A random thought from Kerrying On…

I wish I could have been a mouse in the pocket of the famed alpinist Sir Edmond Hillary when he climbed Mt. Everest for the very first time. Or maybe with Albert Einstein when he first scratched on the blackboard the mind-boggling formula E=mc2. Not that I care about mountain climbing or physics; I just think it would be cool to live in a pocket.

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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January issue: 3

Total: 7 (three issues)

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A random thought from Kerrying On…

Never borrow a coat from the guy who first came up with the expression “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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A random thought from Kerrying On…

When I was a kid growing up my dad always used to tell me he was an entrepreneur—which I looked up in the dictionary and learned is French for “between preneur.” And although I’m not absolutely certain, I’m pretty sure preneur means “jobs.”

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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A random thought from Kerrying On…

If reincarnation is true, I want to come back as myself—only in the form of one of those plastic bobble-head dolls. That way I can sit at my desk and jiggle my head back and forth and I won’t have to move my arms and legs at all. That’s what I currently do at work, but if I were a bobble-head doll people would find my inactivity cute and charming instead of loathsome and disgusting.

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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A random thought from Kerrying On…

Next time you’re at, say, a Kevin Costner movie and the person behind you starts talking real loud on his cell phone, close your eyes and think to yourself, “Phone explode! Phone explode!” If everyone in the theater did this at the very same moment the phone probably wouldn’t explode or anything, but then again, with their eyes being closed and all, nobody would have to be watching a Kevin Costner movie.

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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December issue:2

Total: 4 (two issues)

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A random thought from Kerrying On…

Sometimes I drive around town in my car while wearing a bicycle helmet. Then when I spot a biker who isn’t wearing a helmet I roll down my window and screech obscenities while pointing at my helmet. Everybody deserves a positive role model.

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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A random thought from Kerrying On…

The other day I went to the pet store to buy my wife a puppy for her birthday. The salesman up-sold me to a Clydesdale. One thing’s for sure—when you give your wife a Clydesdale you don’t get that cute little jump in the air accompanied by a screech of joy. Nope. Not with a Clydesdale.

From the newsletter article Kerrying On; June 2007
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From Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity:

You don’t manage information overload — otherwise you’d walk into a library and die, or the first time you connected to the Web, or even opened a phone book, you’d blow up.

- David Allen