Stopped for gas en route home last night: 339.8mi / 11.630 gal = 29.2mpg. Coffee, a Krispy Kreme lemon pie, 100mg caf pill, 24g from protein and Nutrigrain bars. It says something about the frequency of my "inner child check-ins" that it wasn't until this morning that I set aside my intellectual armor, to connect with live emotions about Mom's passing. I have said so many times in the past 2 weeks... she was weakened for a long time so we had a head start on making peace with her mortality. She wen... (...more)

Spent my break times pondering the parallels between my procrastinatory work habits, vs. my childhood of anxious/avoidant toilet habits. Somewhere I must have internalized the idea that yes everybody poops but NO ONE SHOULD EVER KNOW. It didn't help that restroom privacy was nothing more than "honor system" in the public school restrooms. ACA's "Big Red Book" gives one explanation for the disordered time use, but I don't think that one puzzle piece explains or solves it all. So if I let tasks back up until... (...more)

Coffee, into the shower ~7:50, out the door ~8:30, on-site ~9:20. Mango protein shake and bluetooth earfons to listen to my library en commute. I used to worry on and off about drowning out road sounds - but the BlueAnt set just don't plug the ear canal that tightly, nor must I crank the volume up enough to lose safe sound contact with the environment. Not dealing with wired headphone wires is a safety plus. 100mg caf on arrival and another 100mg ~1pm. Leftover chx puttanesca 2:30-3. Back/ribs still ach... (...more)

100mg caffeine, 30g mango protein shake. Core muscle strain is healing but not 100% yet. Another 100mg ~11:40. Turns out my healthcare payment portal is tricksy - when I first log in it shows no balance due but if I navigate to payments, it turns out there IS a balance due. Couldn't see how to check the balance on my incentive rewards account, so I just paid as normal. For the longest time I have been confounded by Firefox's inconsistent refusal to honor Ctrl-C/X/V clipboard operations. So for exampl... (...more)

Whatever I did to my core stabilizer muscle system (not just the back - there's a fatigued feeling in my ribs too), it makes it impossible to sleep on my left side in our bed. Which is a problem because I snore on my back and it's fatiguing to sleep on my right side the whole night. Long, meandering dreams about driving around NJ for work, or maybe for an interview plus visiting friends/family? Coffee, bagel w/chevre, protein potion, trimmed hair, dishes to washer, trash out. 10g protein snack bar + f... (...more)