STATUS QUOtes — 20180704

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You must always be willing to work without applause.” — Ernest Hemingway

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change—it comes in small steps.” — Mary E. Pearson

“We will embarrass our descendants just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.” — Sam Harris

“One of the first things a child learns at school is that some other child is getting a bigger allownce.” — Unknown

 
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Photography: My Shot at Puente Nuevo – Ronda, Spain

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Puento Nuevo - Ronda Spain

It was an unusual decision for us, but we decided to take a trip to Portugal and Spain this spring. Usually we enjoy hiking the national parks and beautiful areas of the United States while our knees and joints can still take to the hills and dales America the beautiful has to offer.

One of our favorite stops on the tour was Puento Nuevo in the town of Ronda Spain. My wife and I often remark at the historic nature of towns in Europe which are very old compared to those in the United States. We tend to think of something as being old if it was founded two hundred years ago, but in Europe we are often talking about multiples of that or even thousands of years.

Ronda was first settled in the sixth century B.C. That is old! The photograph above is one of my favorite shots from our trip. It was taken from the Puente Nuevo bridge which is the largest of a number of bridges spanning the gorge of the Guadalevín River that meanders through Ronda. I was hoping to capture the beauty and uniqueness of this spot and I think I managed to do so fairly well.

 

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File Name: ronda_spain_PuentoNuevo_DSC_3082.jpg
Capture time: 9:36 AM
Capture date: May 16, 2018
Exposure: 1/320 sec @ f/9.0
Focal Length: 22mm
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D3300
Lens: 18.0 – 55.12mm f/3.5-5.6
Edited in Lightroom

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180703

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.” — Salvador Dali

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman, American economist

“I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.” — Lewis Thomas

 
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Pickkleball: Why do you do what you do?

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When you are playing pickleball and you are ready to return serve, do you try to place the ball in a specific spot on your opponent’s side of the court? If you do, does your partner understand where they need to be to help you defend against the third shot? Do you know where you should be in relationship to your partner to best counter the returning ball?

In a recent post by Sarah Ansboury, Pickleball Tip: Follow the Ball, she explains the importance of knowing “why” you want to accomplish something on the court. She suggests that technique and knowing how to hit the various types of shots are not really enough. Sarah continues to explain why successful players need to follow specific strategies depending upon the variables.

If you want to “up your game” and begin to bring it to another level, check out her recent post by clicking this link:

Pickleball Tip: Follow the Ball

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180702

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” — George S. Patton

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.” — Golda Meir

“Someone said: The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. Precisely, and they are what we know.” — T.S. Eliot

“People say I’m a plagiarist… their word, not mine.” — Stewart Francis

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180701

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“I water my mind with books.” — Susan Sontag

“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

“To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” — Woody Allen

 
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STATUS QUOtes — Picture Quote — 20180630

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Today’s Picture Quote

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180629

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.” — François de La Rochefoucauld

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.” — Patrick Henry

“But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas all ran away & hid from one little Did.” — Shel Silverstein

“You always hear a headline like this, ‘Man Killed By Shark,’ you never hear it from the other perspective, ‘Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He’s Shark Food.’” — Gary Larson

 
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Lifehack: A Well-Placed Dot

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Sometimes a very simple thing can help make life a bit easier. I find a well-placed dot has the potential to make my daily activities more efficient. Below is just one example. The two vials below are the same shape and size and I use them every day to distribute vitamins for my wife and myself.

By looking at the tops of the containers, it is easy to see which is which. BTW, I also have a dot on the bottom of the pill container that has the dot on the top. In that way, I make sure the tops and bottoms stay together to avoid any cross-contamination of medications and vitamins.


Of course the mark doesn’t have to be a dot. It can be a small triangle or any tag. Any marking that helps the user decide between two choices can be helfpul.

Take this plug for example. Notice that the larger, wider prong (neutral) is on the right. And there is no marking on the plug itself.


For the record, here is the other side of the same plug, this time with the wider prong on left to show the other side of the plug.


I use a hot water kettle almost every morning and when I am in the middle of my morning regimen, sometimes without my glasses on, having a mark on the side of the plug that should be up when plugging the kettle into the outlet saves me time and helps expedite my routine.


It doesn’t have to be pretty (which is a good thing), just functional.


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Take this legacy iPad USB connector that I still use with my aged device. The USB connector on the left needs to be aligned just right with the wall plug adapter.


Like any USB plug-connector, there is a part that is open and a part that is blocked. Notice the upper, light (white) piece of plastic on top.


I placed a red triangle on the top part of the plug.


The USB cord is now much easier to match up when connecting.



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When driving home at night, I use my remote garage door opener as I am approaching and if it is dark, it is not always easy to locate the button for my car’s bay. A white piece of tape on the remote, helps me find the correct button.


Do you have use for a dot, triangle or other mark to ease or expedite your routines?

 

NOTE – Before anyone else beats me to it, I will be the first to admit that this is not earth-shaking news and perhaps many JBRish readers have already figured this out. If you have other unique, useful marking solutions, why not leave it in a comment below!

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180628

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“When it’s raining gold, get a bucket, not a thimble.” — Warren Buffett

“It’s odd to think we might have been sun, moon and stars unto each other. Only I turned down one little street as you went up another.” — Fanny Heaslip Lea

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” — Robert A Heinlein

“Giving Northerners unbuttered instant grits is an old remedy for getting rid of tourists.” — Lewis Grizzard Jr.

 
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