FIFA is hell-bent on making the 2026 World Cup the stupidest sporting event in history - impressive to see NFT raise its ugly, stupid, money-grubbing head. Kinda glad I don't care about soccer.

Also funny... Trump threatening to move to block games in Foxboro because he doesn't like Boston's mayor.

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My grown up babies, the reason I breathe, the reason I hold my breath

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Republicans are cheating a**holes. Swear in the duly elected representative, and take your lumps as the Epstein files get opened.

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Thinking about my current "stressed" mood.

Some of it is caused by my Todo list.

20 odd years ago I was really into David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology. (Looking back I see that's where I got the guideline of, if it takes 2 minutes or less, just do it now.) Actually I corresponded with him just a bit.

Funny looking at this page where I outline my "ultimate Todo program"

Over the years I've drifted from some of GTD's suggestions (especially in terms of categorizing things). And I wonder if I'm hurt or helped by my "daily grind" category, things that popup every day - diary entries, previewing the day, etc)

But I also think about how much has changed for me in 20 years:
1. the rise of social media and how it clamors for attention
2. I suspect the ever increasing volume of inbox stuff
3. having connected phones rather than offline PDAs
4. My life with its band commitments 1-4 times a week
5. A national political scene that has gotten weirder and more authoritarian. It used to be just the idiocy and lies of Iraq War 2 and a sleepy response to Katrina.

I dunno. This post seemed to have more of a point when I started it. :-D

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Yet another evening I close my eyes, pinch the bridge of my nose, take two short sharp breaths and remind myself millions of people led satisfying, meaningful lives during the fall of the Roman Empire.

These things are slower than we remember, sometimes.

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I've been feeling on edge lately. Not sure why.

I hate that I can't compare how stressed I might feel now with how I've felt at earlier times in my life. Feelings come and go and the rough edges of memory get eroded by the passage of time.

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We're saving Christianity. We've saving God.

That's... quite the theological stance there, buddy. As Jon Favreau put it "We've moved rather quickly from "God saved Trump" to "Trump is saving God," which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?"

Her eyes beat dust out of the tapestry until it was bright. Was she "a little bit high all the time"? Had the sickness blazed new pathways and cast light on tangled old ones? To be sure, she had forgotten the multiplication tables, and now felt there was a secret number between two and three.

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"I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she wrote, "but I live completely in the present now."

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"Any preexisting anxiety?" the doctor asked.
"...No," she said very quietly, though in fact she was the kind of child who was scared not only of the fireworks but of the half hour it took to find parking before the fireworks.

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What does this sentence mean to you: *The more closely you look at a word the more distantly it looks back?*

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Amazed at how Lynette can floss in the shower. But I'm not sure why I have to use a mirror to help guide me. It's not like I'm seeing much of anything in there.

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Of course reading Lockwood's latest fever dream book is making me want to try and write in these little prose-poetry autobiographical snippets. But I guess that was the format I had when I wrote in my PalmPilot journal. (For a hot minute Twitter caught that vibe, for both me and Lockwood I guess, though she got kinda famous with it)

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At work someone mentions they are removing an old defunct project's code repository. That makes me a little melancholy. It reminds me of that IKEA Lamp commercial - where they pull every heart string to make a lamp being discarded curbside feel like abandoning a dog, and then mock the viewer for feeling bad for the lamp "Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you're crazy. It has no feelings! And the new one is much better."

(But if you're read "Still Life with Woodpecker" - maybe we shouldn't be disdainful of objects just because they are inanimate. And we have to take this IKEA shill's word for it that the "new one is much better", that it's not just am example of fashion driven waste.)

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ahaha I was dropping off a tuba and got on the HONK! news coverage (playing at about 20s in, a few lines about HONK! community at 1:40) ahahahaha guess Qatar gets what it pays for buying Trump a big shiny jet for Air Force 1.

Plotting about the end of the world makes people crazy. Billionaires maybe a few dozen times so.