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I’m going to make waffles. I need to write more on my blog. Somehow these things seem related.
Writing
Writing
Trees
I've been really fascinated with the shape of trees lately. There's something about the organic, smoke-like shapes of branches, trunks, and bark that's capturing my imagination. I'm not sure what to do with this, so I've been taking pictures. I
Writing
Against the Grain
I finished reading another book! That's two this year. I mean, I'm reading all the time, but mostly articles, web pages, Reddit posts, Tweets. Since the derecho, I've finished two actual books. This one was Against the Grain, by James C. Scott, which is
Writing
Stumbling Through Text Blocks
I normally write in a text editor, usually Drafts by Agile Tortoise. For years, my flow has been to jot ideas down in Drafts, flesh them out into blog posts, and then exporting them to Wordpress. I even tried to have it so that I could fire and forget from
Writing
Leaving OmniFocus
I think that sometimes I forget the forest for the trees. I can get bogged down on the little things, and lose track of the big picture. And when you're swept up in the details, maybe you're making things harder than they need to be. I
Writing
Better to Bend than Break
Oh, I need this walk. I’ve been trying to take at least a half hour walk daily, even if it’s just around the block. Lately, I’ve been walking in the morning, before starting my day. We’ve been under a heat advisory all week. Normally, the boys
Writing
A la derecho
I think I knew it was supposed to rain, but I didn't really pay attention. I was wrestling with my computer. It was unhappy about something, so I was killing processes and restarting, applying updates and restarting, all the while just wanting to get started on work. And
Gaming
Leaving The Wasteland
I’m feeling better, more talkative, so maybe today’s the day to get into my feelings about Fallout 76. I keep circling back to it in my head, and I think it’s about the game model. There’s something important to me there, so I think it’s
Writing
Autistic Twitter
I posted something about my Autism to Twitter the other morning. I’ve been really amazed by the autistic community on Twitter, and it is getting me more into using Twitter as my social media. I’d already been getting into it more by switching from Tweetbot to the official
Quotes
30 years after Prozac arrived, we still buy the lie that chemical imbalances cause depression
Some 2,000 years ago, the Ancient Greek scholar Hippocrates argued that all ailments, including mental illnesses such as melancholia, could be explained by imbalances in the four bodily fluids, or “humors.” Today, most of us like to think we know better: Depression—our term for melancholia—is caused by
Writing
Beans, Beans
It looks like we're going to be eating a lot of beans in the near future. Beans always make me think of the movie, East of Eden, starring James Dean. I'm sad to say I've never read the novel. Probably should get on that.
Writing
Pandemic Anxiety
I don't know what to make of what's going on right now. Honestly, the way things feel right now reminds me of the days after 9/11, or Columbine, or Waco, or the OKC Bombing. Something major is happening, but no one really knows anything, and