Category: Diary
General posts about my life and the things I am doing
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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…
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Environs
I just finished my Chinese class and one of the things I thought I would do very quickly before I start working is to write my daily entry. One of the things that’s really difficult to admit to myself is I have plenty of time to do things. It’s really about what I choose to…