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Fri Aug 12 07:55:15 EDT 2016
Slept from around eleven to seven. Woke briefly once, I think, but I can't remember for sure.
High of ninety. Cloudy. 40% chance of thunderstorms.
Goals:
Work:
- Check for pfSense upgrades
Done.
Nothing yet.
- Follow up with Liz at Bullseye re HZ cable modem
Done.
- Continue work on emergency maintenance system
Done.
Asterisk still hasn't crashed. I think we might be past that particular bit of nastiness.
Got a new desk chair. Not Herman Miller, but not bad. Put it together in lieu of a walk.
https://www.amazon.com/Lorell-Executive-High-Back-Chair-Fabric/dp/B000Q5XTE8
Home:
- Update FreeBSD
Done.
--- blinky 8:09AM ~ % uname -a
FreeBSD blinky.devilghost.com 10.3-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu Aug 11 18:38:15 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
- Work on D&D stuff
Done.
- Spare hard drive for dad and Yvonne?
Done.
I had one, secure wiped it, and called Yvonne to let her know.
http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber
One by one, acts that had seemed outrageous to him began to seem not so crazy: soloing moves in which he hangs only by his fingers, for example, with his feet swinging in the open air, or, as he did in June on a notorious route called The Complete Scream, climbing ropeless up a pitch that he had never ascended before. In 12 years of free solos, Honnold has broken holds, had his feet slip, gotten off-route into unknown terrain, been surprised by animals like birds and ants, or just suffered “that fraying at the edges, you know, where you’ve just been up in the void too long.” But because he managed to deal with these problems, he gradually dampened his anxieties about them.
To Marie Monfils, who heads the Monfils Fear Memory Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, Honnold’s process sounds like an almost textbook, if obviously extreme, approach to dealing with fear. Until recently, Monfils says, most psychologists believed that memories—including fear memories—became “consolidated,” or unchangeable, soon after they were acquired. In just the past 16 years, that understanding has shifted. Research has shown that every time we recall a memory, it undergoes reconsolidation, meaning we are able to add new information or a different interpretation to our remembrance, even turning fearful memories into fearless ones.
Honnold keeps a detailed climbing journal, in which he revisits his climbs and makes note of what he can do better. For his most challenging solos, he also puts a lot of time into preparation: rehearsing the moves and, later, picturing each movement in perfect execution. To get ready for one 1,200-foot-high ascent at the cutting edge of free soloing, he even visualized everything that could possibly go wrong—including “losing it,” falling off, and bleeding out on the rock below—to come to terms with those possibilities before he left the ground.
Revisiting memories to cast them in a new light, Monfils says, is almost certainly something that we do all the time without being aware of it. But doing so actively, as Honnold did, is better—“a beautiful example of reconsolidation.”
Visualization—which we might think of as pre-consolidation, whereby a person pictures a future event rather than a past one—functions in much the same way. “To review move after move, you’d expect that he did consolidate his motor memory and as a result probably had an increased sense of competence,” Monfils says. Feelings of competence, in turn, have been shown to reduce anxiety, which helps to explain why, for example, people who are fearful of public speaking (as Honnold used to be, by the way) feel less anxious about it as they do it more often and develop their skills.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110352289066114829231/posts/3ahJBDZS8zD
What's your easy go-to for "Oh fuck I need an adventure today?"
Might make a nice zine issue theme: have several quick adventure generation methods.
Breakfast: mixed greens, carrots, cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of yogurt, coffee with half-and-half
Lunch: Thai catfish
Dinner: Tubby's steak sub
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