Category Archives: Personal

It’s that time of year: “An Evening in December”

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GeeWhiz blog goes on a two-week hiatus, as I focus 100% on my other passion: Broadway musicals. My keyboard and mouse will temporarily become tools for musings on my other blog, behindthescenes.wordpress.com.

The two-week performance run will draw an audience of 10,000 to hear the sights and sounds of Christmas. Set in a small town in Washington, celebrating Christmas with its annual Dickensburg festival, the plot reveals news reporter Bill Fountaine from the big city arriving to do a feature story on the festival. Big city reporter meets Katie, a child performer in the festival.

So, check out my cast member blog: “Behind the Scenes”
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This is Andy Gee, signing off. Now back to you in the anchor room.

GeeWhiz blog hits 5,000 visitor milestone

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before.jpgAll right, which one of you did it? Who among you readers chanced upon my blog at just the right moment and sent my blog count past the 5,000 visitor milestone? Please leave me a comment and I’ll send you a valuable prize, an old-logo company keychain.
From January 2004 to now, the geewhiz.wordpress.com blog has managed to interrupt a few people a day with a few insights on simplicity, writing, design, creativity, blogging and a slew of other categories.
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Sept 11 – If I Had My Way – Linda Eder tribute

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“Children would be cherished, hope would never perish…” linda-eder-thumb.jpg
Lisa and I became fans of Frank Wildhorn’s music, after seeing his “Jekyll and Hyde.” His music came to us then, and in the weeks to follow we camped on YouTube, iTunes, and other music sites to discover his music expressed through Linda Eder’s incredible voice.
(Yes, that Linda Eder, of Star Search fame.) “Once Upon a Dream” and “Someone Like You” from Jekyll are incredible, but God lights interesting paths for us to take, and so today guided our path…and yours…to “If I Had My Way.”

Written by Frank Wildhorn, slated for lyrics by Jack Murphy, then credited to Nan Knighton, this song is art following 9/11. A video was posted to YouTube of her first vocal performance of “If I Had My Way” but was later taken down.

 

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Monkey Commando, flying monkeys, the Pentagon

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I hung out with the Monkey Commando this weekend.

The Monkey Commando has targeted more than 25,000 men and women now serving in the military to receive (continued)

Time to pick up my pace in the blogging race

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If my regular readers (all two of them) have wondered why my blogging pace slowed down, I have a few reasons. Most of it stems from my perfectionism, which is a blessing and a curse.
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GTD – getting the inbox to zero

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I’ve been successful at getting the Inbox down to zero for the last two weeks. Yes, it fills throughout the day and night with dozens of new messages. But I’m continuing to practice the GTD (Getting Things Done) process of managing the Inbox.

My Next Action lists are growing, as are the Waiting On lists, the Shopping Lists for specific destinations, and the Someday/Maybe lists.

Dina H-S started a GTD users network at work. My commitment is to read through the entire book, cover to cover before the next meeting. It’s going well.

My wife says GTD is the perfect system for me, because (continued)

Virginia Tech Citizen Journalism

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As a professional communicator, I studied Monday’s Virginia Tech tragedy from several levels. More than any other news event, I noticed how it was broadcast off-network, on nontraditional channels, evidence of our new age of social networking. Students, faculty, parents, and alumni used Facebook, blogs, and digital repositories to post updates reporting that they were all right. Eyewitnesses used camera-phones to report from inside.

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GeeWhiz – featured blog of the day…uh…minute!

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You knew that WordPress displays a “featured blog of the day” on their home page, right? Sunday I logged onto WordPress to discover, to my surprise, the prominent (but fleeting) positioning of my blog as WordPress’ “blog of the day!”

But, was my writer ego to be stroked? No, on two counts:
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Who are you? Why are you here?

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As of March 2007, WordPress reports 3,515 total views of my site (339 best day ever). I’ve now become curious who my readers are.

  • Who are you?
  • What brought you to my site?
  • What keeps bringing you back for more?
  • What other topics do you want me to write about?

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started a new blog

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before-surgeryLuv2dance.wordpress.com, a completely different kind of writing project, will open a new audience to blogging. My daughter just came out of back surgery and is recovering.

Those who know her will attest to her high-achieving, constantly over-scheduled, socially-attuned personality. This surgery has temporarily put her on her back.

Follow the story, the background, the surgery, and the post-operative recovery at luv2dance.wordpress.com.

Memories of my brain attack, part V – tests, tests, more tests

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…continued storytelling from part III ‘goofier than usual”

While at Kaiser and during my recovery, different doctors and technicians put me through more tests than you need to know about. Here’s a quick list:

WellnessIQ – GetFit and the SuperBowl

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There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the SuperBowl and its traditional parties.raider.jpg

But alcohol with its calories, high calories in snacks, snacks while distracted by TV, TV ads that stimulate hunger, hunger slaked by alcohol …the vicious cycle can go on for four quarters. Remember weigh-in is Monday.

Action item: Just for fun, if you are at a SuperBowl party this weekend, actually write down what you snack on, and how much.

Let that information stare back at you.

I’m going for a walk mid-day on Sunday. Care to join me?