Started reading Gladwell's "Outliers" last night, which, looking at Goodreads, I see 4 friends have also read. Miss Cupcake felt it grew repetitive, which was something that stalled me reading "Sex at Dawn", so we'll see how far I can get. So far his message is not very inspiring. Interesting in its case examples, but not inspiring. Been keeping pace with Knisely's "Lent is not Rocket Science", not strictly daily but never more than a few days behind. It's not terrible but frankly it's not exactly fuel... (...more)

Lifehacker: coin-toss iluminates decisive emotional biases This was an interesting twist on a decision-making strategy I learned a long time ago. Confronted with a simple binary choice in which the outcome is not terribly important, and the pros and cons of each choice are either unknown or closely matched, the neurotic tends to get "analysis paralysis". The solution is to short-circuit time-consuming analysis, and instead make a snap choice by coin-toss, or on some general principle of convenience. ... (...more)

9:30 service / St Joseph's

Blowing Rocks jaunt stalled out, basically because I didn't want a coffee.

Catch-up with processing notes, to-do listing etc.
Finished my current read, "Date Night on Union Station" (EarthCent series #1)

Woke to the soothing strains of Miss Cupcake making breakfast: coffee, eggs, taylor ham, cheesy grits. wash all the dishes, clothes haircut, trim nails vac bath, trash out Retrieve scans from google drive, integrity check, file in offline repo Update accounts register, toss unneeded receipts 2:15p - 2 Iberia marias cookies, 2nd coffee + 200mg pill Weekly filing, processing catch-up, cull some more file-box stuff Mail mail by 3 backups Lent reading catch-up SUN high tide / Jupit... (...more)

Lay awake til 2, was not exactly chipper this AM. No complaints tho. fuel up: 619.5mi / (10.428 + 11.404) gal = 28.4 mpg finish school pics and docs scans; tuck them in treasure tote * * * Tried every trick I could think of to dodge the bank website disconnect. There's only 2 possibilities I can think of at this point: 1. A service within the bank's network is rejecting requests by our IP/location 2. The ISP is filtering/proxying certificates or traffic at some level our IT guy doesn't know a... (...more)