Today I felt the pretty strong pull of one of my other addictions–sports news.
It’s been building for the last couple of days or so. I sometimes check the Utah news on ksl.com (even though I don’t live in Utah anymore, and though there are plenty of things I don’t much like about utah, there’s a part of me that still considers Utah home, so I still look at the news here and there).
Anyway, I sometimes check the news in utah, and the last few days, there have been headlines about the BYU football team being undefeated. I still have quite a bit of pride for the state of utah, whether in sports (the particular school is not important to me if it’s school sports), business, landscape, whatever, byu, or the University of utah, or any one of the schools or any one of the sports teams or whatever, really just anything about utah. So when something/somebody/some team is going to represent Utah well, I like paying attention to it.
So with BYU doing really well, apparently, this year, that has piqued my interest, and I feel the pull to dig back in and see what the rest of the world is saying about the team, and what the standings look like, and what the odds are of them staying undefeated, etc.
Which of course doesn’t matter a lick in the grand scheme of things, and which of course would draw me in very quickly to the point that I would very likely get sucked in for a long period of time perhaps days, weeks, months, years before I freed myself from it once again.
Anyway, so… There’s that. 🙃
That said, I haven’t given in to the temptation, and I’m riding in my journal, and I’m getting ready to head to bed, if you can believe it, on time (it’s 8:14 right now). 🤞
I don’t want anything to have mastery over me. Sports news has been my master for much of my life. I will not allow it to be again.
Nope. Not gonna.
It was actually a slower day today work wise. I had a full day scheduled for david, but I had one job postpone until Monday and one sort of disappear off the map and stop replying to me.
So, it was a short day for David, and unfortunately, I don’t think it was that well paying because of it.
I got up at 5:30 today, making progress, but still definitely fighting to get back to the routine I had established before that night I decided to work late. It really is amazing to me how much one poor choice in going to bed late can affect the following days and weeks. But tomorrow I should be back on track, hopefully for a good solid while.
The only thing I missed today of my morning dailies was my servicise. I’ve been walking a whole time, but I haven’t been getting any cardio in, at least not much to mention. So I’m burning plenty of fat, but I don’t really have that much to burn anyway, and what I’m really needing is lung stamina. The walking is certainly good for me, and good for my asthmatic lungs, but still not where I want to be.
Prayer, meditationish, memorizations while walking all over the property, family study with Mom, breakfast, 5x5s, getting David going, spend and spending about an hour trying to work on my book, per the commitment I made to Cory yesterday.
I got my sales tax for October turned in today, turned out to be a really good month–I think one of the best my business has had. I also taught my mom how to do more of the sales tax preparation and submission stuff. Hopefully in the future, if she wants to, she will be able to do the rest of the sales tax submission process.
I spent probably five or six hours working on that motorhome today. And just when I was about ready to give up, I finally figured out the problem: The colors of the wires in the various wiring harnesses didn’t match, so when I spliced on the new connector, two of the wires were backwards.
I still might not be out of the woods yet. We’ll see. It’s been a nightmare so far, but… We’re making progress. Cross your fingers, not much left.
The pump now works. Still need to make sure the fuel level sensor is okay after the crossed wires, and need to put the tank on and put the driveshaft back on.
What a job. It’s been crazy.
Also spent time trying to help my mom find another vehicle. We’re trying to get one that’s bigger and safer.
#1. I’m grateful to have had the courage to stay away from sports news.
#2. As much as I’m not really thrilled about the current state of the presidency, I was really unhappy with both of our candidates, but if I’m looking at the silver lining, at least we might finally have a president who will act presidential. I don’t feel like we’ve had a president who actually acted like a president since George W Bush. I felt like we slid pretty hard with Obama, and I felt like we fell off a cliff with Trump (as far as acting presidential is concerned). So, I will say that I’m grateful for the hope that we might finally have another president who acts like a president.
#3. I’m grateful to have gotten that motor home running.
#4. I’m grateful for the progress I have made re-memorizing all the old scriptures I once had memorized.
#5. I’m grateful to be on time for bed tonight.
#6. I’m grateful to be more than two weeks clean with my porn/masturbation. The unscripted verbalizing of my deepest desires when I find myself tempted has been invaluable.
‘Tis the end of another day. A new day dawns and only a handful of hours.
Bring it on.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 