Wednesday morning
It "felt like" 2° outside as I woke this morning. After peeing I went to the sunroom to check on the temperature there -- the space heater did its job of keeping temps in the 40s. I could temporarily bring the six plants all the way inside, instead.
Otherwise I'll need to run the space heater again tonight, and at night over the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). This will keep me tethered to the house, because I can't justify leaving a space heater on if I'm not at the house, that feels too dangerous somehow.
We'll probably have another similar-sized snowfall Thursday night and into Friday. I probably won't be running outside again until sometime next week.
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I'm enjoying having the house to myself this morning, I'm still in bed :-) When I do finally get out of bed (around 8am?) I'll stretch before breakfast, and then I'll plan to lift weights in the basement at some point. I expect B to come over tonight.
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This morning I'm pondering where my faith in democracy comes from and whether democracy replaced God when I became an atheist. Gotta believe in something, eh? It's tough for me to take the next step and become a nihilist.
I think it is part of my "act as though it matters" orientation? My "work toward having the life/world I want" orientation? Which feels like replacing faith in God with faith in myself/people/reality.
Some people talk about how important it is to believe in something larger than yourself, but this could be simple egoism, part of our denial of death, our denial of how small we are compared to the known universe and its known time scale.
All I can do is act within each moment. And now, in this moment, I should stretch.
Otherwise I'll need to run the space heater again tonight, and at night over the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). This will keep me tethered to the house, because I can't justify leaving a space heater on if I'm not at the house, that feels too dangerous somehow.
We'll probably have another similar-sized snowfall Thursday night and into Friday. I probably won't be running outside again until sometime next week.
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I'm enjoying having the house to myself this morning, I'm still in bed :-) When I do finally get out of bed (around 8am?) I'll stretch before breakfast, and then I'll plan to lift weights in the basement at some point. I expect B to come over tonight.
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This morning I'm pondering where my faith in democracy comes from and whether democracy replaced God when I became an atheist. Gotta believe in something, eh? It's tough for me to take the next step and become a nihilist.
I think it is part of my "act as though it matters" orientation? My "work toward having the life/world I want" orientation? Which feels like replacing faith in God with faith in myself/people/reality.
Some people talk about how important it is to believe in something larger than yourself, but this could be simple egoism, part of our denial of death, our denial of how small we are compared to the known universe and its known time scale.
All I can do is act within each moment. And now, in this moment, I should stretch.