Finally! Gmail now lets you export your contacts. Which means I can update Outlook… then sync my Palm. I no longer have to call someone and ask them to log in to my Gmail and search through my mail just so I can get the phone number I need.
[Via- New Gmail Features - Lifehacker]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it - Henry
David Thoreau

What a simple quote. How do I ignore this truth? I think I’m paying too much
for some stuff. Time to celebrate

Discardia again.

22 blogs that cost me too much:

• Boing Boing
• Blog things
• Dooce
• The Interdictor
• Gizmodo
• MAKE:Blog
• Cool Tools
• OhGizmo!
• Popgadget
• PC Magazine Tips and Solutions
• The Unofficial Google Weblog
• Ubergizmo
• MetaFilter
• Strange New Products
• UnwiredNews | The New Gadget Review
• Lifehack.org [NOT LIFEHACKER.COM... I CAN'T LET THAT GO.]
• 43 Folders
• To-Done
•  WorkHappy.net
• Coffehop
• Duct Tape Marketing
• seattlepi.com Buzzworthy

I’m deleting them from my feed reader. And posting them here in case my
withdrawals are too severe and I need to find them again.

Actually… I’m deleting a few more feeds. But I wouldn’t want to offend their
owners by posting them here. I’ve still got more than 33 left. I’ll have to
delete more later. Baby Steps.

What costs you too much? What can you throw away?

The St. Louis Cardinals are playing their last game in Busch Stadium on my husband’s birthday and I just got two tickets! The Springfield Cards had 100 tickets for sale. They sent out an email to their season ticket holders earlier today. The tickets sold out in one hour. I bought mine 55 minutes after the email was sent… Woohoo!

I told Jeremiah that his daddy is a hero. He doubted me. He said, “Daddy does wrong things sometimes. ” I assured him that even heroes make mistakes. He remained unconvinced. He repeated, “Daddy does wrong things sometimes. Sometimes Daddy gives us sugar at night!

I let Jeremiah stay up to late on Friday night. I told him that it was bad for kids to stay up that late. He looked up from his toys and replied, “Jesus’s friends stayed up all night.”¹

1. Grammar note: It is Jesus’s not Jesus’… in case you doubted me.

If you google Amy Maxwell is Stupid it leads to my post titled stupidity. In that post, I say that I’m haunted by stupid things I did 5, 10 or 15 years ago. If only I were so lucky. Today I’m haunted by a stupid thing I did exactly two months ago. Stupid. Do me a favor. Please google yourself and let me know if I’ve written any embarrassing thing about you that you’d like me to edit your name out of. [Not you Ron, we already know what I said about you...]

What I’m Listening to:
Clumsy
Deep Enough to Dream
Chris Rice

Lyrics:

You thing I’d have it down by now

Been practicin’ for thirty years

I should have walked a thousand miles

So what am I still doin’ here

Reachin’ out for that same old piece of forbidden fruit

I slip and fall and I knock my halo loose

Somebody tell me what’s a boy supposed to do?

Cause I get so clumsy

I get so foolish

I get so stupid

And then I feel so useless

But you’re sayin’ You love me

And you’re still gonna hold me

And that You wanna be near me

‘Cause You’re makin’ me holy

You’re still makin’ me holy, yeah

I’ve teamed up with Judi Murphy and Dave Rumley to help blog their two different disaster relief trips. They will be posting voice messages at our new Disaster Relief Audio Blog. Hopefully they’ll also get to interview a few people and occasionally borrow a camera phone to send pictures.

I’m still working on the web site. But you can already read about one of the teams and see the photo they just emailed me.

The address is gentlewhisper.com/relief. Podcast coming soon!