Ron Delaney Jr

Friday Morning FYI – 6/17/2016

June 17, 2016 Ron Delaney JrLeave a comment

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to reconnect with a friend I hadn’t seen since last summer. Over some wonderful food and drinks, she asked: “What’s the best thing that’s happened to you this year?” What a fantastic thing to ask! That leads us to this week’s FYI:

Positivity is a choice. It’s not always an easy or an apparent choice, but it’s a choice. So is being honestly interested in someone else and what makes them happy. When someone makes that choice with you, appreciate it because it happens less than it should.

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 6/10/2016

June 10, 2016 Ron Delaney JrLeave a comment

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

In my younger years, I pirated stuff off the internet. Music and software mostly. I was young and money-less and got sucked into the pit of “Screw them, they want too much for this.” I’m not proud of having done that and don’t do it anymore, though I do know people who routinely steal content (yes, downloading for free is stealing – what else do you call taking something without compensation?). It’s wrong on every level, and can have impacts far beyond the money you think that content’s creator won’t miss, as thoroughly explained by this post by Sarah Madison over on her BLOG. That brings us to this week’s FYI:

I get it, HBO is expensive. So is Photoshop, the latest hardcover book by your favorite author, and whatever album you just have to listen to. But high cost doesn’t mean you have a right to consume any of those things for free, and more to the point, it doesn’t mean the creators shouldn’t benefit financially from their work. Yes, work. Writing a book is work. Filming a show is work. Not charity, not free art, work. You get compensated for your work, so should they.

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 6/3/2016

June 3, 2016 Ron Delaney JrLeave a comment

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

I’m writing this to you from my favorite coffee shop, on a morning where I had day job work to do, to shop for some fishing tackle (rw shopping, not interwebz shopping), and to pack for a weekend camping trip. Why am I mentioning this? Because I got the work and packing done before 9AM, came to the coffee shop to write, and will go buy my tackle in a few minutes. In fact I’m only taking the time to write this post because I’m done writing for today (seven hundred words to finish a chapter). Nuts? Not at all. That’s this week’s FYI:

JK Rowling said, “Be ruthless about protecting your writing days…” I all too often hear writers complain about having “… just too much else to do.” Bull. There’s a lot of hours in the day. I know writers who get words down at 5AM. Get up earlier, have some coffee and breakfast, and get typing.

Or do you presume to tell JK she’s wrong?

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 5/27/2016

May 28, 2016 Ron Delaney JrLeave a comment

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI (I’m late because I’ve been fighting f*cking torx bolts since Thursday edition) – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

In case you didn’t know, summer has popped here in the north east. As a fall/winter guy, normally I’d be unhappy about that, but I’ve been waiting for it to get warm ever since I bought my jeep late last year. The long weekend seemed the perfect time to take the doors off and the roof down, but the makers of my jeep had a dark surprise for me, named LockTite, which holds the torx nuts in place unless you’re friggin Superman (who’d still probably strip the damn things trying to get them out). I’m sure the folks at Jeep have a fine reason for using LockTite, but for those of us who just want to take our doors off (the problem is relocating the side mirrors), it’s a royal pain. That leads us to this week’s FYI:

Good intentions only get you so far. In everything you do, you must also consider the consequences, especially when others are involved.

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

PS – If you think I’m being dramatic about some stupid bolts, you’re right. Go try and work them yourself and tell me how it goes 🙂

Sexy

May 23, 2016May 24, 2016 Ron Delaney JrLeave a comment

I was thinking about being in the woods and camp fires and the way people use sexy to mean attractive in some way, and this little run-on sentence crawled around in my ear until I wrote it down. I liked the rhythm in it, so decided an impromptu post was in order.

I think you’re sexy but not in an I want to have sex with you way, in a way that if I was sitting around a campfire with my friends and you came out of the woods and asked if we had any tea I’d say “Sure, little tree, join our circle,” and we’d all talk until we fell asleep under the stars and the next morning I’d wake up and you’d be gone and that would be OK.

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}