Year: 2024

Tonight I’m listening to an old cassette tape from my childhood that I haven’t listened to in at least 30 years. I must have been 8 or so I’m guessing. I can hear myself playing with one of the neighbors. I made him be the Soviet Union because I wanted to pretend war and wanted him to be the bad guy and wanted it to feel real even though I had no idea what the Soviet Union even was.so much joy I took from destruction. I can hear myself now…

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Golly how time flies and it’s been almost a week since I wrote here. I wanted to do this maybe three times a week on average. I have told myself that I need to come back here and write whenever I finish another book. I want to talk about every book that I listen to on audible to maximize their retention and positive impact on my life.Anyway, finished Hooked by Michael Moss and it was a fantastic book but I don’t really know what i can say other than I’m…

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Finished Getting To Yes today. This was a fantastic book. Prolly in the top 5% of the self help books I’ve listened to… at least for me. Maybe it’s cuz I always have had problems with emotions getting in the way of my personal negotiations and this instinct to think of my interactions with other people as being an us-vs-them kind of scenario, like even my romantic relationships in the past often felt like me vs her and I never knew how to steer the conversation back to a place…

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I’m sitting out in a hammock in the woods of West Virginia right now listening to Keith Urban in the foreground and a beautiful stream in the background and wanted to babble on about how incredible everything is. I think about that movie Office Space from time to time and that guy who was like “every day is just a little worse than the day before so every day of my life is literally the worst day of my life” and I remember seeing that back in the day and…

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Golly, been a week already since my “first” entry. I write this in VS code of all places because it’s easier than having separate apps for writing and coding and I don’t want to write JavaScript in MS word.But how I write is a boring topic and I want to keep this interesting and useful.I’m listening to Hooked by Michael Hoss on Audible right now “How the food industry exploits our addictions”.I’m struggling with a sugar addiction right now. I already cut out sodas and caffeine, most processed meats, most…

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Been thinking of maybe going back to my age old idea of making a public journal. Just write as fast as possible like I normally do in my private journal and just post. The public one could have comments but I wouldn’t respond to them unless it was like a weird special occasion.I know I’ve tried the social media thing over and over and over and it’s never worked, but you know, I do it differently every time and this idea is a bit different than what I’ve done in…

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