Been at the condo for a couple hours already?  Made sure the plumbing fix has been working -- yep, everything is dry dry dry, dry wall, dry floor, dry tub, the plumber stopped the leaks.  Whew!  I've been low-level anxious since K left, that with him on the other coast I need to keep an eye on the condo from now on, I can't just leave it vacant for ( Read more... )

How many weeks ago did I have to pause my weightlifting because of all the basement prep?  And the related tricep injury from crawling around like a crab.  Well, I'm back at it this morning, after a great 4-mile hike with Dax.

Taking it easy on the weights as I always do after a break, but I'm adding one new exercise to the mix to work my pecs a bit ( Read more... )

I have spent more time with more people inside my personal space over the past two weeks than I have since before Quarantine began.  By far.  We've had a termite inspection, a crew of four doing construction in the basement, a crew of two fixing our water heater, and my sister -- all at the house.  I've had the front desk clerk and a plumber inside ( Read more... )

When I began modeling the Cum Deck, I figured an exact model would be impossible; I figured the interactions between the random orderings of the cards would allow me to estimate odds, but not determine the odds of a given deck configuration.  But after repeated tinkerings with my spreadsheet, I think I've finally created an exact model, and it is a ( Read more... )

It's tough to justify expanding my Quarantine Bubble to add a play partner when COVID-19 cases are hitting new records both nationally and locally.  Everybody predicted we'd have another wave of infections after kids returned to school and now we're about to have the great social mixing bowls of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve, which ( Read more... )

It is a deck of cards that is shuffled, and different cards have different powers, including powers to move cards between the deck and the discard pile, so the outcomes will be random and unpredictable ... but I did a bit of modeling and it looks like on average it would take over 200 days to get through the deck if I picked a card every day, with ( Read more... )

Dark mode is hitting hard now -- I'm no longer lit awake by the sun, so I'm sleeping past 7am.  But I've also been staying up later than usual, because T isn't here.

I'm firming up my plan to take Thursday and Friday off.  I'll make the request today.

The sense of being home alone has definitely sunk in now.  It's been a long time since T went away ( Read more... )

Still haven't caught up with T about money stuff, we've just been too busy, he had that class over the weekend, and it is finishing tonight.  I'm not concerned about myself, I had enough cash to cover the basement repair or I wouldn't have signed the contract -- but I cannot dig deeper into my wallet for my sister's surprise request until I've ( Read more... )

The past three afternoons, a cat has climbed into my lap while I've meditated in the Media Cave.

And not the same cat each time!

Cats are great at meditation :-)

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I've got the idea for my first song of this music creation cycle.  Some vocals, simple lyrics, so I'll need to record my voice.  I wrote down the basics of the lyrics in a note on my ( 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... )