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More and more, I'm finding myself stressed out by overwhelm and less tolerant of the mess, so this idea comes at a great time. And it resonates strongly with some other approaches I find appealing: Getting Things Done by David Alan and The Clutter Diet.
Here's The Cult of Done Manifesto from Bre Pettis' blog:
While I don't fully embrace all of these points*, I really like the state of mind that they engender and I'm bringing that more and more into my daily life. They recall the distinction between finished and complete that I learned through some of Werner Erhard's trainings. In short, that completion is a declaration and doesn't require that something be “finished”. I also like number 11, Destruction is a variant of done, which speaks to the power of simplifying and decluttering.
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This year's Lamp Day festivities were held at Kris and Steve's (as is traditional). We had yummy
food and drink, and played Cranium (as
is traditional). I discovered that I can't hum the melody to Pink's Get the Party Started,
which was something of a disappointment. Our team still won that match, however, thanks in no small
part to a lucky word set on a Turbo Team Gnilleps®.
i'm in ur papers ...
stealin ur identifee
Taken at the rear (Willow Springs Road) entrance. [Google Maps]
Austin Explorer has a nice article on the history of Penn Field.
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Thanks, Kent!
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Built around 1910, this Folk-Victorian style cottage was originally on the corner of 42nd and Guadalupe Streets and was apparently a two-family duplex. The first documented owner was a painter named C. L. Chapin in 1922. By the 1930s, more automobiles were on the road and about 1932 the house was moved to the lot behind it on 42nd Street and rotated 90 degrees. In its place on the busy corner a new “filling station” was erected. Later a Gulf Service Station, the business remained at this site for almost 40 years. A succession of service station employees lived in the house over the next decades, either as owners or renters. In the 1970s the house was acquired as a rental by Charles and Helen Yarchak and it eventually became home to many local musicians, including Lyle Lovett and Champ Hood. It was then vacant for years and slated for possible demolition into a parking lot.
In 2003 Thad and Laura Avery purchased the house and began a major restoration. Keeping to the original footprint of the structure, they have preserved the original Longleaf Pine flooring, transoms and wainscot while rebuilding the entire structure. The house was so badly deteriorated that the trees growing up through the foundation into the house had to remain in place until the foundation could be replaced. Using old photographs, porch railings and other features have been replicated, and the house gaily painted. It is now in use as office space for a local Hyde Park-owned company.
–Text from a Heritage Society of Austin award citation.
See the house on Google Maps (it's the second building east of Guadalupe on the north side of W. 42nd Street).
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This one's for Sam!
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Get The Point? (Sorry!)
Taken at Threadgill's World Headquarters.
]]>The cast came off a few week's ago. Here's how it looked:
He's since had the stitches out and had another x-ray. He's got three more weeks before they take the pin out, but he doesn't seem to be in pain. He limps about with authority (like House (but without the cane)). Of course, he can't jump like he used to, but he can move surprisingly quickly when he wants to (which is generally only when food is involved).
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