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Random Thoughts – 12-10-24

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image of Matthew and Maggie at costco

Just because I know how to mow the lawn doesn’t mean I should.

 I was chatting with someone this week and I was reminded of when a salesman from now closed R&R Sunrooms built my sunroom. We were talking about how I built my mom’s deck and helped Andrew Foor.

Shout out to Andrew and Shannon (Stout now) and the kids, build his brother’s deck in Raleigh NC.   The salesman, I can’t place his name now, it has been 16 years, mentioned that was great and all but I shouldn’t feel bad. “You do all this …” (speaking of my day job). I am paraphasing her e, “Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you have to. You make good money doing what you do, just focus on doing more of that and pay people that make less per hour to help you out. You have enough to handle.” 

For some reason that conversation has stuck with me over the years and it is starting to mean more everyday. 

Find your strengths and harness them. Take ownership of your strengths and take advantage of the skills that come easy to you. Don’t waste precious time trying to fit your personality / work ethic into a hole (career, lifestyle, relationship) it won’t fit in. 

Thanks for reading my ramblings. 

I am just a sound guy trying to keep the lights on. 

—Secrest Out!

Singing in the car – December 6, 2024 – We all die young

Music

I sing in the car every morning after taking my Dani to high school. This morning, I had to head over towards Matthews for a doctors appointment because of a sinus infection. I stopped off at Bruegger’s bagels on the way.  I recorded this of me singing in the car.  The recording is paired with images of my daughters and my late wife of 6 years, Sonya Douglas Ross.

PayPal donation comment to Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak

Family, NoAgenda

I am putting this here because the comment field on PayPal was too short to thank you for all you have done for me personally over the past 17 years, definitely during the last 6 years, after I lost the love of my life, Sonya Douglas Ross.

So thankful I still am a father to my 3 kids above. Maggie, Lainie, and Dani.

Thank you for your courage, Adam and John.

Please look out for my audio and video messages in your email either later tonight or tomorrow morning.

If I am worthy of a mention on the show, please don’t play video for reasons I mention in the audio file, but I am totally fine with you playing the audio. The video is a small portion of what I will be releasing next week at ClipoftheDay.com – “A tool used to document our lives”.

Long time douchebag finally donating to the best podcast in the universe. http://noagendashow.com/

Random Thoughts – 11-22-24

Random thoughts


In the morning, OK round two, my first note got deleted.  Always click the cancel button if you get prompted for delete or undo randomly when you’re dictating or move your phone by accident

I was composing a rather eloquent response/comment on TikTok to my daughter’s boyfriend and it got deleted, here goes again,

How is your stock portfolio going? Have you gotten into crypto yet? I waited for five years before I got in and I don’t regret it. 

This new assets class is being adopted by millions of people around the world. You are not too late to get in. My portfolio is doing well. I don’t have much but I have something.  That’s what matters when getting in so early in this market.

Once it finally clicks or metaphorically speaking, the light bulb turns on 💡 & you realize that crypto is just a method for sending value to another person for goods and services you’ll be ready to jump on the train.

Think back to 1800s, and the locomotive was just being released/invented. It was scary, too fast too expensive for the everyday public to use, but 195 years later we all use it. 

It’s the same thing thousands with money years ago, we bartered and exchanged sheckes or shells for these goods and services, 

Crypto is another way to do this. It is an advanced way to send another human around the world a shell. Yeah it’s a shell that’s protected by AES encryption, but a shell nonetheless. Once you wrap your head around that it’ll start to all makes sense.

The American dollar was not always a reserve currency used all around the world. This new asset class is being adopted by countless countries around the world to be just that, the world reserve currency. 

As always, this is not financial advice. I’m just trying to educate a fellow primate on this spinning oblate spheroid that is circling an average sized star, circling around a  black hole. 

Have a great day!

Locomotive | Definition, History, Design, Types, & Facts | Britannica

History of U.S. Currency | U.S. Currency Education Program

Shekel Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

How Bitcoin Uses Cryptography | River

How Does Our Sun Compare With Other Stars? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Random thoughts – 11-21-24

Random thoughts

My good friend Mary Helen Stirling, VP at a global technology company, helped me last night to string my thoughts together in such  an eloquent way.

I sent her some text to proofread that was planned as an email, I was to send to my past students at The Art Institute of Charlotte. It was so good that I decided to use part of it as an about page for the website.  Check it out by clicking the graphic below.

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