Had Moose over last night for delivery food and a movie in the basement -- was fun!  Today T returns and the long summer of him being away 4/5 of the time is over.  The house might feel loud & crowded for the next couple weeks, heh.  I made it!  Whew!  How long until I'm craving Time to Self again ( Read more... )

I did feel anxious upon arriving at the house yesterday, but it seemed to be due to my worrying about flooding and power outages -- although my heart rate was elevated upon arrival, it settled down after a while and then I was sleepy -- fell asleep normally on the big bed with my new body pillow, slept a normal amount, fell back asleep after my ( Read more... )

how did a text from K turn me from a news junkie to cold turkey and it's fine

but favorite quote of today,

"It's not about you"

I still think nobody writes like this

Why must I spend two hours going back and forth today?  There's no reason for it, nothing good will come of it!  Sigh ( Read more... )

Feels like the week is going by slowlyThis morning I want to go on a walk and then lift weights.  Might be another slow work day -- it seems lots of people are on vacation with families so the workflow has slowed WAY DOWN.  It will probably pick up abruptly when people return after the 4th ( Read more... )

Who is in charge of contact tracing the President and First Lady?

Even under the rules of my news blackout, there's no way I could've avoided this news.  Twitter sent me this news item as a notification on my phone.  T poked his head into my bedroom the moment I turned on my light to tell me.  And to get to the NYT Print Edition I usually first go ( Read more... )

I dunno, 30 minutes of zazen per day seems sustainable so far?  Feels like a manageable chunk of time.  At least while I'm working from home during Quarantine.  Yeah, let's stick with 30 minutes until After the Vaccine.  Which is enough minutes for me to fall all the way into my zazen trance, if not to fall asleep entirely, regardless of the time ( Read more... )

The square root of 2 is a beautiful thing :-)

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Wikipedia's English main page leaks a small amount of news ("In the news"), but it's global and nonpartisan.  I'm thinking I don't need the Canadian:World Google News headlines for general updates if I've got Wikipedia's home page.

Somehow I failed to start my meditation timer this morning, I thought ( Read more... )

The news blackout is holding well enough.  It's not 100%, but it is a huge difference from before.  I'm still getting a bit of news from the following sources:

(1) whatever T tells me directly during our conversations

(2) Google News headlines, not logged in, pretending I live in Canada, and looking only at "world" headlines -- I only had to shift ( Read more... )