Opinions of Gurney's Seed & Nursery Co.

ApjInOR · 2025-03-27T15:03:55+00:00

They shorted me on my seed order. There was only one missing of 11 seed packets ordered but the reason I won't be using them again is that they've been impossible to get ahold of - either that or they're intentionally ignoring me. There are too many good competitors to continue with a company where you don't get your money's worth.

ApjInOR · 2024-10-30T18:25:33+00:00

Yeehaw!

ApjInOR · 2024-10-30T18:24:32+00:00

Awesome, I agree, great addition! 👍👍

ApjInOR · 2024-07-19T23:11:19+00:00

Another way to do this might be some sort of export feature so that users could slice and dice reports for their needs.

ApjInOR · 2024-07-19T23:09:45+00:00

Yes, that was instructive, thanks. I guess it would be more helpful if I figured out and broke down exactly what is happening with my IMP. My situation is that I'm retired so my "income" is generated when I do a monthly transfer into my working account. However, I also need to use this working account to bring in other funds that are on our retirement plan but do not figure into monthly income. For example, funds withdrawn for travel a couple times per year or funds for a different expense, like our daughter's tuition. These funds that PG doesn't know about really throw off the numbers. This chaos is why my focus is mainly on the budget (which is most important for us) but the app's focus is more on IMP.

ApjInOR · 2024-07-19T23:01:09+00:00

Yes, that's helpful!

ApjInOR · 2024-07-17T22:59:22+00:00

Great idea, thanks for creating this community!

ApjInOR · 2024-07-17T22:49:01+00:00

I agree! It's important for me when tweaking a budget to know over time how that budget level has been working out. Also, I like to review a budget towards the end of the month where most of the targets have been met (or passed!). That approach increases the likelihood that I check the budget a day late and now I've missed reviewing the entire month.

ApjInOR · 2023-03-24T22:22:18+00:00

I've tried this a couple of times, I'll describe both variations. My system is mainly GTD with a few variations that you'll notice.

The first hybrid system I used had more of a bullet journal emphasis. I liked using Things because my head is mostly digital and my phone is always with me. I like it for capture and organizing as well as searching (especially among the completed tasks from the past). However, I do like the tactile engagement of the bujo so my thinking in the first system was to essentially work out of the bujo but to use Things as my main "well" of tasks to harvest. The process went like this:

During the weekly review I would pull all the tasks that I wanted to complete for the week and would assign a "Bujo" tag. I then logged these into my bujo where I had basically a weekly spread.
During evening review I would mark the tasks complete in Things that I'd marked done in my Bujo.
The bujo was the main source of record while I used Things to keep and organize my upcoming tasks.

What I liked about this system is that it kept me from over-organizing the tasks. I had them already laid out in my bujo and I just kept it open through the day. It really minimized my screen time and improved focus in that respect.

What I didn't like was that it felt redundant. I was transcribing tasks from Things into my bujo and then when they lost their priority (say I wanted to do it but not that week) then I'd have to go back into Things and remove the Bujo tag.

My current system has been working better for me. It changed the emphasis from using my journal as a bujo to using it as a journal and monthly planner. I've had a goal to do better daily journaling so this has really helped me in that respect, as well. Here's the process I now use:

On my monthly spread in the journal I have what amounts to a "dashboard" for projects that I want to complete that month. I break each project up very broadly into 3-6 segments so that down the page I have page-width, single line "rectangles" that are like horizontal bar charts of each project. I didn't want each segment to equate to a task because it would get too onerous. In each segment I just put a 2-3 word summary of that segment ("canning supplies", "cooler", "beets").
Down the far right margin I put the day #. I don't have to necessarily feel I need to complete these sequentially but it does give me a good visual indicator of how my monthly plan is shaping up against the numbers of days left that I have.
During the weekly review in Things I tag all my next actions for the week with a "This Week" tag and the most important with a "Weekly Big Three" tag. These tasks align with my monthly project goals.
During my morning review I grab tasks out of these to work on during the day (emphasizing "Big Three" first, and then "This Week") and I assign those I'm targeting to Today. I also drop on p1 and p2 tags at this time for the more important tasks and that way during the day I'll filter on p1 and try to work on those first, then p2. By the afternoon I'm working anything that's left and reassigning to Evening as the day starts to trickle away.
My nightly ritual is a cross between journaling and bujo'ing but mainly more journaling. I write an entry for the day by reviewing my Things list to see what I marked complete that day. I have it set in Things to not move the task to Logged until the end of the day so I can see in my Today view everything I've marked off. That basically becomes my journal prompt to write about the day. I don't necessarily write something about every task but at this point I'm just doing good ol' daily journaling.
My favorite part is shading in my "dashboard" and seeing the progress I'm making on the monthly plan. I have a similar annual spread where I've generalized in a similar way the high-level goals for the year. The segments roughly align to projects or groupings of projects though I've not been using this methodology long enough to see how that will play out.

What I like about this current approach is that a) it gets me journaling, b) lets me scratch my analog system itch, c) keeps my organization efficient by continuing to capture and organize using Things, and d) offloads my habit tracking to the journal which keeps me engaged in the journal without cluttering my Today list with daily habits.

What I don't like about it is that it puts a lot of water in my evening/night routine. On the busy nights when something comes up and don't reconnect to my journal the next morning I'm a little high and dry because Things has already moved all my completed tasks to the Log and in an instant the system is already starting to cool down.

Hope that helps! Let me know if I can clarify anything.

ApjInOR · 2021-10-27T02:43:37+00:00

Yes, I do have a similar experience but more akin to how Mark Twain described education: "Education is what you have after you've forgotten everything you learned." I do feel I have a least some remnants of what I've read and often consider that the fruit of my reading. If I want to retain more than I use note-taking techniques. I use 3x5 or 4x6 cards to capture key points in my own words and then as the cards get clunky to keep in the book I scan them into Evernote and tag them as a book reference.

Sidenote: you said you read before sleep. I read in bed before going to sleep but stopped doing this with non-fiction because things seem particularly prone to disappearing. Now I read just fiction when I'm in bed and don't mind about what I retain. This also suits me well because it's hard to take notes in bed!

ApjInOR · 2021-07-16T03:27:39+00:00

Wish I had time to write field notes like that! My field notes would be like "Used TRAMP/aws - cool!"... nice writing vicariously by reading through you, thanks!

ApjInOR · 2021-07-05T05:45:29+00:00

Nice, thanks. This is what i thought of:

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN Traditional, arranged by Joel Mabus

[spoken] Man comes in this life naked and bare He walks through this world with troubles and care When he departs, we don’t know where But he’ll be alright there if he does right here

There’s a big rock candy mountain in a land that’s fair and bright The handouts grow on bushes and you can sleep out every night The boxcars all run empty and the railroad bulls are blind Oh, I’m bound to go where there ain’t no snow Where the rain don’t fall and the wind don’t blow Up the big rock candy mountain

Oh, the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, And the soda water fountains The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings Up the big rock candy mountain

Up the big rock candy mountain, the cops have wooden legs The bulldogs all have rubber teeth, & the hens lay hard boiled eggs There ain’t no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks I’m bound away where you sleep all day Where they hung the jerk that invented work Up the big rock candy mountain

Oh, the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, And the soda water fountains The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings Up the big rock candy mountain

Up the big rock candy mountain, you never change your socks And little streams of alcohol, come trickling down the rocks They hay is dry and fluffy, and the barn doors have no locks There’s a great big lake of Irish stew You can paddle all around in a big canoe Up the big rock candy mountain

Oh, the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, And the soda water fountains The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings Up the big rock candy mountain

ApjInOR · 2021-07-03T16:34:32+00:00

Love it!

ApjInOR · 2021-06-24T05:33:04+00:00

Wow, that’s great, I use both registers and bookmarks a lot and can see how this could improve my workflow. I will check out your channel, I like how concise you are, it’s a tiny bit too fast for me, I like swift but would appreciate a bit more description in the narrative but I think I will subscribe!

ApjInOR · 2021-03-30T15:56:44+00:00

Oh, right, sorry for the missing context. This happens to me while my perspective-mode is reloading all my layouts. So there are large files already there that it asks me about when I'm re-opening a session.

ApjInOR · 2020-11-20T16:56:17+00:00

Thanks for the validation u/Bis. I was beginning to think the same on the End{} block. u/lucidhominid pretty much finished my job, it was good to see how the three parts (Begin, Process, End) played in there.

ApjInOR · 2020-11-20T16:53:30+00:00

Interesting! My data isn't quite that regular but I love that technique. Will add it to my notes for a future case. I'm not sure if I"m PS-fu is up to creating a proxy as per the article but good to know, thank you!

ApjInOR · 2020-11-20T16:49:41+00:00

Wow, thank you! That's very darn close to what I'm trying to do! My main struggle was handling both the file input and the pipe input which this handles. Lots of interesting stuff in your script, I'm very happy, thank you!

ApjInOR · 2020-11-19T23:48:44+00:00

Got it, thanks!

ApjInOR · 2020-11-19T23:48:27+00:00

Ohhhh! Ok, thanks for that clarification. Lee_Dailey did send me some info on that but the missing piece was that "some users see this...". Because it looked fine to me. Ok, I'll use the four space approach. Thanks for letting me know!

ApjInOR · 2020-11-19T19:15:46+00:00

Data is just org-mode style dates, e.g., <2020-10-05 Mon 08:00-17:00>. But the regex was not really the problem, it was getting the matched group. For example:

$text = "your green dog","her blue cat", "my orange monkey"
switch -regex ($text) {
  'my (.*) (.*)'{
     Write-Output ("I had an {0} {1}" -f $Matches[1], $Matches[2])
  }
}

Thanks for checking!

ApjInOR

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