Something new

Saw this quote on Twitter today, and it sums up my feelings for knowledge.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This past weekend, I learned quite a bit at the nursery picking out plants for the front yard. Whether or not I can keep any of them alive has yet to be seen, but we'll do what we can. Sometimes I think the greatest thing I could do to protect nature is to stop buying plants!

I've bought a new paint set and some canvases and will be painting again soon. It's only through interpreting what you see into an image of your own that you learn to see what's really there. I'm going to try my hand at Japanese brush art, too. I was never very good at watercolors, so I'm hoping I've learned more patience at this point in my life.

On the technical side, I'm still working at PHP and XML, though I don't have as much time for it. I've gotten to play with JavaScript lately, and that's always fun to explore. So much versatility there! I'm learning some of the more advanced features of SaxoTech, creating widgets in Flash and organizing the site structure for another site redesign.


Right now, I'm going to go study the backs of my eyelids after a few pages of my latest read, "Lost in a Good Book." It's the second Thursday Next novel.


Old Ralph was definitely on to something. What have you learned lately?