Author: Radar

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

Tell me, how many nights have you almost missed the sunset? How many arguments have you almost won? How many mistakes have you almost made? How many cities have you almost flown to? How many snapshots have you almost taken?

Chances are, you don’t remember. No-one does

https://medium.com/@miyahbyrd/the-first-time-i-saw-the-ocean-i-almost-drowned-bcb798745242

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Narrative: I’m skipping the time bullets today. We got up and are drinking our Dominican Coffee this morning, it’s delicious! CF website is down for the next 12 hours so I can’t check on letters today.

Home Assistant: I am still rebuilding the Home Assistant software and scripts from the crash last week. I added the dehumidifier back onto the Raspberry Pi this morning and wrote the routines to turn it on and off. I also updated the HA core software to the latest version today. The file editor plug-in was out of date so I updated that as well. Two of the NodeMCU’s had the old firmware in them, they’ve been updated and connected to the new instance of HA.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

Tell me, how many nights have you almost missed the sunset? How many arguments have you almost won? How many mistakes have you almost made? How many cities have you almost flown to? How many snapshots have you almost taken?

Chances are, you don’t remember. No-one does

https://medium.com/@miyahbyrd/the-first-time-i-saw-the-ocean-i-almost-drowned-bcb798745242

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Narrative: I’m skipping the time bullets today. It’s been a crazy day and long hours at the computer. I started the day on CF’s website trying to find letters that should have been in the system for 6 months or more. The website is pretty clunky for a company who’s five top executives pull a salary of 1.2Million dollars from donations to a non profit. I have been trying to get the letter writing and delivery process repaired for more than three years. We’ve made progress but i’ve also spent hours and hours keeping things moving.

The election has really drained the two of us, hours and hours of video with no end in sight. We are also a little worried that reparations will now be part of the Dem’s agenda and we’re 26T$ in debt even without the latest stimulus package. California and Ashville North Carolina already are engaged on preparing some kind of reparations package. How about all the doctors / Lawyers that got Black only scholarships to pay for their schooling. (Are they getting reparations too?) Anything that they come up with will be paid for by city/state taxes. (Whether they had benefited from slaves or not.) The states are looking to the Feds to bail them out of the COVID-19 costs, where is there all the money that they plan to use for reparations. (It’s certainly not coming from defunding the police.)

We went grocery shopping today and there were no lanes open except the self checkout. Running a full basket of groceries through the self checkout takes a lot of time. We also found out that the self checkout machines don’t have all the produce loaded. (They had Organic Roma tomatoes but not regular ones.) So we had to choose the Organic one and pay the 20c price hike. I checked all the organic tomatoes had stickers, the non organic didn’t have them. The clerk had a sheet to manually enter a code which wasn’t available to everybody using the lanes. I think they aught to give them up for free since they have a price guarantee because every item is not marked with a price.

Mowed the last of the lawn today, i hadn’t used the lawn mower in so long the the battery management discharged the batteries to 20%. That is supposed to extend the battery life but is disruptive to using the batteries in an emergency. (You’d have to charge the batteries just before EVERY emergency to know you could rely on them.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

Tell me, how many nights have you almost missed the sunset? How many arguments have you almost won? How many mistakes have you almost made? How many cities have you almost flown to? How many snapshots have you almost taken?

Chances are, you don’t remember. No-one does

https://medium.com/@miyahbyrd/the-first-time-i-saw-the-ocean-i-almost-drowned-bcb798745242

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• 08:00 Finally got out of bed and poured a cup of coffee.
• 09:00 reading letters from CF.
• 11:00 programming NodeMCU’s for new instance of Home Assistant
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Programming NodeMCU’s to regain control of the garage.
• 14:00 Mowed the side yard
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Writing letters to CF.
• 19:00 Documenting problems with CF website
• 21:00 Bed.

Narrative: Spent most of the day communicating with our sponsored child and Child Fund International.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

We’re sponsoring a child through Christian Children’s Fund AKA Child Fund. It has been a long road of trying to fix the poor communication between us and our sponsored child. We write letters with no knowledge if they ever get to the child. The child writes a letter every month and we don’t get them for a year at a time.

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Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

Tell me, how many nights have you almost missed the sunset? How many arguments have you almost won? How many mistakes have you almost made? How many cities have you almost flown to? How many snapshots have you almost taken?

Chances are, you don’t remember. No-one does

https://medium.com/@miyahbyrd/the-first-time-i-saw-the-ocean-i-almost-drowned-bcb798745242

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• 08:00 Finally got out of bed and poured a cup of coffee.
• 09:00 Crashed Home Assistant, starting over for the third time.
• 10:00 Building a fresh image of Home Assistant on a Pi, blogging
• 11:00 Lunch and still building HA.
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Building HA and reading the news
• 14:00 Mow the front lawn
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 write automations for tonight’s cold weather in Home Assistant.
• 21:00 Bed

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Thursday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

Tell me, how many nights have you almost missed the sunset? How many arguments have you almost won? How many mistakes have you almost made? How many cities have you almost flown to? How many snapshots have you almost taken?

Chances are, you don’t remember. No-one does

https://medium.com/@miyahbyrd/the-first-time-i-saw-the-ocean-i-almost-drowned-bcb798745242

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• 08:00 Finally got out of bed and poured a cup of coffee.
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Checked CF and Searching for USB power supplies
• 15:00 Disassembling USB power supplies for use with these NodeMCU’s.
• 16:00 Nap
• 18:00 Soldering Wires
• 21:00 Writing scripts in Home Assistant to control two heaters
• 23:00 Bed.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Wednesday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

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• 06:00 Up, sipp’n coffee
• 07:00 Blogging
• 08:00 Testing power consumption of house
• 09:00 Getting organized.
• 10:00 Working in the attic to insulate the ducts.
• 12:00 Nap time
• 14:00 Back in the attic working on the ducts.
• 16:00 Dinner, Salad
• 17:00 Mow half the front lawn.
• 18:00 Watching TV with the Wife
• 19:00 Watching “The Abyss”
• 20:00 Blogging
• 21:00 Getting ready for bed.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Tuesday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the rehab.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow. There’s a 8″ and a 10″ trunk which is 600CFM, we need one more 8″ duct from the plenum to make 800CFM.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

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• 03:00 Up, sipp’n coffee

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up and pay 2K in taxes by December.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

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• 07:00 Up sipp’n coffee.
• 08:00 Blogging
• 09:00 Blogging
• 10:00 Zooming
• 11:00 Lunch
• 12:00 A/C Pipe seal and insulate.
• 15:00 Nap
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Reading the news
• 18:00 Blogging
• 21:00 Bed

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

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• 07:00 Up sipp’n coffee.
• 08:00 Grocery Shopping
• 09:00 Getting organized, document thermostat, eat breakfast.
• 10:00 Early Nap.
• 12:00 Reading CF letters and another Nap
• 14:00 Getting organized and eating a salad
• 15:00 Reading CF letters and cleaning living room.
• 16:00 Shower and another Nap.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Watching Paranormal Activity.
• 19:00 Watching Arrival
• 21:00 Bed

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room. I have to run a new duct to the living room and bedroom to give the air handler more flow.

Need to sort the church audio stuff and get it back into storage. (out of the living room and Bedroom) Then get the stuff I moved from my cave out of the living room.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

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• 07:00 Up sipp’n coffee.
• 08:00 Grocery Shopping
• 09:00 Getting organized, document thermostat, eat breakfast.
• 10:00 Early Nap.
• 12:00 Reading CF letters and another Nap
• 14:00 Getting organized and eating a salad
• 15:00 Reading CF letters and cleaning living room.
• 16:00 Shower and another Nap.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Watching Paranormal Activity.
• 19:00 Watching Arrival
• 21:00 Bed

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

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Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To