Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Star Trek Character

Your results:
You are Deanna Troi
Deanna Troi
80%
Beverly Crusher
75%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
75%
Spock
59%
Geordi LaForge
55%
Data
51%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
50%
Uhura
45%
Will Riker
45%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
40%
Jean-Luc Picard
35%
Worf
35%
Mr. Scott
30%
Mr. Sulu
30%
Chekov
20%
You are a caring and loving individual.
You understand people's emotions and
you are able to comfort and counsel them.
Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character am I?" quiz...

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Confidence

I have been writing music for almost four years now.  Some of the songs are better than others, but none of them will ever be big hits.  What do I do when I decide that I am just mediocre at this?  Should I quit?  Should I keep doing it, until it isn't fun?  Should I push myself to try to get better?  How can I tell what it good?  Should I be the audience or should I judge the work by finding more people to be my audience? 

I am feeling a bit discouraged. 

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Recovery from the 2013 Boulder, CO, Flood

The guy cleaning up the wet crawl space from the flood is done; the furnace has been replaced. Total cost: $8,600 - $950 from FEMA = $7,750. Car in for maintenance. This has been an expensive couple of weeks.

Amusing aside: years ago, after watching where people would sit in someone's living room, I decided that people were least likely to sit on sofas. So, I when we moved, I didn't move the sofa. We have, instead, 4 upholstered chairs in our living room, 3 of which are recliners and the other one has a footstool that goes with it. When the FEMA lady came to see how much disaster aid we would qualify for, she took a look at our living room, which is CLEARLY a living room, and said that she couldn't count it as such, because it didn't have a sofa. She called it an office, even though there is no desk, no computer, and only end tables. I don't know if it matters, but I found it amusing. I wonder if I had a sofa in a bedroom, she would call that a living room...