Day 2015: There are two sides to every adventure

Yesterday, when I was having adventures, I saw this:

Last night, there were two sides to my adventures with my non-responsive laptop at the Apple Store. On one side of the store, we met the multi-sided Apple Genius Niko (who writes children’s adventure books on the side).

Niko is showing us his smiling side there. When he looked at my well-worn laptop (which has been by my side for years of blogging adventures), he showed his concerned and worried side. When I told him that my son and I had likely accidentally switched our look-alike chargers, he said the higher wattage of my son’s charger might have been too adventurous and powerful for the charging side of my little laptop.

Here’s the side of my son’s charger:

Here’s the side of my laptop’s charger:

Watt a difference 15 watts can make. The adventures of my little laptop are over. On the one side, I’m going to miss that little adventurous laptop. On the other side, I’m getting a new, faster blogging machine on the other side of two days.

When I was having adventures on two sides of Boston’s Downtown Crossing yesterday, I recorded two musical performances with my adventurous iPhone:

There are at least two sides to every photo I share here:

I’m always having a nice day when I can express thanks to all who help me create this blog and — of course! — to YOU.

Day 1975: How we make each other feel

How do you make others feel?  How do others make you feel?

How does this sign make you feel?

Actually, I feel like we (humans and, perhaps, pizzas) are all responsible for our own feelings.  In other words, nobody can really “make” someone else feel anything. (Although we can make pizza.)   Our feelings are our own — we can’t blame others for how we feel. However, people affect each other’s feelings, in many ways.

So, if you feel

• inadequate,
• sure,

• welcome,

• unwelcome,

 

• peaceful,

• good,

• coerced,

• threatened or any other feeling, ask yourself some questions.

Who might be affecting me? What am I feeling?  Why?  Do I wear those feelings well or are those feelings wearing me out?  What can I do about this?

Yesterday, Tim

at the Apple Genius Bar

affected my feelings and my son’s feelings very positively.  While Tim didn’t make me feel like a genius, he was a genius at his job.  Naturally, I made my positive feelings known to Tim and to Tim’s manager.

Speaking of naturally, here‘s Aretha Franklin telling everybody how she feels in 2015:

Feel free to express any feelings you have in a comment, below.

As always, I feel very grateful to all who helped me create this post and — of course! — to YOU.