Simpleology--No, not Scientology--Simpleology

There's an internet marketer, author, and amateur but accomplished philosopher/thinker named Mark Joyner. He's got lots of irons in the fire online, but one that I think would be interesting and beneficial to most people is called Simpleology, "The Simple Science of Getting What You Want."

At one level it's a self-organization, task-managing system, a glorified TODO list system. But it's also much more than that, because it's carefully and shrewdly design to help you step around a lot of the potholes and boulders and subtler monsters that prevent people from getting organized, motivated, and getting things done. Check it out: www.simpleology.com

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.

The preceding paragraph is some code for a piece of blogging coursework that I'm wanting to check it out.

Restarting Posting

Many moons have gone by since I last posted here. I did an owner-build project building my house, and instead of the 7 months I planned, it took nearly twice as long. Boy am I glad to be done!

We're west of Dripping Springs, in the hill country west of Austin, and north of San Antonio. Lynda and I are gradually getting settled in. Enjoying having lots of interesting places to go that are nearby. Dallas is relatively limited in that area--the countryside around there just doesn't compare to here.

Sunday we drove over to Fredericksburg, which while a little touristy, is really a neat little town, with lots of old buildings among the oldest in the state.

I've been doing another blog about my ownerbuilding project, hosted at http://www.ownerbuildbook.com/. The full address for my particular blog there is http://www.ownerbuilderbook.com/blogs/users/PennsmithLostValleyTX.aspx

The whole site is a rich deposit of intelligence on how to build your own house, to save money and to insure better quality. There's over 20,000 pages. Anybody who wants to build a house, and has some time flexibility, and at least average common sense, should seriously consider being an owner-builder.

Here's a few pictures from my project: