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Fri Jun 25 06:00:01 EDT 2021
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Slept from eleven to six-thirty.
Woke briefly around three.
Showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Work
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- fix VS unit number
Done.
- pay and cancel Anydesk
Done.
- update laptop inventory (Snipe-IT) and costs for Bob
Done.
- review credit card statements
No.
- call Carolyn about printer
Delegated to Randy.
- submit vacation pay form?
No, not sure.
- Does Mike have two laptops??
Delegated to Randy.
Twenty-five minutes walk in the rain at lunch.
As I walked, I repeated like a mantra "feel your feelings but don't let them drown you".
Got a small raise.
Better than nothing, for as long as the job lasts, I guess.
Home
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- pay doctor's bill
Done.
- order moving supplies?
Done.
- watch Headspace meditation videos
Kate texted me an invitation to lunch on Sunday.
I mistakenly though Yvonne had sent it, and ended up calling her.
Told Yvonne about my work situation, and that I was to anxiety-wracked to do lunch.
Here's an idea for a scifi series: somebody invents a post-scarcity machine (cheap fusion energy or whatever) and game out the tomfuckery as entrenched interests scramble to subvert it to preserve their status quo.
Basically, the RIAA war against MP3's taken to greater level.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27599470
https://multiverse.plus/
Looks like a blogging platform with a post editor that leans into MySpace home page or MacPaint.
I don't hate the idea, however:
> I've been a fan of the work both of you do for a while (fraidycat, etc.) and have been pretty excited about multiverse ever since you first started talking about it. However, one thing that has always rubbed me sort of wrong about your stuff is that, as far as I understand, you're employed by Facebook Labs (https://usesthis.com/interviews/kicks.condor/). This interview was the only place I've ever seen that mentioned (and granted it was Nov of last year), so it may no longer be true, but I've always found myself reticent to engage with some of your social experiments because they may be a veiled Facebook R+D project/something that FB would take over if it ever got "too" popular.
Having ordered boxes, tape, and other moving supplies, I'm feeling slightly less anxious this afternoon.
At least, I've done something, even if buying supplies is a lot easier than purging and packing.
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/its-true-stress-does-turn-hair-gray-and-its-reversible
> “Understanding the mechanisms that allow ‘old’ gray hairs to return to their ‘young’ pigmented states could yield new clues about the malleability of human aging in general and how it is influenced by stress,” Picard says.
> “Our data add to a growing body of evidence demonstrating that human aging is not a linear, fixed biological process but may, at least in part, be halted or even temporarily reversed.”
> Reducing stress in your life is a good goal, but it won’t necessarily turn your hair to a normal color.
> “Based on our mathematical modeling, we think hair needs to reach a threshold before it turns gray,” Picard says. “In middle age, when the hair is near that threshold because of biological age and other factors, stress will push it over the threshold and it transitions to gray.
> “But we don’t think that reducing stress in a 70-year-old who’s been gray for years will darken their hair or increasing stress in a 10-year-old will be enough to tip their hair over the gray threshold.”
Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: banana, egg and peppers taco, coffee
Lunch: cucumber, nectarine
Dinner:
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