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How Do You Feel Today? 3 Steps to a Better Relationship

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Something happens in relationships when you get close to people, doesn’t it? You have more power to hurt the people closest to you and more ability to be hurt by the people closest to you. What happens when you do that?

A stone wall would be a good metaphor for the response that usually follows an emotional disappointment or sting. Once that wall goes up, someone or both of you are apt to stop communicating your feelings. According to statistics, usually one person has no problem whatsoever with talking about feelings (good and bad) while the other retreats at the thought of talking about anything more personal than the weather that affected them that day. Why should knowing how someone feels make any difference to how couples get along on a day to day basis?

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Back to the Basics #4: 7 Steps to Reconnect with an old friend (in 30 minutes or less)

Today is a two’fer Monday!

My good friend and brother in heart, Phil Gerbyshak over at Make it Great! He’s quite the Relationship Geek that he claims to be; he really lives up to it with 500+ relationships on his LinkedIn profile. He’s a prolific writer and author of 10 Ways to Make It Great! and currently working on a second book. Without further ado from me, read up and read on!

Previously on Back to the Basics:
Back to the Basics #1: The Golden Rule
Back to the Basics #2: Be Grateful for What You Have
Back to the Basics #3: One Step Back to a Better World

7 Steps to Reconnect with an old friend (in 30 minutes or less)

Too often in today’s digital age, we go all high tech on our conversations. We’ve got Twitter, and Facebook, and MySpace, and on and on and on. But let’s get back to our basics. How do we have a simple conversation with someone we haven’t seen in a while anymore?

OK, so you’re busy. Me too. So how do you reconnect with an old friend, in 30 minutes or less, over a cup of coffee? More »

Back to the Basics #3: One Step Back to a Better World

I have asked several of my new bloggy friends and mentors to offer their own view out the window of getting back to the basics over the next couple of weeks. Here is the first guest installment for my Back to Basics series. Every now and then, we all need to go back to the basics.

To catch up of the first two issues of this series, visit:

Back to the Basics #1: The Golden Rule
Back to the Basics #2: Be Grateful for What You Have

Guest post by Terry Starbucker from Ramblings From a Glass Half Full. To quote his profile, he is a “Service Company Executive and a Founder of SOBCon, enjoying his business trips to the Rockies and keepin’ it positive.” I know him better than that… as a patient, helpful, joy-filled husband and traveler. If you are ever stuck in an airport, look for Terry and sit down and spend some time with him. It will be one of the best times of your life. Time to get on with the show!

How can we go backwards to go forward?

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Zachary Quinto Named the New Spock

There is a new Star Trek coming out, and Zachary Quinto is going to play Spock, along with Leonard Nimoy. It appears that Nimoy will play Spock as an old man (duh!) and Quinto will play the majority of the role as the story would mostly be a flashback.

For those of you who don’t watch 40 hours of TV per week, Quinto is best known as the bad guy, Sylar, in Heroes. While it wasn’t revealed who will play the young James T. Kirk alongside William Shatner, director JJ Abrams’ announcement of Nimoy returning nearly brought down the house at the San Diego Comic-Con.

SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo May Have Setbacks After Explosion

An explosion during testing of nitrous oxide for components in the upcoming SpaceShipTwo killed 3 people so far, with others injured. The blast happened at a Scaled Composites facility in the Mojave Desert called the Mojave Air and Space Port.

Burt Rutan, the aerospace designer, was not present at the time, but came as soon as possible and was visibly distraut while talking to reporters, and would not release any names until the families were notified.

He verified that the nitrous oxide was at room temperature and under pressure and confirmed that it was not a new test, but had been performed numerous times for SpaceShipOne.

This may cause problems for SpaceShipTwo, a Virgin Galactic project under the control of Richard Branson. The plan is to give tourists rides into space for $200,000, something unthinkable when the space programs were in their infancy. Space was something to be tackled by nations, not private corporations.

General Patton Speaks Out Against All That Is Stupid

I’ll bet most of us have seen the classic film ‘Patton’ with General Patton played by George C. Scott. Mike Kaminski is a professional Voice talent/Actor/Producer and Standup Comedian from the Tampa area where this blog broadcasts from. He is truly one of the most skilled voice imitators on the planet and can change his voice at the drop of a hat. You must check him out.

Anyway, he dubbed his voice over the famous Patton speech from the film himself. He spent 2 weeks going over the wording to perfect what he wanted to say and then spent a month editing the DVD of the movie to fit the mouthing as best he could.

This is NOT work safe, as he does use a few expletives, but it is nothing out of character for the movie. Consider it rated PG-13 to R. You’ve been warned.

“Awe-inspiring performance! General George S. Patton out of retirement, rants about Iraq and the modern world situation!!“

Pool Stolen… 1,000 Gallons of Water, Too

Daisy Valdivia woke up Wednesday morning to take out the recycling, only to discover that their 10 foot, 1,000 gallon pool was missing from the back yard. What is stranger yet is that there is no evidence of what happened to the water.

Investigators say it was not dumped, pumped, drunk, or evaporated. The heist (if you can call it that) happened in a mere 4 hours between 1 am and 5 am without making enough noise to call attention to their activities.

The take-away line from the whole story:

“I just want to know what the heck they did with the water.”

Read the whole story: Pool stolen from Paterson yard