Month: February 2025
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This blog is a mandala
This blog is a mandala. Beautiful for the few moments I am writing in it, then drown in the internet to be truly lost.
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Magic in My Lap
My cat Magic has been especially cuddly with me in the past few days. She has gotten into my lap and stayed there for an hour letting me pet her. But “Magic in my Lap” kinda sounds like a dirty movie. One of those artsy “We don’t call it a lap dance in France” sorts…
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40 Degrees is Paradise
For the past two months it has been cold enough that I haven’t wanted to walk around outside. Today it was 40 degrees in the afternoon and we didn’t get rain like yesterday. So the whole family went for a walk to the convenience store about half a mile from the house. It wasn’t a…
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Chickens go in, pies come out
My son has been reciting the script from Chicken Run. “Chickens go in, pies come out.” Have a pie. (SketchPad, finger painting) Chicken Pot Pie
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Piles of Crap
Don’t worry I’m not going to complain about literal crap today though gods know I have too much of that too. Today I am concerned about all the cardboard that had been piling up in the house. We get a ton of deliveries and so have more cardboard boxes than a reasonable family should face.…
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Supreme Guidance
I am still slowly working my way through Chuang Tzu. Sometimes I am truly moved by the idea of The Tao. Sometimes I think that it is analogous to the Holy Spirit. But in that thought experiment only the Tao and the Holy Spirit exist. It seems at times like this that there is guidance…
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Technically the Weekend
Stephanie and I were discussing finances. Well I was discussing them and she was telling me she didn’t have the spoons to do it. She said she didn’t even know what day it was. That’s fair because all our days seem to blend together sometimes. But our middle child’s day program aide said “Have a…
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The Virtue of Uselessness
It has been another good day. I have not been getting as much sleep as I like. But I have remained as productive as a usually am. I have been shifting back and forth between artificial D&D and the works of Chuang Tzu. He is among the wisest philosophers that have ever lived. He spent…
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Surfing the App Store
I am thinking of getting something to manage the security on my phone better. I have heard good things about ExpressVPN so I opened its page in the app store. It is “#5 Top Grossing.” That is a stupid thing to brag about. It’s just a bad flex. It’s like saying, “We are among the…
Latter Day Sinner 