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Tue Apr 14 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Colder. Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 10 to 20 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Fix FL NVR Done. - Track thin client shipments Done. - Test remote support software Done. - Start ordering thin clients for Phase 2 properties? Wait till we verify at least one of the phase 1 units work (on Friday or Monday). - Research Entrata approval routes Done. - Call Sherri Done. The root filesystem on my machine flipped into read-only mode this morning. Had to reboot and fsck. What the hell? Nothing in the logs. Having an unusually hard time giving the slightest fuck about work today. High anxiety. Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch. Cool. The sun shown through the clouds a couple times. Tender green leaves on many of the bushes. Sort of a productive work afternoon, despite my lack of motivation in the morning. Home ---------------------------------------- - Change sheets and towels Done. Epicurus: > The most terrible evil, death, is nothing for us, since when we exist, death does not exist, and when death exists, we do not exist. https://dailystoic.com/epicureanism-vs-stoicism/ > The Epicureans understood that sensual pleasure was fleeting, and would quickly move over into its opposite if chased too vehemently. What is important is the Greek term Eudaimonia, which is often translated as happiness, but has little to do today with what we call happiness (the bubbly, pleasurable sensation that accompanies agreeable outcomes and events). Perhaps a better translation would be “Flourishing of life”. A key difference is that for the Greeks “the good life” didn’t end after you were dead, but also included your legacy moving down the generations, your influence and effect on the world. It would take many years after a person’s death to determine if they had in fact lived the good life. Accordingly, the Epicureans advocated moderation in things, and a balanced, “agreeable” life that pursued the “higher pleasures” of fraternity, self improvement, and freedom from the fear of death, which they thought would result in the freedom of all fear. > > They saw anxiety as the great thorn in mankind’s side, and their philosophical project was to rid themselves of it, identifying that anxiety had its root in the fear of death, but as fear of death only makes sense if one believes in the permanence of the soul, and/or living a life steeped in regret (as in the regret of missed opportunities), acknowledging atomic materialism (when I am here death is not, when death is here I am not) and living life to its fullest (Carpe diem, Sieze the day!) one could have no reason to fear death, so could live their one and only life in satisfaction, and upon their death bed have no fear for what will happen next, and no regret over what they should have done. https://nextdraft.com/something-something-something-murder/ > This is confusing by design as such research papers are not meant to be understood by laypersons and the really good ones are not meant to be understood by Malcolm Gladwell, lest he write a book about it and give it a pithy title like “Blink” or “Outliers” Started watching the HBO dramedy Barry. Pretty good, but I'm more into the comedy than the drama elements. New COVID-19 dashboard: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map https://bao.arcgis.com/covid-19/jhu/county/26125.html Michigan COVID-19 cases: 1366 new; 27001 total Deaths: 166 new; 1768 total Total MI tests: ??? Michigan's rate of increase: 123% → 115% → 118% → 112% → 110% → 110% → 110% → 107% → 106% → 106% → 105% → 103% → 104% → 105% (today) MI recovered (4/10/2020): 433 Oakland country: 5364 cases; 364 deaths Oakland country ranked #21 (#23 yesterday) globally. Oakland county new cases: 327 → 214 → 281 → 276 → 191 → 345 → 356 → 271 → 240 → 264 → 291 → 113 → 158 → 291 (today) U.S. new tests: 129,114 Not great numbers today. More new cases, more deaths, fewer tests. Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 3/3, nuts 1/0.5 Breakfast: chili spaghetti Brunch: cucumber, coffee Lunch: sandwich Afternoon snack: pear Dinner: chicken, rice, tomato -26

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