Book Review: The Power of Fun by Catherine Price

Encouraging you to have FUN with your goals has always been a hallmark of the PowerSheets® process—after all, if goal setting is mostly drudgery, duty, and boredom, who'd stick with it?! 

We do things differently around here. We know the truth about how goals really get accomplished—and how to actually follow through. The PowerSheets proven process works because it includes celebrating the small wins, focusing on what matters most, and lots of fresh starts along the way! And FUN, of course!

But, even though we know fun is an important part of goal setting, it can sometimes be hard for this community to prioritize it. Many of us are recovering perfectionists, we all have full lives, and sometimes our (good!) desire to make each moment intentional and meaningful edges out the lighthearted and silly. 

That's why I think Cultivators will love Catherine Price's book The Power of Fun. It's split into two parts. 

from California Pioneer Heritage Foundation Phone: 435-215-1417 or 530-308-3036 Email: cphf1@sbcglobal.net

One of the main purposes of the Mormon Battalion was to provide Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, Army of the West, with vital military manpower to back his assignment as military governor of Alta California. Kearny determined to employ his assets: The Mormon Battalion, 1st Dragoons, and 1st New York Volunteers (arrived by ship at Monterey, CA) to garrison duty at various key locations from San Diego to Los Angeles to put down any potential Mexican-Californio revolts to American occupation.

This is a classic "Phone Home" design. Because the NAT firewall blocks incoming connections to your Raspberry Pi, the Pi must be the one to initiate the conversation.

The Design Overview: Reverse SSH Tunneling

Think of this like a two-way bridge.

1. The Raspberry Pi (the client) initiates an outgoing connection to web3us.com (the relay).

2. Within that connection, the Pi tells the CentOS server: "Any traffic you receive on your local Port 2222, please forward it back through this tunnel to my Port 22."

3. When you want to access the Pi, you SSH into web3us.com and then SSH into that "forwarded" port.

Step 1: Set up Passwordless Login (Pi to CentOS)

For a tunnel to stay up automatically, the Pi must be able to log into your CentOS server without you typing a password every time.

Script that is called from Cron

cat /home/pi/send_ip.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') "
hostname -I | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/) printf "%s ", $i; print ""}'

Run this in Cron

$ crontab -e

# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12)
# |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed
#  0 8  *  *  * /opt/scripts/down.sh >> /home/pi/log/shade.log 2>&1
#  0 11  *  *  * /opt/scripts/up.sh >> /home/pi/log/shade.log 2>&1
1 7 * * * /home/pi/send_ip.sh | ssh shade@server "cat >> /home/shade/log/shade.log" 2>> /home/pi/cron_debug.log

Show the file on the server that logs the IP address each day

ls -l /home/shade/log
total 4
-rw-rw-rw- 1 shade shade 2519 Sep 19 07:40 shade.log

Show the contents of the shade.log file

$ cat shade.log

# log file for host IP of shade Raspberry Pi  Started out as 192.168.1.118 Jun 9, 2025

2026-02-11 08:21 | Int_IP: 192.168.86.52  | Public IP: 136.26.7.34
2026-02-11 16:05 | Int_IP: 192.168.86.52  | Public IP: 136.26.7.34
2026-02-11 17:21 | Int_IP: 192.168.104.227  | Public IP: 75.25.171.132
2026-02-11 18:05 | Int_IP: 192.168.104.227  | Public IP: 75.25.171.132

Get Internal and External IP and date and time

It appears that AI wants a table with either 24 or 25 cells and AI will get lost trying fill the table. With a smaller set like 6 letters is does not get lost and can be accurate, See my last example on this page

I have created infographics on subjects that are interesting to me.  I hope your enjoy them.

Jesus Christ	Scriptures	Mormon Battalion	Kids

by Robert Fulghum

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school. These are the things I learned.

Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson

From the Magazine (July–August 2012) Buy Copies

Summary.   Disruptive innovation has been a pioneering concept in business since 1995. Johnson, a founding partner at Clay Christensen’s investment firm, explains how you can apply disruptive thinking

The S Curve

Once you get past the initial upswing, the life cycle of a successful company takes on the form of a sigmoid, or S curve. The S shape represents growth over time—starting out slowly, picking up speed during rapid growth, then tapering off as growth slows.

My career path has been an unusual one. I started as a secretary on Wall Street, worked my way up in my firm’s investment banking group, and then stepped back to become an equity research analyst. Eight years later, I quit that job to produce a TV show and write a children’s book, but I ended up blogging about work/life issues and cofounding a hedge fund backed by a man I’d met at church. It’s not what you’d call a traditional corporate trajectory. But perhaps that’s the new normal.