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35 Gifts: Day 6
Jan. 5th, 2010 07:41 pmI enjoyed today! I'm still more tired than usual but I managed my physio exercises for the first time in a few days and felt good for it.
Things relevant to my 35 Gifts project: I gave a card to Mik who's staying with me, "Happy 13600" which is how many days old he is today, just writing inside that I was glad he'd chosen to spend time with me and stay here. Cards celebrating so many days old was the idea my friend emailed to me - I realised that for almost anybody if I know their birthday I can easily calculate days, weeks, and months and there's a pretty good chance that one of them is a round number or some number like "66" which looks nice. It's a fun "just because" sort of card, to give.
I also spent some time playing the sort of online games like Free Rice and Help Thirst, and clicking on stuff at The Hunger Site and The Non-Profits. I've loved Free Rice for ages, but haven't visited the others before. If I'm going to be in the sort of mood where I want to play games, I may as well play games which have good uses!
Lastly I did some research for Mum and Dad today, about backup software for their external USB drives. Found what seems to be the best solution and let them know where to get it and that if they brought laptops and drives around that I'd set it up for them. Something that's easy for me and almost impossible for them.
Worked some more on the cards I've mentioned before that I'm going to get the librarian/pharmacist friends to give out for me. The actual cards are finished now - I just need to write in them.
Thought lots about compliments today, and thanking people who do normally thankless jobs - it's something I usually do anyway but I've been extra careful about it today. I had call to phone the Apple technical support help line today and although the problem wasn't totally fixed by the end of the call I thanked the techie sincerely for the great help I'd been given. From the reaction, thanking tech support personnel is a rare event... that's sad. I think society needs more "please" and "thank you" type "social lubricant" in it to run properly - it makes people feel appreciated and worthwhile.
Helping people to feel appreciated and worthwhile is a noble endevour.
That's all for today. I'm enjoying spending time with Mik, even when we're just in the same room doing different things and not chatting - I'm starved for that.
Hugs,
Ricky
Things relevant to my 35 Gifts project: I gave a card to Mik who's staying with me, "Happy 13600" which is how many days old he is today, just writing inside that I was glad he'd chosen to spend time with me and stay here. Cards celebrating so many days old was the idea my friend emailed to me - I realised that for almost anybody if I know their birthday I can easily calculate days, weeks, and months and there's a pretty good chance that one of them is a round number or some number like "66" which looks nice. It's a fun "just because" sort of card, to give.
I also spent some time playing the sort of online games like Free Rice and Help Thirst, and clicking on stuff at The Hunger Site and The Non-Profits. I've loved Free Rice for ages, but haven't visited the others before. If I'm going to be in the sort of mood where I want to play games, I may as well play games which have good uses!
Lastly I did some research for Mum and Dad today, about backup software for their external USB drives. Found what seems to be the best solution and let them know where to get it and that if they brought laptops and drives around that I'd set it up for them. Something that's easy for me and almost impossible for them.
Worked some more on the cards I've mentioned before that I'm going to get the librarian/pharmacist friends to give out for me. The actual cards are finished now - I just need to write in them.
Thought lots about compliments today, and thanking people who do normally thankless jobs - it's something I usually do anyway but I've been extra careful about it today. I had call to phone the Apple technical support help line today and although the problem wasn't totally fixed by the end of the call I thanked the techie sincerely for the great help I'd been given. From the reaction, thanking tech support personnel is a rare event... that's sad. I think society needs more "please" and "thank you" type "social lubricant" in it to run properly - it makes people feel appreciated and worthwhile.
Helping people to feel appreciated and worthwhile is a noble endevour.
That's all for today. I'm enjoying spending time with Mik, even when we're just in the same room doing different things and not chatting - I'm starved for that.
Hugs,
Ricky
