(Written on the 8th from notes taken previously)
Not really going to be much of a post for today… Likely going to be a bit disjointed.
Did sort of a partial morning routine this morning, missing some of my normal things.
I recorded myself reading scriptures to memorize later, so that was good. There have been a lot of verses lately that have really stuck out to me, and I want to have them at automatic recall whenever I want them, so I’m going to be recording them and adding them to my playlist of scriptures that I’ve memorized and am trying to memorize.
I spent some time working online, on and off while doing other things, and I spent a good little while chatting with my brother Richard.
Worked some more, vacuumed my van out, trying to get all the fiberglass out. I think I succeeded decently well. 🎉
I spent some time trying to find all of my old book notes and outlines for the Education for Eternity book that I started writing way back in 2010.
(I’m finally going to get around to writing it 🙃)
It was kind of funny that I found all of my old documents, but the only one that I couldn’t open was the actual draft that I was working on. I had forgotten that I had password protected it, for whatever reason I can’t fathom now, but Word couldn’t open it anyway.
My brother Richard helped me figure out that it was an Open Office file extension, and that’s why it wouldn’t open with Word as a password-protected file. So I downloaded Open Office, gratefully remembered the password to the file, and was able to open it.
Interestingly, my entire draft is only a handful of pages long. 😆 I could have sworn I had a really good outline and a decent draft of the first good little bit, but I guess not.
After looking at everything, I think I’m pretty much just going to start all over, as it’s been almost 9 years since the last time I worked on it.
Wow.
Time flies.
My perspectives, though the same in many ways, I think of changed enough that I don’t know that I would go about the book the same way.
I guess I’ll find out. 😊
I spent a little bit of time with Heather and Hans talking about the potential siding and interior wall design options, while at the same time trying to help my oldest brother with an issue with his van and texting another friend at the same time. 🙃
I think somewhere around 6:30, I headed out in Hans’ truck to a neighborhood meeting party at the entrance to the neighborhood. It’s country living, so the smallest property, I think, is like 5 acres?
And it’s a flying community, at least a decent chunk of it, as there’s a grand air strip right down the middle of the neighborhood, and airplane hangers everywhere. 😊
Anyway, the neighborhood gets together to help take care of the road, so I headed out with the weed eater, as the weeds have gone nuts with all the rain we’ve got lately.
I’m going to make the recommendation that they don’t have weed-eating party. Pretty much everything that we spent a good long time weed eating could have easily just been mowed with the riding lawn mower, which I think most people probably have around here?
It would only take moving a handful of rocks that are in the way and maybe scraping away some of the bumpier spots. Doing that would probably take about as much time as it would take to weed eat once, and then you can just mow the rest of the year. 🙃
After I got back, I spent a little time helping Hans with the garage foundation buildup (I went around smashing the pieces of fieldstone that were bigger than what should be in build up. There’s a lot that needs to be moved in order to get that done.
The rest of the night was spent discussing house plan stuff, eating dinner, and discussing house plans stuff more.
I had house plan stuff on my mind so much that I can’t fall asleep, letting myself get stressed out about it (until after 2:30 a.m., I think 😅).
Oh well. Today is enough. What I get done today is enough.
So given how my life is now, I’m starting to think that it’s going to be better to journal during the day while I’m working, as I think maybe it’s going to be pretty easy to do both at the same time? And maybe that’ll be a better use of my time?
I think I’m going to try that. We’ll see how it goes. 😅
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful for Richard having the knowledge and being able to help me figure out why I couldn’t get my file open.
- I’m grateful to at least be making some basic steps toward working on this book again. Little by little.
- I’m grateful to be able to have the knowledge to help out friends and family with their cars when they have issues.
- I’m grateful to be able to move around enough to have been able to help in the weed-eating project.
Success:
- I was outward focused.
Improvement:
- I let myself get stressed out and pretty full of negative energy in the late and wee hours. No need for that. Want to just… let it go.
Loves. 😊
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
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