This is the second or third time I have reached the milestone of an eight hundred day writing streak on this here blog, and you know what 8 have to show for it? A brand new habit that’s kinda hard to break if I’m being honest. I feel as though my day is incomplete if I don’t mosey on over here and write out at least a few sentences. I’m not defending my master’s thesis or a PHD over here so I can be a fruitless, and as frivolous with my words as I care to be. Sometimes, just maybe, I feel the extreme urge to be absurd and I do write literal and figurative nonsense just for the shits & giggles it gives me in the moment. It’s almost cathartic in a way.
I don’t impart any new knowledge, and I certainly don’t synthesize any data here, nor draw people in with my witty banter. This is a petty void where brain cells go to die. Possibly be mildly entertained whilst doing so. But unlikely to offer anything with any sort of lasting effect. Go figure! I’m a sugary treat with no nutritive value, a brief rush, and then a total crash out. Ha! I’m like social media that way! I’m an AI scrapping bot wet dream, a bear constant flow of written media to gobble up, but offer nothing of material value in return. It’s the perfect heist. I write crap, and your AI’s dribble out worse materials as a result. Win-win for me.
Now if I had a good quality photo to share this would be where I’d put it. But I don’t wish to share images from a recent birthday party, nor have I gotten out to take anything new recently, beyond some small ornamental roses that opened up in our front garden.
Doesn’t it feel better to be here alongside a high quality photograph? Yes, yes it does. In other news I was able to get my first draft done by Friday afternoon, so that has been a load off my shoulders. My original assessment placed me in the office all weekend, including Monday morning just to get the first draft done. But I wasn’t reviewing the data with a clear enough mind, and I missed some key bits of information, which actually worked in my favour. Where I thought I was heading into Thursday, and Friday about thirty pages behind schedule due to my daughter’s party taking up all of Tuesday, and the kids half day of school eating into my Thursday productivity, I WAS ultimately on schedule, if not slightly ahead. Funny how things work out. I was prepared to work through the weekend and try to get this off for review for Monday. Turns out I didn’t have to worry about it. Found my groove after a day or two, and it all flowed together smoothly. Nice.
So now it’s Saturday morning, the Strawberry Festival is going on in town, we have one last Taekwondo event today with my eldest daughters belt promotion and accompanying testing. She’ll do great. Always does. Board breaking gets tougher with these new kicks and punches, but she’s tough, and will middle through like everybody else. I’ll put the old belt up on her display, and come September she will go back to class at a new level ready to try for the first degree Black Belt in the new year. We are very proud of her sticking with it and having such great success with taekwondo. I highly recommend it.
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