Kid Creativity

My Lila, “Kids can be creative, just like humans.” I knew she was different!!!!

Speech

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes

Heh.

Progress

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis L’Amour

Play VS Work

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
- Evan Esar

Wow, yea.  That is true!  Crochet is technically work, but I love it, and do it all the time and enjoy it.  It’s technically work to do home improvement stuff, but D and I do it a lot anyway, and enjoy it. It’s technically work to organize things, but you all know that I live for that shit.

So this begs the question – How do you make work become play?  How do you find ways to mold your work into something you enjoy doing?  And then what do you do about the things you *have* to do that are not so fun?  I guess that becomes the checks n balances part of it… and is why we eventually get paid to ‘work’ and it is not considered ‘play’.

However, I am going to make a conserted effort when I do return to work next week to begin to think about how to change my ‘work’ so it is more ‘play’ and therefore more enjoyable.  First, I plan to list all the things I like to do, followed by a list of all the things I dont like to do.  Next, I’ll look at that second list, and work hard to identify the things I do that are unnecessary in today’s flavor of librarianship.  I also will look at that second list and see if there are matches with my work peers as something someone considers ‘play’.  Maybe a trade?

It would be interesting to create a wiki at work for all my work peers – two columns, what you like, and what you dont like.  From there, it’s an easy step to simply let people choose what to do and distribute tasks and initiatives.  And those things no one likes to do?  Well, again, distribute equally to ensure no one does nothing but crap they dont like to do.  After all, it is still work.

Awesomesauce

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

omg, I freakin’ love this!!!!  I’m totally making this my signature line on my work email.  : )

Numbers

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman

Pessimist Viewpoint

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will

Adventures

Adventure is just bad planning.
- Roald Amundsen

Change

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less”

– Gen. Eric Shinseki

Nuts n Cars

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Evan Esar

Reciprocal Love

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis

aint that the truth!

Bricks and Windows

“It’s a lot easier to throw a brick through a window than it is to make a brick or a window”
– Casey Durfee

The Future

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson

damn straight. coming to a store near you!