Category: Daily Life

There are days that I cannot help but wonder if choosing sobriety wasn’t the biggest mistake of my life

You must be perfect all the time. Anything less is unacceptable.

I slept with earplugs in last night. Woke several times thinking I’d lost my hearing.

I looked at my watch this morning to see the temperature was 17°. I’m thrilled to say I didn’t even think about Fahrenheit. Without a conversion, no math, no thinking about the other temperature, I just knew what 17°C means for my comfort. Also without math I instinctively knew it to be 65°F…but I didn’t need to think about it that way because Celsius now has meaning to me like learning a new language eventually just becomes natural.

I cleaned my desk last night and not only do I feel more focused, I feel more relaxed.

Ask a ninja is back!

We interrupt this day to see if I can find a desk under all the stuff that has been accumulating upon it

Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion in head without math 92% accuracy

In the chaos that is the collapse of the United States, we feel the pressure to prepare for the coming recession. We are limited in time, and money, and space. I want to be growing food but don’t have a greenhouse. I want to be ready to taken in people into my home but we are out of space. I want to be able to have potable water on hand, and generate my own power, and have plenty of food in storage but I don’t have the means.

I will do what I can with what little I have. I will be calculating in my planning. We will survive.

So apparently Hooters is going tits up

When I was a child, I never understood why my father took vacations to work. Now, as an adult, I want nothing more than to take a vacation just to catch up.

“It’s said that ‘power corrupts,’ but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.”
? David Brin, The Postman

Sometimes cleaning is simply about rediscovering what you own. Remember to clean your mind as you would your house.

It was so easy to let go

All I’ve ever tried to do is bring goodness into the world. Must I be punished for that?