Day of Recovery

When the alarm rang at 6 am, I realized it was Monday and that there was yoga at night. I wisely skipped morning yoga and opted for more sleep instead. On a roll, I even skipped dim sum with grandma, sleeping until 10 am.

I woke up feeling great! Peaceful, too. I meditated a full hour, which went smoothly. It was as though the turmoil of the past week had passed, and now I was back to being the normal meditation junkie.

Of course, I still continued working on my site as soon as I got out of it.

I’ve decided to reuse my existing blog. Tumblr was not reliable enough, and there would be work needed to get backups, etc. I’ll have to enhance the code to make inputting easier and write a bunch of stuff to connect to other sites. All in due time.

Today I looked at my code for the first time in months. I added functionality to take output from Scrivener and generate a post from it. My tolerance for manual labor has gone down tremendously; computers should automate anything it can, I have limited time as it is. Let me focus on what’s really needed to be done in the world.

Ideally there’d be an option in Scrivener where I can directly publish from it by running some Applescript thing. I don’t know a thing about Applescript, though, so I guess I’ll have to nerd it out a little more. I hear Automator is awesome for what I’m trying to do.

Along the same lines of being a super lazy human, I have been checking out TextExpander. This seems pretty useful, especially for the iPhone.

My mom bought me an eye mask today. I don’t like it when people get me stuff. I’m put in the position where I have to disappoint them by saying I don’t need it, or lie and say thanks. As I type this, I realize that it’s a pretty negative response. Let’s redo this, now with compassion: I love it when people surprise me with gifts! I never know what I can use, and the surprise isn’t just in the material item, but in the fact that they care enough about me to get something for me. Let’s see how I can use my eye mask tonight! I love my mom!

Okay, it’s getting late. Time to meditate and sleep, so I can write some more tomorrow!