Somethin's Always Cookin' at the O'Haras

Just to clarify, there’s no one (I hope) that goes around by that name; this hypothetical letter, and literal letter to Collins Deben (now that name wouldn’t be as unfortunate, even though at the same time it is more corporate sounding), is addressed to a company.

Dear Franklin Covey,

What were you THINKING when you decided to cut costs by making my pocket original weekly pages back to back without the in-between pages of Notes and Tasks, huh?  Those in between pages were a huge differentiator for me, as no other planner that I know of allows that much space for me to keep track of the week.

Thankfully an employee at Collins Deben noticed that the cornerstone weekly had the extra pages still, and sent me it, thus continuing my unfortunate addiction to paper diaries.

Sincerely,

Toby O’Hara

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I wrote a letter of appreciation to Collins Deben yesterday, it’s going in the mail sometime today (thanks honey) for noticing that I could get the pages I needed with the other style pages. And I was in such a hurry I didn’t even change the font from Times New Roman.

A new thought just occurred to me, I wonder what most people use nowadays? I think Palm was on to something, I enjoyed it while it lasted, but in the end preferred the paper format. I guess people are using blackberries and iphones to keep their date books and take notes.

Speaking of iPhone, I’m going to carry on my mother’s independent streak and distaste for the mainstream and when my phone dies I’m getting a Motorola Droid, Cliq or hiptop. So there.

yes I like Google that much.

This was pretty funny via the Onion

Sorta missing the hype, I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s just because.

Missing as in “I miss you,” not as in “Argh, you made me miss!”

On Saturday last Star Wars Episodes II and III came on the tube, and, it was nice to see. I think I’d only seen them once or twice before, they weren’t really all that re-watchable, but pretty cool, and not too bad on the special effects.  It also made me feel bad for whoever picked Hayden Christensen out of all the gawky teens needed to play Obi Wan’s sidekick/estranged and soon to be completely evil former comrade. I think it was the eyes, they look rather sci-fi, don’t they? At least they didn’t go the easy way out and get Elijah Wood.

I also realised, upon watching this version, how explicitly Obi Wan was off playing hard boiled detective, and leaving Ani to fend for himself first against a woman, and then, a close second in sheer ability to completely subvert its prey, the Emperor.

But that’s not what I wanted to write about. In Episode II, The scene where they arrive back on Naboo, and Anakin is carrying Padme’s suitcases, they are the EXACT same suitcase I had as a graduation present some years ago, which United was unkind enough to destroy, and then replace with a piece of crap (a Delsey, I sold it on Gumtree)- Atlatis Vault is no longer made or available anywhere.  Photos of it have been scrubbed from the internet! Maybe I have one on the computer at home and I can upload as a visual aid.

It was the Atlantis Vault 30 inch. And I miss it terribly.

I do like my Samsonite which came later, just before our move to Aus. It’s, roughly 75/25, whereas the Atlantis was more 85/15. Think about it. Wouldn’t you rather fill it up and then slap the lid down? Me too.

I forgot to mention that there’s a new poll on the side, be sure to vote.  I wish my particular poll widget also had a place where you can fill in the blank with your own suggestion.

I was thinking about how to prevent people from not caring about when they open their car door on you. I thought of perhaps a magnet that you can stick on your car, that warns people, in a non-provoking way to please not bang their car door into your car.

There are of course a few problems with this idea:

1) It would probably get stolen

2) It might provoke peabrains into going ahead out of spite

Any other ideas? Use the comments on this post and give me suggestions.

Well it’s been a while since the last big update, I’ll see what I can do about that.
The basics:

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This was interesting.

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Dear Internet,
http://reborn-designs.com will become available in a little while, since we have decided not to continue paying the yearly fee.
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