November 2007
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Merlene: Good Morning everyone. Ready to face this lovely Wednesday?
Merlene: @susanreynolds Ok… I am there and I’ve take a photo of a piano @conniereece’s I presume?
Merlene: s’ok… closed tabs closed everything. That SLurl is still slow loading though. So not just my maxed out system hehe
Merlene: @susanreynolds that’s not loading so far hehe
Merlene: @conniereece @chazfrench flew to Toronto to help my celebrate my last birthday. He made me the most amazing fudge peanutbutter cheesecake
Merlene: @zemote I have the clever moniker Merlene Writer
Merlene: @susanreynolds I just kinda got here not sure how. I tried to go to that Charlie Stross thing but SL crashed on me earlier
Merlene: @zemote well I can fly now…. just not sure what’s where. How to find happenings & such. People I *know* via twitter, etc.
Merlene: @chrisbrogan ahh the life of the social media rockstar! I swear you’re at a party every night.
Merlene: heheh @billcammack I was right when I said it probably wasn’t good
Merlene: @susanreynolds anything’s a help at this point thank you :)
Merlene: @DearYvette hehehe could be that
Merlene: err BFF even (no idea what BBF means but it might not be good)
Merlene: Oh c’mon… gotta be some more SL folks around to help me this evening? Please? I’ll be your BBF :)
Merlene: SL name = Merlene Writer and I’m currently standing in Ivory Tower Library of Primatives
Merlene: Ok so I’m in SL for about my 3rd time and I’ve no idea where I am or what I’m supposed to be doing. Anyone care to give me a quick lesson?
Merlene: @khaynes oh I’m not hanging lites. Sorry. It’s one of those things I just don’t do… decorate the outside of my house for holidays *shudder
Merlene: guess if I were going to hang off a ladder stringing lights today’d be a good day weather-wise to do so.
Merlene: @LPT this guy’s the kind of idiot that’ll have the xmas lights on from now til late January. Gorgeous day though. 58F and sunny.
Merlene: @davidhowell I was thinking of making that myself tonight but too lazy to out to buy bacon. Looks great @jeffreytaylor
Merlene: just stepped outside to take out some trash. Neighbour is out there hanging xmas lights. Ugh.
Merlene: grr attempted to go to the SL Stross thing but SL crashed on me again. I really need to cleanup this comp
Merlene: New Blog Post: Dream Big http://tinyurl.com/2kftmy
Merlene: @kelleyburrus wow that’s intriguing and how’d I inspire this?
Merlene: @chelpixie happy to help. I had that happen to me a while back and it made me nuts!
Merlene: @chelpixie clicking the far left edge of the greader window should bring back. You may or may not see light grey arrow partway down
Merlene: Ok kids. Got my Muse cd cranked, a fresh cuppa coffee, time to blast through the 66 (just added 2 more) tabs and get some writing done. Bye!
Merlene: heheh @conniereece funny thing I was thinking about that. In one of my past lives (20+ yrs ago) got a diploma in fashion design!
Merlene: Morning to you @DearYvette
Merlene: Ok kids. I’ve 64 tabs open on FF now. A handful are things like twitter, gmail, FB, etc. Rest are my “to read” or “to bookmark” - bye 4 now
Merlene: thanks @banannie7 the job will show the bank that I *can* pay more mortgage while I build up my business on the side :)
Merlene: @chrisbrogan I’ve had *just* enough caffeine for Nirvana this morning. More on a Muse & Jeff Buckley mood though.
Merlene: I’ve a couple NaNoWriMo tips posting later today. One is video (utterz) with costume/hat/prop goodness - it’ll be fun.
Merlene: @chrisbrogan if you come to podcamp Toronto in Feb we’ll make sure you get your fill of timbits :)
Merlene: yet another stepping stone to the big goal - moving to South of France in 10 yrs.
Merlene: thanks @billcammack it’s a different route for me to go for sure but I can still use my design background but now for interiors :)
Merlene: @chrisbrogan you’re too sweet *smile*
Merlene: thanks @susanreynolds the pay is great, flex hours, some fun too. Just gotta find something to bridge the next few months hehe
Merlene: 39 yrs old wearing cat boots & hauling slate tile & drywall around. Yep the glam life for me. Meanwhile scramble til March to pay bills. Ugh
Merlene: for those of you following along I got the job as general contractor foreman (forewoman? foreperson?) and I begin in late February.
Merlene: I’m hoping the boychild quits growth spurt soon. He just ate an entire box of cheeries & a litre of milk for breakfast. I need another job!
Merlene: @philcampbell point taken :)
Merlene: @philcampbell I didn’t mean to make you feel bad, hon. My point is that often we, in a fit of low self esteem, brush of praise too easily
Dream Big →
This morning on twitter an interesting thing happened. Now most mornings have interesting happenings on twitter, not just today but this one speaks to where I’m at right now:
kelleyburrus: @merlene inspired me to shift my perspective, randomly. I’m researching Alpaca farms….and why not?
chrisbrogan: @kelleyburrus - research away! Dream big.
That’s it right there. Dream big.
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