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Thu Dec 26 06:00:01 EST 2019
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Slept from midnight to eight.
Cloudy.
Areas of fog in the morning.
A 30 percent chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
- 4:30 PM Gorman family dinner
https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh5UjNNc0v4C&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=%22thomas+massey-massey+was+introducing+a+motion+to+change%22&source=bl&ots=bKNYpCaQfA&sig=ACfU3U2Zynk3AjRp23MAV9EKNruYhg4fZQ&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEiIPaudPmAhUXLs0KHVzqDikQ6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22thomas%20massey-massey%20was%20introducing%20a%20motion%20to%20change%22&f=false
> A member of parliament, Thomas Massey-Massey, was introducing a motion to change the name of Christmas to Christ-tide, on the grounds that mass is a Catholic festival, inappropriate to a Protestant country. He was interrupted by a member opposite who asked him how he would like to be called "Thotide Tidey-Tidey". The bill as forgotten in the uproar.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/23/drones-mystery-colorado/
> A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft.
> The drones, estimated to have six-foot wingspans, have been flying over Phillips and Yuma counties every night for about the last week, Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott said Monday.
> The drones stay about 200 feet to 300 feet in the air and fly steadily in squares of about 25 miles, he said. There are at least 17 drones; they emerge each night around 7 p.m. and disappear around 10 p.m., he said.
> “They’ve been doing a grid search, a grid pattern,” he said. “They fly one square and then they fly another square.”
> One resident who spotted a drone last week gave chase, Elliott said, driving behind it at about 50 mph, but lost the drone when he ran out of gas in Washington County.
> The machines fly too high to be heard from the ground but can be seen by their strobing white lights along with red, blue and green lights, Myers said.
> Myers suspects the drones might be operated by a private company, although the machines haven’t targeted any obvious landmarks or features — sometimes they fly over towns, other times over empty fields.
> “They do not seem to be malicious,” Elliott said. “They don’t seem to be doing anything that would indicate criminal activity.”
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/05/what-kurt-vonnegut-taught-us-about-the-science-of-happiness/
> Vonnegut writes, quoting his uncle: “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
> In his book, Dr. Hanson says that most of us don’t stay with positive experiences long enough for them to be “encoded” into our brain’s neural structure.
> He goes on to say: “The longer the (brain cell) neurons fire, the more of them that fire, and the more intensely they fire, the more they’re going to wire that inner strength—that happiness, gratitude, feeling confident, feeling successful, feeling loved and lovable.”
> In other words, if you let a moment of happiness pass without being intentional about taking it in, it won’t stay with you.
> Which is why Vonnegut’s advice is so profound: stop in the moment of your bliss and acknowledge it.
Yesterday, it was nice sitting side by side with my sister, our backs against the wall by Yvonne's dining table, comfortably chatting, joking, and watching the kids run around.
Twenty-minute walk in the late afternoon.
Vacuumed.
https://neal.fun/
Watched Don't Fuck With Cats on Netflix.
Went into this thinking it was fiction.
Interesting.
This guy seems to have cast his crimes and acted for surveillance cameras.
Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: pineapple, celery
Lunch: cucumber, two quesadillas with avocado
Dinner:
126/81
-19
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