Dr Wingnut

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  • Justified

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    Jill and I were talking over dinner about the ending of the FX Series Justified.  Jill wondered if Marshal Raylan Givens would go to Florida, and I predicted that he would be killed and that Boyd and Ava Crowder would walk off into the sunset.What I didn’t say, and just thought of was that they…

  • Oso, WA Landslide

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    Today is the first anniversary of the Oso, Washington landslide at 48.285092, -121.850344.  The slide occurred Saturday, March 22, 2014, at 10:37 AM local time.

  • Feedback

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    For every 2-3 minutes of positive feedback employees get, they get 3,000-4,000 minutes of negative feedback.  We can do better as supervisors.That’s my goal.

  • SCARF

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    For those of us who learned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in college, I learned about another model, SCARF (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness).

  • Rule number 1 when drinking, stay indoors!

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    Two-thirds of the people who died of hypothermia in Wisconsin were men, and their average age was 66, the report said.  About one in five were intoxicated, subsequent toxicology tests determined.  The average outdoors temperature at the estimated time of death was 6 degrees Fahrenheit, public health officials found.Read more at: philly.com

  • Riding the Bus

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    Monday’s ride to and from work was uneventful.Tuesday during the day I had to attend a retirement party for a guy that I worked with at MDE, so I drove to work.  I’m keeping a paper diary of my commutes which will summarize every month.

  • New Year’s resolutions

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    I’m back from a week of work related travel last week, so I’ve started my New Year’s resolution to start riding the bus to work again.  I also adjusted my ActiveLink goal to four activity points per day.  This eating right, exercising and reducing your carbon footprint seems like it’s gonna be a lot of…