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Move your feet | |
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. | |