Snow driving

Teaching a teenager to drive can be a harrowing experience. You've got to remember what it was like when you learned to drive, the overall rules, you got to be observant enough for the both of you, and most of all you have to have patience lots and lots of patience. A blizzard came through this weekend so I'm teaching my 14-year-old how to drive. Pray that I survive.


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Location:50th St,West Des Moines,United States

Trimming Content

I have way too much content to listen to. Currently I have about 50-60 hours of podcasts per week to listen to. I need to trim that down to a manageable level.


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He survived

Well, he survived. Not sure how. He was trying to get away with not doing his homework so that he could spend more time playing video games. So we laid down the law. Until he brings his grades up, no games on school days or if he has unfinished homework. If he fails to bring up his grades, no games until he does.

I hate to do that to him, but he has to learn.


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Kill the kid?

So this us a heck of a way to test a blogging app for the iPhone. I just got a call from my oldest boy's school. Appearantly he hasn't been doing his homework. So what do I do about this?

If it was just laziness I would just harass him into doing his work. Or possibly ground him. But there's the added complication that he has been telling us that he has been doing his homework. In our house, lying has always carried greater punishment. This is going to require some thought.


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Games and getting serious

I often wonder if I really serious about running my own business. I seem to spend an awful lot of time playing games instead of working on the business. I need to stop playing many of the games I am playing and start focusing on the business.

Being a Polymath

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

A polymath (Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much")[1] is a person whose expertise fills a significant number of subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today’s standards.[2]

One of the problems with being a polymath is that people tend not to beleive that you actually have knowledge in so many areas. You end up being veiwed as a "know-it-all" which implies that you don't really know what you're talking about.

Up to now, I've been focusing on one are that I really enjoy. That is, Computers. But I have other areas of focus that I'm good at. I need to start doing business with those areas too. I'm going to focus mostly on technology because MidwestGuru can be used as a blanket company for all things tech. But I'm going to start up other companies for other areas as time goes on.

Startup headaches

It's been a long slow road starting up a company from scratch. Especially doing it the way I've been doing it. That is, debt free. I'm finally getting to a point where I have the tools I need and will be starting to actually earn money. All the income up to this point has been sunk into tools and advertising. Thus, there hasn't been a net profit yet.