Last night I decided to try an experiment. We were watching the DSO via streaming. Usually I bring in my laptop for such occasions. This time around I decided to leave the laptop in the other room. I noticed the feelings of wanting to get the laptop (especially near the …

Checking in for April for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

This was the first month of my "retirement" so most of it went into readjusting my routines and dealing with a modicum of grief over the …

I've noticed an anti-pattern in my day-to-day work where I'll spend an inordinate amount of it on social media (Mastodon, Discord, IRC, Matrix, etc.). I've also fond myself checking email a lot more this past month. Part of this is a lack of energy, but part of this is also …

I've been playing around a lot with chaos and uncertainty this past week. One instance of this was in upgrading my computers to Ubuntu 20.04 (I'm not one to go rushing into the latest LTS release). It was a bit scary, but I managed to fix most of the …

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I've been trying to carve out new routines for my morning. My intention was to have 25 minutes of reading time with the Mythic Game Master Emulator. This morning that didn't happen due to a hectic and unplanned morning. But that's OK. There's always …