9/11

11:59 PM

Today just happened to be a convergence of pretty much everything due all at once. I was taking two college courses, and they had homework due tonight. I dropped out of them today because I could not keep up with the courses, so I have to sign up for them again in October (then the classes start in November or December). I also have the Habitica challenge renewals set to today, I have reminders on every 1st, 11th, and 21st of each month. Today I also had a meeting with clients to discuss work related topics, which means a bunch of work due before the meeting basically.

Another thing today is that today is the day that the HVAC people are coming in to replace the A/C. So I have to be at home for that. I can't go outside and walk, well I could but then there'd be no one at home for them to reference in case they need something. I stayed at home for like 4-5 hours for them to replace the A/C. It took a while.

Then I got some emails about more stuff I have to complete. I also still have my dailies, which is to do brain training, exercising, and some vegan activism daily, and journaling. So everything just happened to converge to being due today, Wednesday.

As a counter example, I don't have much due on Tuesdays. I don't have any homework due. I don't have any work due for any clients. Unless it's the 1st, 11th, or 21st of the month, I also don't have to renew any Habitica challenges on Tuesdays either. So the only thing that I really have due on a Tuesday like yesterday, are my dailies. Yeah, everything came in due today, and I didn't complete much.

I ended up not exercising. I ended up not renewing the Habitica challenges. I didn't do any homework because I dropped out of the classes. I did complete work today though and submitted it. I also stayed at home for the A/C. Anyway, the lesson here is that having too many tasks can overwhelm someone to do none at all, or much less than they could have done.

I'm no longer stressed out by the topics I wrote about yesterday. I love my parents. I've been through worse stresses before. Also we did talk about it, and they are not selling the home. I still have to continue paying for it, but I have no problem with that. It's just something I am extremely used to and thought was normal, until I talked to people that didn't have this, then I thought life was unfair, and that I was upset at my parents for putting this kind of burden on me. I need to stop comparing my situation to other people's. We each have our strengths and weaknesses, and positives and negatives in our lives.

No one's real life stresses also compares to any of the stresses that animals suffer daily, through the actions of people who choose to eat them when they don't have to eat them at all. If a dog or cat is kicked, most people are outraged. If you even joke about hurting a cat or dog, people will threaten to end your life.

However, talk about the magnitudes worse suffering of other animals just as sentient and just as intelligent or even more intelligent than cats and dogs, and you get hated on or ignored. A simple kick is much less than an entire life in agony living in filth, drowning in filth, tails and beaks amputated, force bred, and needlessly killed. No animal deserves to suffer, especially not tens of billions of them when we literally do not have to kill and eat any at all ever, I haven't eaten any meat in 11 years. It bothers me as much how any animal is hurt as much as people are bothered if a dog or cat is hurt. People are selective about animal suffering.

Even though today was 9/11, I didn't see it discussed much. In school, we'd usually learn a few things about 9/11 throughout different classes in the day, and even have a moment of silence. I'm not sure if they still do that anymore. It's only been 23 years since 9/11, but wow, those 23 years went by fast, and technology evolved so fast compared to back then.

I'm pretty young at 30, but I'm fortunate enough to have lived through the era of rapid technology advancement. Especially since I grew up in a third world country, it was basically like living in the 1950s in the 90s. I slept under a mosquito net every night, and maybe we had a black and white TV with a knob to change the channels, but this could be a false memory. I do remember we transitioned to color tv at some point, but I do also remember a black and white only tv, but it could just be the TMC channel only having black and white only shows, so maybe it was that.

I've seen the advancement of cassettes to CDs to DVDs to external hdds to external ssds, and that's where we're at today. There was also the SD card, I had a 256mb SD card at some point, and that was a lot back in the day, and that transitioned into the micro SD cards. I experienced dial up Internet, and the transition to DSL, and now I think it's just called cable Internet or fiber optics Internet.

I was there for the video game transitions too, from the regular gameboy, not even the colored gameboy, to the gameboy color. I also had a Game & Watch, which predated both, but I wasn't around when they were invented, they were just around. I was there for the transition to the Game Boy Advance, and GameBoy Advance SP, then the Nintendo DS, and then the Nintendo DS Lite. Of course I was there for the Famicom or NES, then the SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, and that's I've experienced. I never owned any consoles newer than the Wii, but I was around for all of the console transitions since then.

I was there for the Invention of the iPhone and now the iPhone 16. I was around when Steve Jobs was still around. Gen Z today can experience the AI boom and it being around. I was around for all the popular websites and apps too.

Anyway, it's a good time and era to be alive in. I like that we have functioning toilets and showers, and cars and planes that can go anywhere. We take these things for granted, but most of history did not have them. Everyone went to the bathroom in some back yard or hole at home or in a bucket and tossing it out the window. I am very glad we have toilets.

I'm glad we have the Internet and that I can read as much content as I want on there. I enjoy reading. I love reading. I like reading and absorbing new information and knowledge. I may forget it the next day, but it was still fun to read and learn. The problem I have is application. I have a harder time with technical books like math or tech books, because those topics are harder to learn. A single math problem might stump you for an hour, while in that same time I could have read like 30 pages or something of a simpler book. So yeah I have a hard time with technical books.

Anyway, that was my day today.