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May 22nd, 2018
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It's been a while since my last phlog*. I've been wanting to get
back on gopher and do some serious plain text awesomeness, or at
least comment on the really cool happenings around the space. Cat,
love your diet, tell me more! How are you and your partner going
to handle it when you go back down under? Sparkipx, how's Felix
holding up now that you've been able to ride for a couple weeks?
Is it harder to do long distances on a folding bike than
a non-folding one? I've never tried one before. jynx, I'm totally
fascinated by single player RPGs and I need to go back through and
read up on your stuff. Tabletop role-playing is my #1 activity of
awesome, and that sounds stellar. horsemans has a cool gopher
wishlist that you guys should check out. I bet you can offer a lot
of responses there. [0]
[0] horesmans - gopher wishlist
Several of you are on vacation or soon returning. Welcome back and
all that. I hope you'll share insights and adventures. I love
travel stories so much. Hell, I love STORIES so much. tfurrows,
I'll be checking out Variations soon! Oh, and I have a Fiskers
push-mower and it's badass. I have to use it twice a week or the
grass grows too long for it to be effective. That part sucks. But
if you have a really small lawn, it's so nice to be able to handle
it quietly and "naturally".
Recently I've been absorbed in a string of poor projects at work
that have been eating up my mental energies. The work isn't hard,
but the clients have been difficult. I've been avoiding
unnecessary computer time as a way of disconnecting. Marry that up
with some unexpected (but welcome) consulting work, and my time
became even more short. Mostly, though, the thing that's kept me
away is a rededication to that principle I mentioned in recent
posts, deliberate practice.
I've been working on my shakuhachi quite a bit, and even met with
my kali instructor in the park at the side of a lake for
a fantastic jam in the rain. He built me a new shakuhachi, which
is just fantastic. It's a 1.9 (slightly deeper sound than the
standard 1.8) jin nashi flute and it's absolutely perfect. I'll be
sewing a new case for it soon, and an extra for him as well in
thanks.
I've also been walking a shit-ton. Every morning I wake at 6:35
and head outside to walk 2 to 2.5 miles on the canal towpath that
is the road I live on. Each evening, after putting my son to bed,
I head back outside and do another 2 miles. Sometimes I zip around
the neighborhood for a change of scenery. Sometimes I head into
town and walk the sidewalks. Most often I stay next to the canal
where I know the landscape features that mark my distance by
heart. I pop headphones in and binge audiobooks while I'm out
there. It's heaven.
Walking is a "keystone habit" for me, a term I learned from that
book on Habits with the yellow cover that I can't remember the
name of. When I walk, I do other good things as well. I eat well,
I sleep well, I think clearly. If I don't walk, holding on to the
other things is more difficult. So, walking rocks!
Hopefully I'll have more to share soon. In the meantime, I need to
go for a walk.
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* I have a pet peeve about when people waste time in blogs and
phlogs talking about how they haven't posted in a long time.
That's the nature of the medium and the repetitive act of
explaining or apologizing for it serves no purpose except to make
you self-conscious. Now here I am doing it myself. Stupid.
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