Terrible Ideas

by

Dan Jewett

Kilroy is watching you.

This is a woodblock print depicting a Japanese temple from the Showa period. There is a gentle snow falling and in front of the temple a person with an umbrella walks away from us leaving footprints in the snow.
Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji)

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957).
Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji).
Showa period, 1927. Woodblock print.

With the colder months approaching, I look forward to the possibility of experiencing the sense of peace this beautiful print elicits.


I began to move towards zero carbohydrate consumption earlier this year. It was not sudden and I had dallied and experimented with the concept for a while before that. I experienced periods of low-carb intake followed by periods of complete loss of appetite control. The intensity of the binge-eating was alarming and prompted me to be more serious about the experiment.

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"I have a concept of a plan," resonates so much with me and let's be real, everyone, because well,...guilty as charged.
But I can own that I procrastinate and that my personal failings are often the source of my anxiety and lack of focus and direction. The Republican candidate lacks the ability for any such self-reflection and therefore also has only "a concept of a man."
Which concept is severely broken.


Up early to make sure I experience all the satisfaction of the day after. The day after Kamala Harris handed that shit talking bridge-troll the one part of his body that isn't the color of dried apricot.


Looks like I'm getting back to a schedule more like I kept when I was coaching. A 4am wake up wasn't planned but I don't mind it. I don't really differentiate weekends from weekdays anymore.
Good morning all.


Confession.
Time to completion using Claude.ai to solve my Django Admin tagging issue: Longer than I hoped.
Time to completion without Claude's help: ∞


Well it took most of the morning, but I was able to implement a better way of adding and editing tags for posts in the Django admin. Used the Select2 library loaded from a cdn. Will try doing it with the Django-Select2 package next.


The use of the word 'like' in every phrase uttered by these two student radio DJs has the effect of numbing my ears.

I imagine being buried in a snowfall of the word until nothing in the aural landscape is discernible. My fingers remain warm.


Disarray

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