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Warning to Dreamwidth readers: this is mostly about LJ.

Before you could choose to have your own comments mailed to you, i used to copy some comments to a private post. I was thinking through things, and some comments were meaningful enough that i wanted to save them.

The new thing where you can crosspost comments to twitter and FB, though, seems a little odd. I won't be using it. I'm surprised its enabled on locked post comments as well as public. It does not seem that it is controlled anywhere. (However, one can have all of one's comments published to twitter or FB by default.)

I'm too tired to really critique it, and it deserves critiquing. The thing is, i trust y'all, so i'm not going to spend any more energy on this. If you move to Dreamwidth, you'll find most of my blog there, too, and i'm happy to read yours there.

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Health status

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Yesterday's food was cottage cheese and canned fruit, a box of broccoli soup (cold), apple sauce, cheesecake, and fish, mashed potatoes and somewhat mashed peas.

I really really miss nuts, i think.

Have eggs from my colleague, another half watermelon to pulp, carrots to juice. The corn soup & corn dumplings might be good again -- or i could make it with black beans. I wonder if i should just eat more avocado to make up for the missing nuts.

OK, maybe i'm hungry this morning!

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Way way too much time on his hands: driver crosses the US in a GPS-tracked route that then spells out "READ AYN RAND." http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2010/08/ayn_rand_big_bo.html
(Christine asks if the driver did any sort of networking or anything while wasting all that gas.)

I think Apexart is very cool, They now have publications http://www.apexart.org/publications.htm (What we would like is a bound book of the exhibition brochures, but that's not offered.)

The temperature is supposed to leap up by 35 degrees today, a high 13 degrees warmer than yesterday. Entertainingly, the temperature was still falling as of 7 am -- but started back up at 8 am, so should shut up the house at some point.

I am supposed to blog about "home" today. The house is a bit of a wreck. We have the new bookshelves mostly done, but the anchoring needs to happen. So nothing much is on the shelves yet. There are a few more shelves to add; the incorrect doors need to be returned. The CD review project, which involves unpacking the CDs from shipping boxes and moving them to the nice storage boxes (culling disks Christine no longer wants), is mid progress: the assembly line for new CD boxes and review disks overwhelms the dining area.

The Roomba seems to have very little battery life. I resent that, although the fix is obvious. [Runs off to Amazon to buy new batteries and new brushes and ponder the TCO.] We bought a new wall on eBay, i'll be testing that and finally setting up the scheduled run some time soon. I've not used the scheduled run because of the need to manually block spaces; if it runs on a schedule it will that really will help with the track-in from the deck.

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This model of a ritual of release from the Jewish tradition -- http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/08/release.html -- strikes me as very wise and meaningful ritual. I wonder about making my own.

An early Velveteen Rabbi blog notes

The Kotzker rebbe (Reb Menachem Mendel of Kotzk) is reported to have taught that "There is nothing so whole as the broken heart." It's a powerful paradox, to think that we can find wholeness not despite our brokenness but through it.

I've felt that paradox, connected with it in a mystic space, but intellectually i have issues with it from a justice point of view. Our narrow labels of good and bad crack as one considers an experience that shouldn't have happened (pick something you think of as a violation, a betrayal, an injustice) and how the "victim" might grow and become a better person for it. I recognize though, that our hearts can break even when it's not a "wrong" act, that the breaking can just come about because of the general brokenness... and perfection.

...reading some blog posts and taking things slowly....

What i would tweet...

... if i exposed myself like this:

I do not want to do my self assessment, due already, nor do i want to engage in the peoplesoft hell of getting my expenses for the past trip refunded. However, i owe Amex many hundred dollars now.

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I'm a wuss. I can't do it. I'll go to sleep, get up early when i am rested, the discomfort less, the temperature cooler, and i am at my most optimistic.

(The temperature outside is falling, but it takes a while for the inside to catch up. )