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Dips
I had a bit of a moment today. In the late afternoon after I finished work. Everything felt very down. Suddenly I doubted my position, my friendships, myself, my work. Sort of the opposite of a euphoric moment. A moment of helplessness, and I wouldn’t say despair, but certainly a feeling of absence or emptiness?…
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Good coffee
Is good coffee better than bad? A bit of a philosophical question today. Our lives are made-up of experiences. We pay attention to some of them, less attention to others. There are things which happen right in front of us which we don’t even notice. There are things that don’t happen in front of us…
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Cooling
So I now have one day less than a month to get the heat pump installed, the hot water and buffer tanks set up and at least one of the fan coil heaters working so the new heating system can be commissioned before November 17th, which is when the BUS certificate expires and I’ll become…
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Helping
I’m not quite sure how I feel about today. On the one hand, it started out really well. I got up nice and early, studied for an hour and did some handwriting practise and then had a class with LQ from 7:00 to 8:00am. We studied the first half of an idiom which is about…
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Advisors
On the one hand I am reasonably competent. I am taking on a series of jobs and activities around the house and garden which are both novel to me and reasonably challenging and require some tools and effort and thinking. On the other, I don’t feel very organised at all. When my friend D visits,…
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Neferata
There has been an update to Total War: Warhammer 3. They’ve released Nagash as a playable character and there’s also a Lahmian faction, led by a character called Neferata. Apparently the first of vampires. In my occasional downtime, for example when I’ve exhausted myself physically or I need a mental break, I will play a…