Tag: TMI
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Year-end shit
Guess I should do the year-end thing since it’s a habit. Mostly I’m just glad this year is over. It was an unusually hard year for internal reasons. External factors were positive: a new and fascinating courseware project and no reprise of 2020 (yet!) from the state and federal monsters. Part of the internal trouble…
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I shouldn’t try…
I shouldn’t try to get fancy in a language that I don’t know well! I wanted to slip in ecouter les bourgeoisie in the previous item. It didn’t seem right, so I googled. Nothing at all. Finally, after rolling the phrase around in my mind, the right phrase came in. Epater les bourgeoisie. Looking it…
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Stupidly annoying
Yesterday this blog received more “reads” in 7 minutes than it did in the previous year. 1510 “reads”, all from one dubious source. Liquid Web LLC doesn’t seem to be known as a spambot, and it’s not a Facebook or NSA or Amazon portal. It’s just a web hosting company, taken over and enshitified by…
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Ease and comfort
This picture is a bit old but represents my current mood. After a HARD and STRESSFUL summer, I’m gradually pulling out of the various troubles. Relaxing as much as possible while getting some work done on courseware. Basking in comfort without any guilt. Taking the taxi instead of the bus now that I’ve finally found…
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Indirect salute
Old folks have trouble with a slow-moving gut. Normally I can keep things going well enough with good diet and walks. The long hot summer messed with the diet and walks, and then a series of closely spaced difficult dental appointments built up tension to the point of definite constipation. I tried lots of different…
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Aphid Day 2024
Sept 28, 2024. Today’s temperature reached 86, and the weather bureau sees nothing but cool from here on. The aphids suddenly appeared at 3PM. Are they saying this is really the LAST hot day? I hope so. This summer has been WAY too long, and the combination of poor sleep and stress got my anxiety…
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Creative dream
I finally got enough sleep this morning, resulting in an interesting dream: I was reading a technical book and noticed that important words were underlined like href links in HTML. The words seemed to be thicker than the rest of the page, and when I pulled them out, each became a little reference card. The…
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Political dream
Significant dream this morning. This summer I’ve been constantly short on sleep, so dreams were missing. As usual after a gap the dream was discharging complex details of architecture and people. I was assigned by my usual Alpha+ superiors to go into a downtown store and buy Kildare Shoe Polish. The Alpha+ people were helping…
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Outside the worklog
Before 2017, I wasn’t keeping a private worklog for sleeps and dumps, but this public blog included most of the external events like hot spells or windstorms. Nice example right now. I opened the window at midnight to get some non-airconditioned air, and heard an odd noise. Something wrong with the fridge? No, a cricket…
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Worklog inflation
Purely personal! In 2016 I started keeping a daily log of health. The first one started on Aug 6, so I’ve kept the same starting and ending date for each year. In the first year the log only listed dumps and sleeps, plus an occasional note of an event that caused stress. Each day was…
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Dog’s dream
After one week of storms and three weeks of solid 90s and 100s, we’re finally back to normal summer with cool mornings and warm afternoons. As usual I’ve been sleeping and eating poorly in the heat. This morning I finally made up for lost sleep AND missed dreams, with a hugely complex dream, lots of…
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People are different
I’m a cool-weather critter. Always that way, even more with age. Happiest and most energetic between 30 and 60 degrees. The current heat wave wilts me. The air conditioner keeps the ambient air in the living room below 76, but my body picks up the radiant heat from ceiling and walls. The neighbor across the…
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Not deflowered yet
I started adult life in prison where I was literally and figuratively deflowered. The illusions of “freedom” and “democracy” and “justice” learned in school were stripped away and replaced by reality. Later in the 90s I fell back into neocon illusions. After turning off the TV in 2011, the illusions quickly dropped away and reality…
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Oddity about dream locations
I started life in Oklahoma, then spent much of the ’50s and ’60s in Manhattan. Spent the ’70s all over Oklahoma: Enid, Ponca, Norman, OKC, Shawnee, Stillwater. Early ’80s in the KC area, late ’80s at Penn State. Moved to Spokane in 1990, here ever since. My dreams were ALL located in Oklahoma until about…
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Thanks
We just had a quick ministorm, typical of spring weather here. Two minutes of HEAVY rain, two minutes of moderate rain, and then Thanks, Ma Nature! I’m having a bad week and needed a positive sign. = = = = = The Weather Bureau got a better picture out in the country.
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