(gratitude, geek)

"Think of things I do and use on a day-to-day basis: How do these things improve my quality of life?"

I am really happy with the "to do list" manager i have built with Airtable. I remember variations of to do lists i've maintained over the years. One of the challenges was maintaining the list, including adding on regular tasks and reminders. I've been able to use the "low code" programming with Airtable to be able to automate reminders for every N days, specific days of the week, and every day. I just add the reminders to the table of "chores" and they show up the next day or a year from now.And then they show up again. I would love to switch some things to a "N days after finishing" function, but the friction of tweaking when i take forever to get around to something is still pretty low.

It's not a resolution, per se, but with declaring some levels of "bankruptcy" with my life and paying more attention to having enough energy to close out my day, i'm having a smoother time.

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My new Linux mini PC arrived last night and we did have sufficient MDI cables for me to hook up a gadget i bought last spring as monitor, keyboard, and mouse to get started with Ubuntu. I'm almost at having the ability to remote into a desktop, but it's possible that i can make do with just ssh into it. Ha, i bet Emacs will work smoothly on it! I quit using Emacs on the mac after some level of permissions lock down meant i'd have to compile it to get it to work, which i couldn't justify for my employment: i switched to visual studio code.

(gratitude)

Un posted from Thursday

"What have I recently introduced into my life that's brought me peace, joy, or comfort?" I am excited by the kintsugi kit. Last night i fixed one, and made significant progress on another of the two broken tiny china plates of a set of four. We'd bought them to be cat plates, for serving things like the dab of whipping cream we give Luigi after dosing him with a pill each night. The plates were a pleasure to replace the ad hoc yogurt lid or dinner plate. Breaking a few was, well, OK, they weren't incredibly precious, but i chipped the first one so soon after we got them.

I plan to practice some amount of visible mending on a well used, well loved T-shirt of Christine's. I was surprised to realize the clothing practice of visible mending is the same aesthetic principle of kintsugi.