
September 13, 2021
September 3, 2021
August 29, 2021
Some things happening now:
- Weight loss has gone well since returning to the gym in April 2021. I am about as fit as I’ve ever been in my adult life. I’m not feeling a lot of strain with keeping up with my physical health, so I’m hoping to keep this rolling, permanently. For whatever reason, this time everything is working.
- That vacation to Tulum was both great and terrible – we got away, we rode bikes, we hung out on the beach, and we ate some great food. It was nice to be active somewhere else. But for days during that trip I had a sinking feeling. Anxiety? Stress? I’m not sure. But I found the idle time challenging, and I think overall my feeling was, “Uh oh, that’s a lot of emotional weight from the past year and a half and I think it’s all catching up right now.”
- So this summer has been mentally hard. I’ve had good days and bad days. I’ve been meditating lately, and I think maybe that’s helping. But the whole pandemic has been hard and the delta variant snatching away what normalcy I was starting to feel has been devastating.
- We’re going on more vacations, and I’m quite excited, because I’ve learned the alternative is a greater risk to my health right now.
- I picked up the pace of reading this summer and it feels great.
- I’ve logged out and deleted the Twitter apps (and all tweets, which happens after 60 days anyway). I’ve reduced some of my RSS subscriptions. I turned off easily finding my archives on the blog. This is not meant to be permanent, just seeking some additional quiet. I need a reset. I am allowing too many things out of my control to impact my emotions.
Feel free to email me if you’d like to correspond and you don’t have my phone number.
Here are a couple of recent dog pictures.
August 24, 2021
August 15, 2021
I have not yet taught her she will be ignored while I meditate. A few moments later, she had her head on my stomach. She stayed there while I was breathing for almost ten mins.

August 13, 2021
August 11, 2021
August 10, 2021
August 7, 2021
July 24, 2021
Just spent a paycheck on this haul from @atomicbooks.

July 18, 2021
July 17, 2021