After a meeting today, I grabbed an early dinner with a friend. In an old box car style diner, this advertisement on the placemats beckoned:
Please note, discounts are available for bearers of the ad.
Month: August 2005
Word Count Meter
Welcome the latest addition – a feature borrowed without shame – that improves the browsing experience: a word count meter. Sort of a Gantt chart for open writing projects, the line graph displays real time progress on a given manuscript.
The feature serves two purposes. First, to remind myself that every project has a beginning and end, and that completion is my goal. Second, and far, far more importantly, posting the stat closes off the option of slacking. If anyone notices the meter appears jammed, dips back to the left, or moves to the right in microscopic increments over a period of many days, call me on it via comments or email. That’s correct. Consider the meter an open invitation to nag me.
NOTE: I have an important meeting tomorrow at 12pm. Any spare karma lobbed my way will be appreciated and returned many fold. 😉
Opportunity
Opportunities come in many forms, real, imagined, or unrealized, and their source seems as mysterious the direction they might take one. To some, that viewpoint may appear overly optimistic, but the older I get, the more opportunities I notice. And there are probably tons more beneath the surface that I’m unready to see, awaiting discovery.
Maybe karma drives this train, automagically stopping at the homes of the deserving and the unfortunate. Or maybe fate calls the shots. No idea, really. All I know is that there is seldom a run on opportunity. At least not where I try and shop.
In other news, I was duped by the advertising for the new movie Red Eye. The film is neither a horror flick as the ads implied, nor is it particularly scary, or even a thriller. It’s a movie with some tension and some entertainment value. I’ll review it later this week.
Tons going on
Please check back later Friday. A real update is coming.