Archive for September, 2016
Conflicting bookery
Perhaps not the best combination: reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth while my workout audiobook is Connie Willis’s Blackput. Death and destruction in all directions đ And I keep hearing the refrain, “For, Willie McBride, it all happened again, and again and again and again and again.”
high-tech sleeping
Sleeping is getting way too high tech lately. Yesterday I had an especially hard workout – 11km, including a warm-up followed by 2 sets of 2km at aerobic threshold, then 3km at marathon pace. So I actually headed up to bed a little early, and slept until the alarm went off, unusually for me. (Usually […]
the time before fear – and a very modern annoyance
The notes app I’ve been using for years, since I got my first iPhone, Fliq Notes does not seem to be playing well with iOS 10 – and as far as I can tell, they’re not supporting it for iPhones any more at all. I can open notes, but I can’t edit or even copy […]
confused
This latest thing with athletes kneeling during the US national anthem confuses the heck out of me. I support anyone’s right to protest peacefully, of course, as a form of free speech; it’s just that Iâd have thought that kneeling was a deeper expression of respect than standing. I grew up in a religion that […]
mortality, again, and math
That whole mortality thing yesterday had me thinking about math and time. My online friend’s husband did die yesterday, and she mentioned that they’d had 61 years together. My parents had 50, and one set of grandparents were just shy of that. Ted comes from a longer-lived family; his parents just hit 50 years (that […]
mean-spiritedness and mortality
I had a slightly frustrating conversation today; someone told me in so many words that she doesnât want people to be able to go to college for free because âwell, we had to pay for ours!â taxes, but this didnât even seem to be that. I think this person would be shocked if I called […]