck in my Nuvi. Cracked me up nearly off the road.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I realized my life is like the movie Ground Hog&#8217;s Day, at least the first 15 minutes of it. Kind of freaked me out.<\/p>\n<p>ABC, don&#8217;t cancel Better Off Ted! Funniest damn show ever. Brilliantly funny cast and writing.<\/p>\n<p>This music video is brilliant<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raphael Saadiq - Staying In Love\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRGGkcKpxgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love this song<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vampire Weekend - Cousins (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1e0u11rgd9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and this commercial cracks me up<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sears Optical - Raccoon\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2dShCL4rSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ok, that concludes the Youtube portion of this ramble.<\/p>\n<p>Right now (well right now I should be in bed) but tonight I was planning on going on Lynda.com to do some more Google SketchUp tutorials. I have been doing them the last few nights. Finally a 3D program I can get and it is free instead of thousands of dollars. But the work account I log into says it has been canceled. I will have to take it up with Vic tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Good night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I crack myself up. I just made a second attempt to get control of my eating by design. A couple years ago I originally came up with the idea to use graphic design to gain control of my diet. 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