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Consistency
Part of the reason I’m writing these little journal entries is because I’m curious about what other people think and how their lives go. My diligence, consistency and effort comes and goes in waves. There are days when I wake up and I clean and I organise and I cook healthy food and I work…
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Company
Much of the time I feel very comfortable in my own company. I wake up in the mornings and I make coffee, I sit by the window and I drink it thinking about the things I’m going to do during the day. I make scrambled eggs and I eat them quietly while I think about…
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Struck
I have been watching the number of days without entries getting larger and larger. This is almost a week without an entry and that’s mildly alarming. It leaves me asking why. The weather outside is beautiful, stepping outside the front door to measure the roof of the garage at lunchtime today and the sunshine is…
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Cancelled
I canceled my Chinese class today. I’m not very happy about it and yet at the same time I feel I am appropriately focusing on the things I need to get done. Work is kind of important. On second thoughts, I think I’m OK with cancelling class. I went to bed early last night to…
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Bobiverse
I have been reading, for a couple of years now, a series of books called the Bobiverse. It is a science fiction series which follows a project manager and software developer called Bob who dies and is then resurrected around 100 years later as a von Neumann probe. Von Neumann is a self replicating machine,…
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Remembering 9/11
I was sailing with a predominantly American group on a three-masted barque called the Statsraad Lehmkuhl on September 11 2001. It’s a beautiful Norwegian training ship, based out of Bergen. It’s about 85m long and 12m wide at the widest point. This is long and slender for a ship, so it looks fast. It can…