Karen’s View

My dad used to play golf a lot when he was in college, and I’m actually surprised he didn’t pursue a career in golf. Here’s one of his friends from college, Dr. Eric Wilson, talking about his college of golf in Florida. Who knows, if my dad had continued playing, maybe he’d be like Dr. Wilson now.

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In just 20 minutes a day, you can train your pet dog.

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There is nothing quite like being in a crunch, and sometimes that means working late hours.  While other people are sitting at home sipping egg nog, I have been working at the office with our team, trying to finalize the trade show displays for January.  We have just a few more days before they need to be sent off to the printer or we will have to cancel our marketing for January, and the boss wouldn’t like that.

Unfortunately, we have had some difficulty coming to some sort of consensus as to how we want to portray ourselves.  There are some of the group that just wants to keep things how they have always been and use the same banner stands that we have been using for the past decade.  Don’t get me wrong, they were well done in their time, but you can tell they were made in the nineties – which doesn’t go well with portraying a progressive company.

There are others in the group that want to do something a little more exotic and expensive.  Most of their ideas hinge around having videos shown on big screen televisions, and make the video the focal point of our display.  I’m not too keen on the idea, but it might be something that we consider in the future.

We are mostly done, but we need to review the final designs before signing off on the project.  I just hope that we will be done by 3 AM – I have an early meeting at 7 AM and I would like some sleep before then.

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With all the hustle and bustle around the house over the last week, I finally have the chance to take a break.  I often wonder why we “do” Christmas the way we do it, since it is so very stressful, but at least it is over now for another year.  Yes, it is time for me to rest and relax for a change.

Even though I was going to curl up to watch a movie, I can’t help but see the stack of newspapers that I haven’t read staring back at me.  I wish I could let it go, but I paid for them, so I need to read them.

Looking through the first few, there was little that caught my eye.  Let’s face it, old news isn’t very exciting.  Some of the stories that I read in the paper I saw on Twitter already, so it was old and uninteresting.  I was a little sad too that I missed a sale on the airsoft gun that I have wanted for the last year, but I am sure that it will go on sale again, right?

Well, maybe I’ll skim the rest of the pile and hopefully find something worth reading.  Or, maybe I should go shovel the driveway.  Hmmm….. maybe I’ll go have a nap instead – that sounds like fun.

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Now, if you were to ask anyone about how tech savvy I am, most people will just laugh.  I guess it goes with my age, but when it comes to technology, I am not so good.  I am more comfortable with using a pen and paper to write, and I love using 35mm film.  Personally, I really feel that I belong in the past.

But my best friend Jill thought otherwise.  She bought me a digital camera for my birthday, and I couldn’t really say no to her.  She suggested it would be a good way for me to get caught up with the times and that it would save me a lot of money.  I couldn’t say no – I had to give it a try.

Well, I had my first problem with my camera when I realized it could only take eight pictures.  I am a little more trigger happy than that, so I went down to the corner store to get one of those secure digital SD memory cards that I saw on TV.  I asked the clerk for what I wanted, and I bought it there on the spot.

When I took it home and tried to put it in the camera, it sure seemed to be a lot harder than I expected.  Ten minutes of trying is what it took for me to conclude that it didn’t fit.  Great… another great moment with me and technology.

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