Thursday, April 1st, 2010 07:11 am
Don't expect April Fools jokes from me. I am too busy trying to figure out what news and links are real and what are jokes. Chefs prepare meals at site of volcano in Iceland? Person from Berkeley wants recommendation of reasonably priced hotel near Union Square in San Francisco?

I do think it is telling that Google's Topeka's AFD joke is about branding and not about technology. I'm not sure exactly what it's telling me, though: are technical people bored with coming up with a joke and they've abandoned it to marketing? Or has marketing taken over?

Anyhow, my most productive practical jokes were simply shouting out to my parents that the horses were loose while my parents were having their morning coffee. Much immediate scrambling, very little prep or cleverness required. Poor parents. That was mean.

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Greycie Loo had more than her share in the middle of the bed this morning. Not sure when i'm going to start evicting her: so far i'm amused by how the tiniest member of our household seems to have the most weight to throw around. Bossy thing.

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Will i write poetry this month, a NaPoWriMo of sorts? Will i post them? Is he1icopter correspondences any good (i reread)? Shall i make a new dada-ist set of random terms to fill out the month? I have three sets of four sections remaining, each section has four to six required terms.

Care check in
Have i been using those tools that i know make my life better? (Or that i'm experimenting with?)

~ be aware of joy and abundance (1):
~ be aware of transitions (joy/flow/meander) (1):
√ & X respond to weekly journal prompts & health chart (1): New month! Do i want to do an April chart now that i'm not depressed as much?
√ care for physical health - supplements, treatments, adaptions (1): mostly, rarely using Querc, still
X exercise or "work break walk" daily (1,4): i don't recall any since last H
√ use "emotional hacks" [1] to avoid paralysis (1,4): journalling while trying to get focus is one of the hacks
√ balance expressive creation, nurturing, and consuming others' (5,6):
√ ruthlessly delete cruft (1,4,6): "ruthless" may not be right, but i dumped a broken magnet i could have fixed, bubble wrap to P-C, and continuing work on the tea stash.

~ keep up with to-do's without overwhelming self:
Mindmap, new email pattern, and JIRAs are helping with work. Home, Oversight, Library still need help.

X use mental/emotional bookmarking:
X identify yams [2]:

Aspects: 1. SELF 2. F&F 3. COM 4. WORK 5. CRT 6. HOME
[1] http://elainegrey.livejournal.com/1164774.html?thread=1319398#t1319398
[2] http://elainegrey.livejournal.com/1041377.html?thread=1116129#t1116129
updated 2010-01-08 reorg & rewrite
updated 2008-08-21 aspect notes