Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
Last night I saw Thurgood. It was excellent. Today I gave Obama $100. We're about to go out into the close, overcast day and get the makings of a big old fry-up for breakfast. Happy Fourth!
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01:44:50 PM,Friday 4 July 2008
You can't have eudaimonia without good habits, man. I realize this. I've got a good life, and I'm pretty happy in a free-floating way: enough to eat, a limitless city, a place to retreat to, and a girl to curl up with at night -- but I'll never be eudaimonia happy until I'm able to control my habits. It's the hardest damn thing.
Here's a list of the things I already reliably do every day:
Check (and mostly answer) my email
Get through my RSS reader and blog trackers
Wash the dishes
Clean the cat box
Read printed text (most days)
Feed myself
Shower (most days)
Here's a list of things I'd do every day if I had the self-discipline of a godlike superbeing:
Everything in the previous list
Practice at least one of my instruments, if not all three
Practice ASL
Practice steno, both speed and dictionary building
Learn Python incrementally but steadily and start working on Plover in earnest
Work out 30 minutes a day, incorporating both cardiovascular and strength training
Cook meals from scratch regularly without using processed ingredients
Gather background material for Mold and Gammon (My poor scrapped NaNo Novel; someday I actually want to write the thing)
I'm laughing bitterly just thinking about it. But nothing ventured, et cetera. I've registered four calendars on Everyday Systems's HabitCal: Fingerspell, CCP, Twist, and Pushups. Every day that I complete a quiz of any length at my current speed level on ASLPro's Fingerspell site, every day I practice one of the 5-minute takes from my RMR CDs, every day I complete my allotted portion of pushups according to Hundredpushups.com (using hand weights as pushup bars since it's too hard on my wrists to do them the normal way), and every day (I blush to write it) I spaz around like an idiot on my Twist Board for the duration of even one mp3 of my choice, I'll give myself a green square. I'm intrigued by the ShovelGlove, also from Everyday Systems, but I'm going to try to keep to these ludicrously easy goals for at least a month before I purchase any new equipment. We'll see how it goes.
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05:16:49 PM,Thursday 3 July 2008
This is brilliant. Also gorgeous. Via Sola.
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03:43:17 PM,Wednesday 2 July 2008
