| Wedding planning, week 10 |
[Apr. 21st, 2008|10:14 am] |
Wow, not much to report. We really are down to the minor details. For example, Emily has been toying around with ideas for placecard holders. The idea is that when guests arrive, they are given some sort of favor that includes instructions on where to sit, etc. She bought some metal wire and made a bunch of "flowers" by folding cut wires around a pen. I jokingly call it her "garden". We've also been thinking in general about how to decorate the tables--whether to make poofballs out of tissue paper or something fun like that. In this process, Emily has proven herself to know far more about colors and how they go together than I ever will, so I pretty much keep clam.
I wrapped up my swing dance class on Wednesday, and now I'm trying to decide whether or not to take the next class in the series (Lindy Hop). The first class swung between mildly fun and maddeningly frustrating, but I think some of that was my fault and I can maybe improve my ability to handle such things by continuing the series. We'll see how that goes. |
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| Media update |
[Apr. 21st, 2008|10:16 am] |
I have a New Years Resolution to read more books--at least one per month. I'm currently one month behind.
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin: a collection of New Yorker essays that pretty much are all about the non-sequitur. Probably 75% of of them were laugh-out-loud funny and the other 25% were over my head. Steve Martin is way smarter than me.
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan: anyone planning to start their own business should read this book. The company in question failed miserably at the "get big fast" strategy of most startups who are trying to grab market share before larger competitors (AKA Microsoft) can sneak in. Some Amazon reviewers complain that Kaplan babbles a bit at times but I don't think that detracts from the story. Also fun was the fact that the book examined a bygone era now replaced with Web 2.0 and the similarities between the valley in the early '90's and now are striking. Do they never learn?
Rules For Renegades by Christine Comaford-Lynch: mostly mindless drivel. Books like this remind me that with the right agent and editor, anyone (myself included--sigh) could write a book. I'm going to guess that most of the people who buy this book are interested more in the author's descriptions of her liaisons with Bill Gates and Larry Ellison than any self-help or management advice. Sex sells. But mostly, the author comes off as someone who read "The Secret" and believes she can get herself anything she wants through sheer force of will. Those types of people exist, I'm sure, but I think they are born, not trained.
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