How to Over-Cook a Potato

1. Pre-heat your oven to 400°F
2. Clean your potato. Make sure to remove any sprouts and cut out “bad spots,” then use a brush and water to wash off the dirt.
3. Dry your potato.
4. Lightly spread olive oil over your potato.
5. Rub salt onto the  potato(sea salt works nicely here).
6. Put your potato in the oven.
7. Have a beer.
8. Read from Bertrand Russell’s “Problems of Philosophy.”

Warm Fuzzies

Ya know what, after the first half of this week, I’m in serious need of some cuteness:

That’s better.

A lot has happened in the past few day. Work, school, and relationships are all demanding my attention right now. Not to mention some internal things that I’m learning or trying to work on. I haven’t thought them out well enough to write about them, but I will leave you with a few things to think about:

1. Community is important. Fellowship, brotherhood, friendship, however you want to frame it.
   • Take some time out this week to build into your community. Make something better, spend some more time in it, or just let the people know how important they are to you.
   • If you’re not in a strong community, take some steps to getting there. It can be scary, it can hurt, but a good community is worth that.
   • I realize the term community may sound dry to some people (if you for instance, read teh introduction to Wikipedia’s entry on community.) But it means something more to me here.

1. Meditate. Take some time to write down a list of people around you, situations in the world, and personal concerns (things you need, like, want to change, or are thankful for).
   • Give yourself 20 minutes at the end or the beginning of your day (or both) to think about these things.
   • Express them all in words. It doesn’t have to be out loud, but using words can help you think about and process things.
   • If you are a praying person, then pray.
   • Try to set aside your concerns and realize that worrying won’t help, but giving them thought may help you reach a conclusion.
   • Try to focus on needs that you see around you. You are more likely to notice when good things happen and, more importantly, you will be more likely to help out.
   • Be thankful. Recognize the good things. Be greatful toward people or just for how things turned out. Try to see the good even in situations that you aren’t completely happy with.

When I was a freshman in high-school, there was a science teacher who helped lead a Fellowship of Christian Athelets group. It was a silly group since very few, if any, of us were atheletes. He told me that it takes three warm fuzzies to counter-act just one cold prickly. I still believe that.

Don’t Not Sleep So Much

Ok, I’m too tired to write much, so I’m just going to thinking about everything interesting that happened this week and direct my thoughts into this blank space for those of you with ESP.

For those of you with RSESP, you can subscribe to my ATOM feed and hear my thoughts as I think them.

Let’s Play Some Games!

Things you do when you’re tired:

Leave these things out overnight

• milk
• eggs
• maple syrup

Things you do when you’re supposed to write a paper:

Mod your Mac

Snow Day

Should Be Reading Bertrand Russell

Hey guys – here’s a good tip for developing a habit: Start small. Don’t make the task overwhelming at first, just get the action into your routine and recent memory.

So here’s a cool video that everyone should watch. It’s called The Show with ZeFrank.

He’s funny, but also pretty insightful so he gets my recommendation.

If you’re interested, here’s today’s show:

And the first show:

And the iTunes podcast link: The Show

Hey to all your Sports Racers out there.