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powers beyond my understanding

2023-08-26

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I've been sick (again), worse than before. I get sick all the time - is this some kind of twin bond? Is my brothers child filled disease home creating some kind of spiritual-psycho-somatic connection?

Probably not, I think it's more to do with:

The nice thing about being sick is I do a lot of web surfing. I mean I do this anyway, but when I'm sick I fully just let myself browse, clicking link after link, following those rabbit holes. I'm also thinking I'll make some changes to return.horse while I'm sick.

I don't really like Notion for project tracking, at least not hwo I'm using it. It feels clumsy. I really like the home page I have though, and I enjoy swapping out the content every now and then.

The retired quotes dropdown is a goldmine, and I'm really happy with my choice to categorise images as "quotes" too. It might be a nice post to make one day, just all of those retired quotes. Or a page?

I still don't really know how to track personal projects. For that matter, I don't really know how to plan and track work projects. This is going to become more of an issue as time goes on, so I better learn. I barely even know where to start. Project management? Getting Things Done? Doing things is something I've struggled with my whole life, it's nice that I've still managed somehow to do things. All things are possible I guess.

The tool must follow the need,

  1. That Love is all there is,
  2. Is all we know of Love;
  3. It is enough, the freight should be
  4. Proportioned to the groove.

I'm thinking (as usual, as always) about return.horse. I want to be posting more regularly, the problem I find is generating actual funny stuff. It requires time, and if I leave it too late in the day I don't have enough time to let them mellow and mature into something really funny. I think I've truly got the need now for a routine though, and I could pretty easily spend half an hour coming up with ideas to let ferment for a day before using them.

I could pretty easily spend half an hour

delusions of a fool, when have I ever found it easy to put aside half an hour a week.

But still, I think this routine is a good example of following the need. We'll see.

what else

I feel average emotionally. Sitting in bed all day seems to have that effect.

I want to make something new. (something creative, funny, character driven?) I've wanted to do something with ascii art for a while - maybe that. I like the idea of a webcomic that's just plain text, you could read it on your terminal. Here's a (weak) concept.

$ curl theword.club
        *
              *
         *         +
                   A_
                  /\-\
                 _||"|_
        ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^

this is the only building that survived

I'm not sure what the story would be. I see a face in my mind, maybe some kind of wizard? I'll put it through the small project wringer.

what else else

I'm reading this: By Way of Introduction. It's got that beautiful, "almost-no-style" style online typesetting I love. Really feels like finding a good and mysterious book at the library.

Science is hated because its mastery requires too much hard work, and, by the same token, its practitioners, the scientists, are hated because of their power they derive from it.

I've also started reading this: Personal Entropy - It's more designed, and the language is dense and inscrutable, but it feels like a compelling read. I remember when I had Exhaustion et Exhuberance in my phone for like a year, I finally read it while waiting in line for my yellow fever vaccination. It was great, I still think about it now.

listening to

Zoo Kid - Out Getting Ribs

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