Singing Time

Choir started up this week. Unfortunately, I can only attend for the next few weeks. Starting February, my play rehearsals will conflict with choir rehearsals. Choir rehearsals are recorded though. So, I can listen to them after the fact and work on the songs on my own. My play should finish before the choir’s big…

Chunking Out

I don’t usually use “chunking” as a productivity process. Chunking is when you batch up similar types of work and dedicate time to do them. For example, I could “chunk” writing blog posts. I could spend a couple of hours on a Saturday or Sunday. And write a bunch of blog posts. In fact, I…

Clearing the Slate

I just read a post about dealing with last year’s emails. Chris Guillebeau suggests archiving the emails from last year. You don’t have to delete them. Just create a folder called “2024” (or whatever the year is) and move last year’s emails to it. The emails are still there if you need them. But they…

Learning Irish

I didn’t want to learn Irish when I was growing up. It wasn’t a thing. I knew that my mother could speak some Gaelic, but I never really thought of it as another language. I grew up in Quebec, so there was English and French. Those were the languages on my horizon. But when my…

December 2024 Mile Marker

December was a “step back” month. To be fair, it usually is. For the last few years, I’ve gained weight in December. It’s a tough month to “be good”. Parties. Celebrations. Traditional foods. Late nights. Drinking. You get the picture. The last couple of years, I gained more than 3 pounds in December. This year,…