Spin Hook Kick!

Parents haven’t been allowed into the dojo during the pandemic; if we want to watch class, we watch over Facebook Live. Luckily, the camera was at just the right angle and Connor stood in the right line for me to screen-capture his spin hook kick today.

Inchworm

This little guy hitched a ride indoors on some peonies last week.

BTW, the soundtrack for this video is Inchworm, performed by Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra, published by Decca Records in 1952, digitized from record (78 rpm) and uploaded to Archive.org by someone with a fancier hi-fi setup than mine.

Even so, I received a Copyright Claim email within minutes of uploading this one-minute video to YouTube. For including one minute and six seconds of a song recorded before my mother was born on an unmonetized video. I understand that copyright infringement is a Big Deal, but it’s seriously just a cute one-minute vignette.

Important and Urgent

I’ve had this quote on my cube wall for some time now (attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower):

What is important is seldom urgent,
and what is urgent is seldom important.

It’s been hanging out there, staring at me, but I haven’t really broken it down until recently.

During one of my plunges down the YouTube rabbit-hole, I came across this video that explained the difference between urgent and important:

Of course, I’d heard of the Eisenhower Matrix before — or at least seen it — but it wasn’t until I watched this video that I realized I’d never really thought about prioritizing my Urgent tasks and my Important tasks differently.

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