Ahhh.. a short breathing spell.. calm between storms. The big project I have been working on was officially complete this morning.. at least for now. We present in on Friday. which is a big deal.. but for now, I’m taking a day or so off to not think o fit. or anything else. ..
It was a wonderfully nice piece of irony that today is the day that IBM started it’s Tmblr campaign on Play. I’ve been helping the folks at Ogilvy. our ad agency meet up with folks at work who have a playful spirit.. and there are many of them. you can check out the play campaign here , and the rest of the really. really, really interesting IBM tmblr channel here. I only learned about it recently.. but I’ve spent hours goign back through it. there are some really cool interactive pieces.. Check it out.. you’ll be hooked.
I say irony because the past coulpe of weeks had been trying to squeeze the play right out of me. I mentioned that to one of my friends at the ad agency in a note.. he shot back with the following:
:You know one of the things that I find, the more serious things are, the more you actually have to play. Sometimes it feels like when you’re really serious, you don’t have time for play. And that’s when you really need it the most. I know from work that when my career or the company or the industry has been going through tough times, you have to play to keep from going crazy. But you also have to play to explore. When you’re just focused on doing the thing right in front of you, and the thing in front of you doesn’t work for you—let’s say the laws of physics have changed—you can’t just keep banging your head on it. You have to think differently, and the best way to think differently is to start experimenting, try stuff, get rid of the rules. Copy other people. Combine ideas. Do all the kind of things that you do when you play.“
It took me a second reading throgh it that he was quoting me back to myself.. jus tthe kind of message i needed to hear 🙂 .
I started working this morning around 8AM.. and it’s now about 1AM. I took 15 minutes break to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.. and did some small jobs around the house.. maybe an hour total. That means I worked 16 hours today.. on a sunday.. and .. I did almost the same thing yesterday.
Just back from a very nice night with Luis and and Polly and their family an friends.. Really fun. It was a great break from a full day of work.. and another one promised tomorrow.
While there, I had a very quick conversation with Max.. who was tryign to help us sort out a compter issue.. while speaing with him he told me that the Drone Delivery pizza service that he’d been working on was written up in the New York Post.. yesterday ! They’re still working on the flight specifics.. but they’re geting slices to hungry patrons.. . How cool is that ?!?
While grabbing that pic, I also noticed a cool vid that a freind of Max’s took of their Floasis fire troop. There’ some nice footage of max workign with a staff..he’s a bbout midway through. Hot stuff !
khichdi – mung beans and rice.. that’s all Diane and I have eaten for the last 9 meals.. and we have 12 more (I think).
We’re doing something called the Colorado Cleanse for the second time. Our friend Liz runs these things for people and is using our yoga space for the meetings.. s we joined in.. It’s actually sort of fun. It’s about 2 weeks.. and for most of it, you eat like we normally eat.. just no oil, dairy or alcohol. The middle week though its just khichdi. It’s been an unbelievably crazy week at work … I think probably the most crazy work week Ive ever had.. but somehow this crazy diet has me feeling pretty good. I kinda enjoy being hungry…It’s like being on the Colony.. it keeps you alert and focused. You so enjoy the food you get when your hungry. .. and it so easy to do the dishes when you eat the same thing for every meal !
I weighed myself this morning.. 154 pounds. naked.. (tmi ?) which is what I think I weighed in college.
OK.. I’ve only gotten 3-4 hours of sleep the last 3 nights.. gonna try to sleep now..
