Holy Moly these Missippi River maps are amazing! Showing the change of the Mississippi River’s “meander belt” over the course of time with overlapping colors.
Stunning work.
Today’s wisdom:
I’m working on finding ways to break my procrastination by setting small, simple goals through out my non work day to get working on simple tasks.
Here is Gruber saying Google has lost intrest in Android and the Pixel line because Google doesn’t value what Gruber values. Again.
Just saw a commercial for the United States Space Force
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Maya Angelou
My Journal Setup
I started July with a simple goal:
Journal everyday
I dutifully set up my journaling system in two notebooks.
- Bullet Journal
- I setup a weekly spread instead of a daily spread because I did not think that I would need a ton of space for my simple household tasks before it was time to go to work.
- Hobonichi Techo
- For reflections on the day at the end of the day.
Bullet Journal
For the month I decided to just do a weekly log instead of the daily log. My weekly log is a 2 page spread with the 7 days already written in with 21 lines for weekdays and 11 lines for weekends.
Some days I would completely fill the 21 lines. Some days I would not.
Overall, I think that setting up my tasks as a weely spread is better for me than starting a blank page for a day. It helps me to visually see the limit of time that I have for household tasks that I have before it is time to go into work. I was pretty consistent in setting it up the night before with the things that I wanted to get done the next day.
One thing that I did the first week was setting a little time graph on the right side of the day to actually track how I spent my time before going to work. I did not do this for the last two weeks. I think this will make a return next week.
I have only missed 3 days in the Bullet Journal so far this month. Much better progress toward the Goal than June when I only logged 6 days in the month.
##Hobonichi Techo I have a pretty simple plan: write about what I want to write about. Nothing special.
Just sit down at the end of the day and write about what I’m thinking about, what happened, what was good, what was bad, anyting that comes to mind.
I tried to keep it a little formated with a statement of whether it was a good, okay, or bad day on the first line. Then proceed to write about why it was that kind of day. I’m happy with that starting point. I don’t feel constrained when starting. I feel like I can just write.
June I wrote 8 out of 30 days. July I have written 10 out of 17 days.
There is definitely room for improvement. But, overall, I am happy that I am working on creating and maintaining this habit.
Sitting in the vet’s parking lot waiting on vaccinations for the kittens.
I wonder if the anti-vax crowd is anti-vax for their pets as well as their kids.
I often wonder how I would have fared during the Stay At Home orders if my job wasn’t “essential” and I didn’t have to go to work everyday.
I like to think that I would have handled it well.
But, I’m not so sure.
New Watch Alert
Fitbit Versa 2
I fear that my left knee is slowly dying. If I don’t move it for a time then it just gives me a stabbing pain when I do move it.
Do not like.
Quit Blaming the Death of Google Reader for Society Being Shitty
Dieter Bohn thinks
the death of Google Reader made a space for the algorithmic news feed, which was weaponized to spread disinformation, which broke our shared acceptance of facts,
Like that many people were using RSS feeds to get there news in 2013. Pretty sure it was just Facebook and the rise in easy access to shitty opinions and the ease to share those shitty opinions as facts with other people who believed the shitty opinions.
Tech writers and pundits give the tools they use more weight then the tools deserve because the tools are essential to the writers and pundits work, but probably not to the larger general population.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
My Fitbit Versa should be arriving today. Looks like I’ll have a new toy to play with after work tonight.
I spent the evening after work tonight listening to Arlo Guthrie.
Kulning is, as Jason Kottke describes, hauntingly beautiful.
So many good TV shows to watch and not time to watch them.
I totally think that Microsoft should bring back Windows Mobile and work with OEMs on creating phones again.
I just charged up my Nokia 530 from 6 years ago and the interface is still better than the grid of apps I have on my iPhone 6S.
Just out of curiosity.
Does anyone know of a Mb client for Windows? Or an app that is compatible with mirco.blog?
I pulled my Pixel 2 out of the pile of old phones I have to see how it stacks up to my Pixel 4. Currently on the 4th security update install of the evening.