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Oh the things we learn when we’re on our way to doing something else! Sometimes we get stopped in our tracks, but if we take time to learn the lesson well, it can pave large sections of the road ahead for us. In our panic we sometimes miss that learning curve advantage.

When I first installed this Suse 9.3 last September, I noticed that I could easily give the print command by clicking a button or going down the File drop down menu and clicking print, when in Open Office. When I tried that from some other program

One hand washes another. After the last eAction issue, Carla wrote to thank me for the quotes I used in this section. She encouraged me for encouraging her. See how everything we initiate brings us a return of a similar kind?

It’s the old, “you get what you give, or what you sow” principle.

When I go shopping in a store, or step into a business office where I’m likely to make a deal and spend money, I look for clues about the people behind that store or office. Cleanliness makes a good impression on me. But an office can be clean and lean looking, and still have a sterile air about it. If I spot plants and reading materials, I warm up to the place. But what really does it is if the first person to greet me is friendly, outgoing and willing to chat.

If you are a writer or an artist, it is conventional to have a portfolio to show when you apply for a job. Especially in the creative fields, people don’t know what type of style or what slant your skills have if they can’t see samples. On a web site you want to be careful how you display writing and art samples, without encouraging theft, but there are ways.

So there I was with this highly touted SuSE 9.3 as my only operating system on my computer, and yet the email was not sending as it should. After my niece and her little girl left I decided that I had been long enough on this steep learning curve, and I needed some balance in my life. I went back to my usual work schedule, doing my writing in my writing hours, and my web design in it’s hours, and when it came to my usual email hours in the afternoon, I went through a convoluted process of extra steps.

“If you have made mistakes… there is always another chance for you ..
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down

The other night as I was shutting down the computer after a very long day, I grabbed a square of paper and scribbled down the different areas of my life that I try to faithfully keep going. I’ve blocked off time for these, but it is a real juggle sometimes to give them all the attention they deserve. My paper had room for only 18 of these!

I went to bed thinking a thought that has crossed my mind at various times before; I’m really a rare gemstone,

Dr. Phil, of American TV fame, has prepared a test to get a snapshot of what others think of you. We all want to know that, don’t we? He did this test with Oprah. Dr. Phil scored 55, she got 38. Now we discover that the Human Resources Depts, of some large companies are using this simple test to find out if they’ll get along with you as an employee. It only takes two minutes.