Plan
It's not so much resolutions as it is the mantra from the project management seminar I attended a few months back: Plan your work / Work your plan.
1. Having ended production in the MarJai Reproductive Factory, it's time to dispose of Bean's outgrown clothes to thrift shops, charity orgs, consignment shops, or online sales. I guess it's time to explore CraigsList.
2. Repeat for Bean's outgrown toys.
3. I watched Food Network's Chefography on Ina Garten and was inspired. I don't think I'm up to matching tzel's 'one new cookbook recipe a week' goal but I was inspired by Ina's idea of entertaining. So I'm going to try to have a small dinner party once a month.
4. I saw an article at Wired or Discovery about science cafes. In short, you go to a bar, order a beer, and listen to someone explaining the science behind the killer waves at Maverick Beach for 20 minutes then spend the next 30 minutes in Q&A. Casual science seminars at your local pub! I started looking into SciCafes in my area and learned that one of the local professional research societies has sponsored a few with NASA. I'm both excited and disappointed - excited that they exist here and disappointed because I was looking forward to organizing a new one. So I'll attend the events they have scheduled this spring and see if I can help out any. I'd like to see the scientists come from other sources than NASA - say, marine archeologists from the Mariners Museum for example.
5. Get my gosh-durned application in to Mensa...
1. Having ended production in the MarJai Reproductive Factory, it's time to dispose of Bean's outgrown clothes to thrift shops, charity orgs, consignment shops, or online sales. I guess it's time to explore CraigsList.
2. Repeat for Bean's outgrown toys.
3. I watched Food Network's Chefography on Ina Garten and was inspired. I don't think I'm up to matching tzel's 'one new cookbook recipe a week' goal but I was inspired by Ina's idea of entertaining. So I'm going to try to have a small dinner party once a month.
4. I saw an article at Wired or Discovery about science cafes. In short, you go to a bar, order a beer, and listen to someone explaining the science behind the killer waves at Maverick Beach for 20 minutes then spend the next 30 minutes in Q&A. Casual science seminars at your local pub! I started looking into SciCafes in my area and learned that one of the local professional research societies has sponsored a few with NASA. I'm both excited and disappointed - excited that they exist here and disappointed because I was looking forward to organizing a new one. So I'll attend the events they have scheduled this spring and see if I can help out any. I'd like to see the scientists come from other sources than NASA - say, marine archeologists from the Mariners Museum for example.
5. Get my gosh-durned application in to Mensa...