For several months, I was hoping that some of the political postings I made might be read and affect people, at least to look candidates in a way that the mainstream media wasn’t.  But all that’s nearly over, and I was happy to delete all that crap from my site.  Because the election is mostly […]

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I had to go through a new exercise that I’m not used to.  I’m working with a couple people on a website, and I needed to write contracts for everything, in order to protect and benefit everyone.   I looked at the task as a necessary evil.  It was time consuming and something that I needed […]

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My wife doesn’t know this yet, and she’ll probably punch me, but I bought two laptops today. This purchase was based on a long-term, well-thought-out impulse buy. So what’s up? Well I’ll tell you and maybe you’ll buy two laptops as well. But you don’t have much time to […]

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I am a proponent of staying current, keeping my mind sharp and being active in the smaller and larger communities I belong to. I am also a victim of information abundance. From a personal high level of interest in all things, I create and allow distractive environments to fester. I think I will feel better […]

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Still jetlagged, I was up for a lot of the night.  At 5:30 am I wanted to make the most of it.  If I couldn’t have a comfortable sleep, at least I would have a refreshing morning.  I decided to walk to the park.
I walked a couple blocks away enjoying the breeze, the rising sun […]

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I was sitting in the bedroom. It was an otherwise quiet night, when an intense emotion came over me. It was a realization of me. It was a brief daydream, a bright and heavy glimpse of what my last moment alive would be like. And more frightening, what the moment just after that would be. […]

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I sent my mom a small stack of my new business cards in the mail before heading off to Japan. I was really proud of them because Juri and I collaborated on them for a considerable amount of time. The card was also meant to be the symbol of my new business. […]

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1. I don’t introduce myself proudly enough or often enough. I can confidently say I’m a good guy.
2. removed (met that goal!)
3. Thoughout a month, I’m the most powerful and then the weakest person I know. I also cycle through being the most outgoing, fun, sad non-social, helpful, loving and off-the-wall. […]

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My InDesign CS2 Series is online. Mike Smick InDesign CS2 Atomic Learning.

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