What is our responsibility?

Nursing home
Yesterday, the 89-year old was concerned about getting back on time or risking poor treatment.

 

What is our responsibility?

Do we confront – honestly, openly, and lovingly – glaring situations or is it better to look the other way? Maybe avoiding confrontation is actually the high road.

Maybe it isn’t.

Where is the line for codependence and should we cross it (at any cost)?

Perhaps the only way to discover uncharted territory is to go there.

 

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Organized for travel

Apple Store Lehigh Valley Mall
He beat me at chess yesterday…on a Mac, at the Apple Store.

 

Does courage and personal organization go hand in hand?

We probably don’t think about the correlation.

But there’s power in doing it.

For only the second time since owning a laptop (2008), i’m traveling without it.

In it’s place, an iPhone 6. Blogging on a mobile device has finally reached hassle-free status.

The biggest hassle had been inserting photos into a post.

Traveling light is a metaphor and a reality.

 

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Live like you mean it

New Apple products
Apple is the reining Olympic champion for uncharted territory.

 

Live like you mean it.

Was recently told, in a non-flattering tone, that i live each day like it’s my last.

No one really knows how this is supposed to work because it’s similar to being family with an astronaut – most of us aren’t.

It’s pioneering work, pressing the limits of what’s possible – uncharted territory as it were.

 

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i trusted them and it didn’t work

iAqualink device
Brighthouse reconfigured our wifi network, at my request, disabling the old network password.

 

Zodiac pool app
Called iAqualink at 2:41pm yesterday and discovered i need to connect my laptop to the pool device.

 

special pin cable required
i only own Apple created cables, none of which fit this.

 

Best Buy website
Best Buy recommended this SKU# and brought one to the store pick up desk.

 

Best Buy product
Never doubting Best Buy, i discovered, at home, it was the wrong cable.

 

i trusted them and it didn’t work yesterday. Had to invest an additional hour to return and repurchase. i remained calm and grateful the entire time.

Backstory: Brighthouse came to fix a cable TV issue the day prior and turns out there was nothing to fix. i felt bad for the technician, so i asked if he could take a quick look at my wifi router. It worked fine but he had an idea how it could work better.

This change caused our old network, and password, to become obsolete. The pool app requires special handling. We leave tomorrow for four days. The pool is either going to run non-stop or not at all, since the mobile app cannot be connected. So there’s a time sensitivity to this.

One small thing has multiple ripple effects.

The good news is that even though pressed hard for time, it was still manageable because of good and decent organization and prioritization.

 

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What are our limits?

Steve Jobs revealing the first iPhone in 2007
Steve Jobs talks with his hands. A lot. i find solace in this.

 

What are our limits?

And how can we be certain?

We can be certain of one thing – nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Simple math.

 

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