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Inspired by a comment from gurdonark i poked at the Delta web site and various travel websites to discover i might have enough miles for a trip to Hawaii at the end of the next three trips east. I've never had the airline loyalty to build up miles, before. I think that American Airline's tiff with Orbitz may have something to do with the ease of sticking to one airline.

I've also talked on the phone to the flex benefits folks. They're cutting checks now (yay!) but the website is still unavailable to me. I must wait for a link that will allow me to create an account. Progress, at least, in that it appears if one had an account, one could log in. Also, instead of insisting on IE 5.5 as a browser, the message says "Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or higher is required to properly utilize this web site." One hopes that other modern browsers are acceptable as well.

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I'm trying to set slight more ambitious yet flexible goals for the evening. I realized i would have been able to claim satisfaction had i fiddled with digital images last night. I'm pondering a way that i can offer myself a menu of small actions and build my sense of satisfaction by choosing some from the menu until i've met some "budget." The point would be to assess how many decispoons the actions take, then figure out how many spoons i think would be reasonable to spend in an evening.

Tonight, two spoons. Then i can say i'm satisfied if i spend two spoons on any combination of things. Tonight, i'll say at least two different things: i can't spend the two spoons all on just doing correspondence. This allows me to set a goal of what would be satisfying, while maintaining the flexibility of meeting the type of energy i may have this evening. I might have the energy to exercise, but not correspond; the energy to do a chore, but not do something creative.

I can also set a goal now of trying to have the energy to do a particular thing (tonight, going to Meeting for Worship, for example), but if i just don't wanna (because i find myself working to the time to leave), i can exchange that commitment to self for another one that is more appropriate.

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More on airline miles

( background no one cares about, i don't know why i am saving it.... )

Me to my boss:

And I’d managed to convince myself that this was an important meeting for me professionally and was appreciating you putting me forward, and then I spent time this morning figuring out that with three spring trips, I might have enough points for a flight to Hawaii....

I’m actually disappointed now, but not enough to ask to get back on the hook!

My boss: Lo siento.

Written this morning

I managed to avoid doing a number of good for me things yesterday and binged on sugar. Oy, i have to stop with the sugar! I can tell it's no good for me, but when the craving hits, it's so hard. Why was i able to stay away so long?

One good for me thing i hesitate to share: it's cruel Mediterranean coastal climate taunting. I'd read wordweaverlynn's post about why we're all (here in the Bay Area) going to hell aloud to Christine previously. I was reclining on the deck, reading an annoying report from work, and Christine came out to mutter, "Hell, hell, hell, we're going to hell." But it was heavenly to enjoy the setting sun and the culmination of the day's warmth.

The warm spell is clearing out this weekend, but how delightful it's been.

I'm ordering my birthday tea, Mélange de Chamonix. If you have language sensitivity, you don't want to hear me butcher the French. "Fine India tea is blended with cocoa, cardamom, and a hint of cinnamon to produce a balanced and warming cup." I don't really need this yet as my birthday is over a month away, but i do want to get some of Upton's fruit tisanes for Christine to have as she's going caffeine free to reduce her sensitivity to pain. I may use the tisanes to flavor the Indian Red Label Lipton my mother gave me. Heavens knows how long it's been languishing in her cabinet.