Student: “I can do better.”
Master: “To do better, you must first make mistakes.”
What’s your emergency?
Noticed my phone becoming burning hot in my pocket. Turns out I pocket dialed 911 for 40 minutes. Mea culpa emergency services.
Sleep is such a nuisance
It’s that time of night where I debate pulling an all-nighter to complete my commitments or decide to get some rest and wake early. That waking early is the gamble but staying up is almost an assurance that I’ll pay for it for the next 3 days. I really wish I could stay awake a solid month. I’d accomplish so much!
When you are gone, you won’t know
Seems lately I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about what I would say at various funerals. All I can really say is several of you really, I mean really, do not want me speaking at your funeral.
Words of wisdom
Never say “It cannot possibly get any worse.” You have no idea the power of the demons that incantation releases.
Need a week of sleep
I’m so tired my brain hurts
It’s just one more thing
Breaking point? I passed that sometime back in 2007.
Where are my damned tools!
Every 5 minute job turns into a fucking multi-hour job because my tools apparently get up and love themselves around in the night. Bought some nice cutting blades for the kitchen repair and cannot find them to save my life. Shot I only put my tools in 3 places in the house. Wtf!
Fix everything day
Yes, today is the Fourth of July. A holiday in the United States. I’m going to try to squeeze in 5 days of work into this one day. Todo: plumbing, cleaning/organizing, computer programming, car shopping, appliance shopping, and antenna hanging.
Life Pro Tip (LPT): The microphone is always on
As an entertainer, you learn early that a microphone will always be hot at the worst moment. A “hot” mic is a microphone that is turned on and will carry your voice to the audience. People in Zoom meetings, Google’s Meetup, MS Teams, etc. learned the hard way during COVID that microphones will carry your spoken word, bathroom sounds, barking dogs, and whiny children and the most inopportune times.
If you have a microphone nearby, assume it is hot. Assume that someone is going to hear what you say because of that microphone. Even if it is unplugged assume it is listening. Think of all the microphones near you. It’s not just the boom mic for your meetings or recordings. It’s the microphone in your phone, the voice assistant in your house, the mic on the Roku remote control, your camera, your security cameras, your drones, your Xbox and other game systems, and so forth. You are surrounded constantly by listening devices.
That was then
Every now and then I’m reminded we once lived without cellphones.
Sundia Diabolo with light kit
In the end it doesn’t matter
I’d like to think I’ll be missed when I am gone
But I know that is wrong
Our time here is brief
And we are quickly forgotten
Stories will be told
And lore rewritten
Unable to correct or defend
From the grave
Our reputation cannot be saved
History that never happened
Words contrived
Will become our legacy
We are legend
Getting things done is hot!
My happiness comes in accomplishments. And today I’ve been getting things done!
Getting work done. My hvac died on April 5 and I finally have 4 replacement quotes so we can return to a livable house soon. I’m making cleaning progress. And more.
From an outsider’s perspective, we may look like a mess. Yes, our kitchen plumbing failed. We have electrical issues in the house. The hvac isn’t working and the humidity today sucks. The car got some scratches in a minor accident. And I’m trying to buy a second car.
From my point of view, so much good is happening and coming together that I’m going to have to put on sunglasses to look ahead in my calendar.
It’s raining tree branches
A tree branch took out one of our outdoor chairs last night and I just heard another come crashing down. The joy of living in Woodland Acres.
