So last night I copied my 8GB Truecrypt backup volume off of my external drive into my Copy.com sync folder, and let it start syncing. Overnight I got another 10GB bonus space from referrals, up to 30GB now. The sync is Sssssslow-y slow S L O W, probably mostly because I decided to do this over wireless instead of pulling an ethernet cable out of my box of networking odds and ends. It ran overnight, and all day today. I should have taken note of the start time, I'm guessing it was around 10PM, so now after 6PM we're over 20 hours for an 8GB sync.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Truecrypt volumes partition file contents the same way a regular device does, not recalculating the whole crypt on every change. What gives me hope of that is that TC would be insufferably slow on large crypts if one file change forced recalc of the whole crypt.

So then I paused Copy.com syncing, mounted the Truecrypt crypt as a drive, run a backup job via Cobian (53 files changed), unmount the TC volume, and unpause syncing. What happens then?

At first... Nothing! ...because TrueCrypt preserves the file's create-date and modified-date attributes. So using the "Touch for Windows" utility from Sourceforge (installed in \windows\system32 for future reference), I did touch "[filename.tc]", and the sync triggered.

As feared, the UI applet says it's syncing 7GB. But that dropped to 6GB in 10 minutes or less, 5GB in ~20 minutes, and finished in 30 or less. So I can only conclude Truecrypt fully advantages Copy.com's delta-sync feature.

* * *

Went to bed shortly after midnight, slept fairly well and woke in plenty of time to fiddle with Castle Age before church. I had hoped to meet Jane at CSL but I didn't call yesterday to confirm, and she didn't show. Which is OK, I got a sense of what it's about.

1. "Science of Mind" seminary structure reminds me a lot of Scientology
2. $8 for a CD recording of the day's sermon? lol
3. I missed the traditional hymnal at HSC and I'd miss it here
4. Thoroughly unconvinced by the sermon itself; sounded like a pack of fluff and talking in circles
5. If I ever toss irrelevant humor into a sermon, somebody please shoot me
6. Ernest Holmes' so-called "Science of Mind" is basically positive-thinking guru-ism, which encourages people to reject conventional evidence-based medicine in favor of chanting affirmations. (q.v. Louise Hay)
7. I won't go so far as to say that the whole organization is a self-certifying pyramid scheme, but it is certainly highly vulnerable to exploitation by callous charismatics

Affirmation: malarkey or effective way?
Affirmation sounds like it should be a valuable tool in the cognitive behavioral therapy toolbox. It can help shape and reinforce healthy cognitive habits. I think the point at which Science of Mind blows it, is the same threshold where people mistakenly conclude that if one RDA dosage of vitamin Q keeps you healthy, then multi-doses or mega-doses will make you a god. If affirmation is a crescent wrench, Science of Mind tries to sell it as the hammer, screwdriver set, hex key and wood saw. I don't care what Louise Hay says, HIV does not respond to affirmation. Depression and anxiety associated with HIV might, but the virus itself will progress regardless.

So we have to ask - if we are all incarnations of God and we all have everything we need to survive and thrive just by opening ourselves to our oneness with God and the magical universe... then why are children starving and dying of preventable diseases in Africa? Aren't they God too? Don't they also have everything they need to survive and thrive in perfect health? What of babies born severely mentally disadvantaged? How are they supposed to manifest perfect health through affirmation, when they're too retarded to even feed themselves? How does any baby get sick in the first place? Because they want to? Doesn't that mindset ultimately conclude with blaming the victim?

If we're all incarnations of God, then aren't Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Joseph Kony all God too? How could God be so evil? Doesn't that subvert the major progressive ideological stride of the last 2000 years, that God is all good and only good? If Hitler and Kony are incarnations of God, then I don't think I want anything to do with God! If Hitler and Kony are God, heck even if I am God, then God is not good, certainly less than great.

* * *

After church, run #229, in which I weighed-in at 182.7ish on the crappy bath scale in the trainers' office, which I estimate to be about 4-5# high, so 178#? First 1.25mi at 5.5mph, .25mi cooldown, 1mi at 5.7mph, cooldown and the final half-mile at 6.7mph for a total of 3.3mi/44:04 and 430 kcal.

Resisted the urge to hit up Total Wine on the way home. Second Coffee followed by smoothie #4. It's safe to say the daily diet journal is abandoned, as I tried to reboot the habit several times but it didn't quite take. Last entry was 6/16, and only 12 entries total since 3/1. But I thought it'd be handy to record the protein index value of a smoothie into my protein index table:

Dinner was a scramble dog wrap (36g / 447 kcal), I killed the last of the ice cream during the day, and I had a couple pieces of Pubilx whole wheat bread with PB for breakfast, so I got my kcals certainly and 85g+ protein.