Terri's birthday today, she's off to Vienna. Must be a gloomy air there after having their story twisted so shockingly into disappointment by the excellent defending of the Turkish team. Starmer turning the big dial that says transphobia all the way up in the last moments of the campaign. Pointless...
11:40 PM People think that the opposite of distraction is focus, but actually, the prefix "dis" means "not", so the opposite of distraction is actually traction. The dictionary definition of traction means to be moved by a pulling force. How I think of traction is the gain of movement and momentum ...
Grey, drizzle on the way -- rain bad for cement. Hope the fenceposts aren't affected. Going well so far, tho. Old shed already gone. Day not bad in terms of applications, but 'what are the results?', says the night-time. Hard for the thoughts to not circle back to 'what if I never?', 'how much long...
The shed is being demolished. The view from the desk is completely different. I literally can't imagine it looking nice out there. Since the plum tree died there hasn't been anything nice to look at through the window at any time of the year. Obviously, you expect these things when you live opposite...
11:43 PM I haven't gone outside in about 4 days because of the bug bites on my legs. As of today, they don't itch anymore, and are starting to get darker and smaller. I hope they don't scar. Getting bitten by noseeums was a wake-up call. I have to ask what I'm doing with my life. Why haven't I bee...
One of the reasons I find BB fascinating is that he’s constantly watching and learning and making connections and pushing his own boundaries. Just in the few days I was with him, he had a bunch of tiny milestones and firsts. One of his favorite toys is a set of eight wooden carrots and a wooden bloc...
11:57 PM The past few days have been a whirlwind. On Saturday, It was, I don't remember the nickname I gave her, oh yeah, Acorn, and it was her last day in PR for a while. Acorn was the person we went to the gym with a week ago, she's only in PR temporarily and she may be back again. Since it was h...
BB loves looking out the screen door to the balcony. (What does he see out there? Maybe it’s just a nice shade of green. Or maybe he sees a place he hasn’t been and wants to go there.) On Friday he kept pointing at it, and I’d pick him up and let him look outside. On Saturday, Mom opened the screen ...
On the dining table there was a library book about baby-led weaning. I read the intro out of curiosity. It’s pretty wild:Baby eats whatever the family eats. No special meals for baby.Baby is given food in “adult” form (with safety concessions like removing nuts and other possible choking hazards). B...
9:49 AM (of Saturday, June 22nd 2024) Today is Friday, June 21st 2024 and I mainly just worked today. There was something I was supposed to turn in by 3 PM today for a client, and I have been working on it little by little throughout the week, and today it took a few hours of extreme concentration,...
The trip up was uneventful. Mom’s headphones weren’t working, so she put her Zoom meeting on speakerphone and we got treated to an hour-long discussion of revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year. Anyway, BB! He had his first birthday a couple weeks ago. He’s a pro at crawling (Mom said he s...
11:59 PM I can't say today was that great of a day. I did some work, had a video call with my parents, did my daily brain training, sprouted some lentils, and watched some YouTube videos. I still haven't watched any anime or played any video games. I did play this "game" called Trivia Crack, I hope...