I never used to lie in before I had kids.
Now that I have kids. I can’t.
This message is brought to you by getting up at 7am on Saturday.
I never used to lie in before I had kids.
Now that I have kids. I can’t.
This message is brought to you by getting up at 7am on Saturday.
From Austin Kleon whose blog is, if you said I could only visit a few websites would be up there.
Also, Kottke’s, another favourite website, reply:
Yes, this. But also: I am torn between a) the knowlege that I need to cut myself some slack and b) the continuous criticism of myself. Working on it!
China is maybe changing tax laws next year which may have a big impact on me. Clear as mud.
Always interesting the cultural differences that pop up when you marry someone with different life experiences.
For example today, Lyra looked at me like she didn’t know me when I made a chip butty at dinner.
I miss a proper chippie dinner with some bread and butter!
I do like reading through the Discover timeline. Especially after reading the recent articles on Facebook and it’s misinformation addictjon
Baltimore restaurant owner drove 6 hours to cook for customer with cancer - The Washington Post
Who’s cutting onions?
I spent some time last night writing down the 8 rules from the link I posted yesterday.
Two things happened to me today as I was driving that made me feel good.
Talking to Rich about albums and he gave me this list. Which I intend to get through eventually, maybe starting with the ones I know I haven’t listened to.
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole
Leftfield - Leftism
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Daft Punk - Homework
Bjork - Homogenic
UNKLE - Psyence fiction
Portishead - Dummy
Orbital - In sides
Photek - Modus Operandi
Goldie - Timeless
These make sense to me.
Do not run away from the thought you may be an idiot as if this were a rare and dreadful insight. Accept the certainty with good grace, in full daylight. You are an idiot but there is no other alternative for a human being.
Success at School vs. Success in Life
“We need to be outwardly entirely obedient while inwardly intelligently and committedly rebellious.”
Is there a simple way for me to make my archives page something other than the giant list it currently is? I just wanted to find something from a year ago and just had to scroll a lot, are there other options?
I wrote this mini-book a year ago today!
It was the start of us coming out of lockdown.
Yet a year later, while we go about quite normally things are still ongoing around the world.
So proud of Elise. She played “car dj” using my phone to play tracks off her playlist and we listened to 3 WHOLE songs. Not 10 seconds of many songs. So proud.
Haim - Rock and Roll Rules Shakira - Try Everything The Rainbooms - Rainbow Rocks
Put Roni Size - New Forms on in the car today and no one complained.
Following up with Goldie - Timeless and rediscovered 4 Hero’s album Two Pages which is just amazing.
What are you missing?
“We didn’t know it was bad, because you seemed okay,” my daughter said. “And if you are okay, then everything else is.”
Parenting in this pandemic has felt like I am the only barrier between my children and the cliff’s edge of the world.
Via Metafilter
I’ve been trying to use my phone and computer less.
Most notifications have been turned off. I’m trying to pick it up less but it’s hard. To be more conscious in my use of both.
But it’s hard.
We organize our lives to maintain the pressures and boundaries we’re used to. We’d like to pretend we’re just going to bear with it until we get through this urgency, but we’re usually lying to ourselves.
A new habit takes at least thirty uncomfortable days to form, and a new habit is unrelated to the external forces (positive and negative) that we’re so good at finding and embracing.
[https://seths.blog/2021/03/oh-the-places-youll-go-back-to/](https://seths.blog/2021/03/oh-the-places-youll-go-back-to/
Album Update
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Anthony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now
Question is, is posting what I’m listening to affecting what I’m listening to?
swissmiss: Home
“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease”.
― Naguib Mahfouz
Seth Godin: Resilience
Resilience is a commitment to a design, an attitude and a system that works even when things don’t turn out the way we planned. Especially then.
There’s more and more smaller coffee shops in the city. Often they’re “Internet famous” for their decor and full of people taking photos of themselves^ but if the coffee is good I’m ok with that.
^Obviously it’s different if we do it!
Didn’t buy it but after messaging British friends will buy one next time FOR SCIENCE!
(It’s not going to be nice.)
How stressed I am seems directly related to the number of times I press the key fob to lock the car.
1 - as good as it gets
5 - normal levels
10- pretty stressed
10 times and then walk 5 minutes and turn round to go back and press 10 times - pretty bad
China has employed blunt but effective quarantine measures to contain Sars-CoV-2 successfully, and life in the country has largely returned to normal. Though it authorised its first vaccines for emergency use in July, just 4% of the country has been vaccinated so far.
“One of the most important contributors is this perception that China has a low risk of infection,” said Yanzhong Huan, director of the Center for Global Health Studies at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. “So people think, why bother to get vaccinated? We’re already safe.”
I find myself thinking that too.
We’ve yet to hear anything from work, who would be our go between for us getting the vaccine, about getting vaccinated.
But while we haven’t, we’re going about as normal… Going to work, going out, not really thinking about infection.
Of course, it’s frustrating not being able to leave the country to see family but…