13 Observations
Sending them before I delete them.
I screwed up this morning. I was trying to get too much stuff done and was too hard on the kids. Doing some laundry and trying to move ice-melting salt out of the garage. That salt's been sitting there for weeks or months yet I had to do it this morning. It's a double error here. I made the wrong choice when I should have instead helped with puzzles and applesauce. And then I got frustrated with them. I will apologize when they get home.
I shall work for 25 minutes and then write for 5 minutes. This is the deal. The deal cannot be renegotiated until 100 hours have been completed.
Hopefully as the hours tick up the aversion ticks down.The 5 minutes go by much faster than the 25 minutes.
I ordered a pair of shorts from Patagonia and received their Work in Progress report on their environmental efforts. It would be nice if more companies tried this hard to be good stewards.
I finally figured out how to resize pictures on Substack. Neat.
I’ll need to run off about 20lbs before those shorts fit.
I’m no longer interested in trying hard to cut calories to lose weight. I’ll run/bike/swim instead. This doesn’t mean I’ll cut loose on the calories. But just maintain the current diet or try small improvements like less calories after dinner. And less soda at midday.
I’ve set up a tomato tracker for the 100 hours of 25 minutes work / 5 minutes write and the tomato emoji 🍅 is way more fun than using numbers.
The lady in front of me at the drive-through paid for my soda this morning. It was one of those with two lanes that merge into one drive. I finished my order about 5 seconds before she did, but let her go ahead of me. I appreciate her kindness.
The lady who was originally in front of me in the drive-through. When she was ordering, the way the sunlight and shadows lit up her face in her driver’s side mirror was the stuff photographer’s dream of. The lighting reminded me of the quote, there are cathedrals everywhere with those with eyes to see.
A coffee table book of faces in driver’s side mirrors in drive-throughs isn’t the worst book idea. Expanded captions to say who, what they ordering, and some backstory a la Humans of New York.
I stumbled across this YouTube video by Peter McKinnon. I had never heard of him before but the message was serendipitous for me. The part with Casey Neistat about removing something things from decisions, they just get done. No deciding. Hopefully I correctly linked it to the 2 minute mark.
Sotheby’s sent me a postcard to download/request a paper copy of the art market beyond $1million. Thank you for seeing the potential in me Sotheby’s. They dont see me for who I am today, they see me for who I can be in the future.
