Tag: coping

Today’s coping tip is to enjoy new music today: play, sing, dance, or listen.

I’m on the road this week, so it’s music for me. Not a lot of time to play, and I don’t sing or dance well (or at all if I can avoid it).

Before I travel, I usually download an artist or two and try to listen to some new music. For this journey, I picked an older artist that I haven’t listened to much and a new one.

For the older one, I went with Santana. I’ve heard a few of his popular songs, but never really listened to much music so I grabbed the This is Santana playlist on Spotify as well as Blessings and Miracles.

For the new one, I’ve been catching Nicki Minaj on some other compilations, so I grabbed The Pinkprint and Beam Me Up Scotty.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to discover your artistic side. Design a friendly greeting card.

A fun one for me today. I saw this just after returning from the PASS Data Community Summit. Since I had some fun with pictures, I decided to make a themed card: using Lego Steve.

Happy Holidays!

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to learn a new skill from a friend or share one of yours with them.

I like learning, so in this case, I took advantage of my daughter being home. I asked her to help me adjust some photos and explain how and why she made changes. She’s working on a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography, so I thought this might help me grab some better shots at events.

The original photo:

The adjusted one:

One thing she is passionate about is good framing, so you can’t crop if you didn’t do a good job at the beginning.

Not sure I’ll follow that advice, but I do think about it.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s coping tip is to make a meal using a recipe or ingredient you’ve not tried before.

It’s the holidays, and my daughter is home. She’s GF, so I’m trying to make: Gluten Free Pfeffernusse Cookies

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server Central newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.