Well, it’s 6:30 right now, and I’m getting a jump on riding my journal entry because I’m likely going to be driving to Casper tonight, or at least a good chunk of the way tonight, and I want to be as ready to just fall asleep as I possibly can be when I decide to stop for the night.
So here we go. 🙃
Don’t think I ended up getting to bed until somewhere around 2:30? 😅 Pretty funny that I was so good and so ready to be in bed at a better time last night… and it ended up being one of the worst ones.
For whatever reason, it took me about 3 hours to write my journal entry, even though I’m dictating. I have… no explanation. 🙃
And then I think I stayed up watching uplifting YouTube videos. 😶 Which, as my sister said today, is better than non-uplifting YouTube videos, but I still should have just gone to bed.
I also refrained from killing the flies that were inside the van that I couldn’t get out because I had compassion and didn’t want to hurt them, which I don’t always have, and which ended up backfiring a bit because when it started getting light outside only a couple two or three hours or so later, they started flying around, buzzing around my head, landing on my face, etc.
Not the most effective circumstance for trying to sleep. 🙃
I kept trying to sleep and was able to fall back asleep periodically, but eventually, I gave up, a tad frustrated with the flies and the irony of my attempts to have compassion on the little creatures.
When I finally got up for good, it was just about the time that Heather was going to be leaving for work, so I decided to get my little butt out of bed and greet her for the day before she headed out.
I did a decent number of my dailies, chatted with the Big Guy, and made inroads on learning how to edit the metadata on the audio files that I want to have in my bank of uplifting recordings to listen to/memorize. They’ve been harder to organize because all the apps try to Auto organize everything based on of the metadata, and the metadata is often not just useless, but counterproductive.
Anyway, so it was nice to learn how to edit that. I’m going to have to import all the files back to my computer, update every single file one by one, and then download them back to my phone after deleting all the old ones, and then I should be good.
That’s a whole lot of effort, but it will make it so that when I import new stuff it will have the proper metadata, because I will add it on each new one, and then it can go where it needs to go without me having no clue what a given file is because all the apps base their organization on the metadata and not on the file names themselves.
Anyway, I succeeded in finding an app, that actually might have been one of the things I did last night? Succeeded in finding an app that looks like it’s going to work, that can speed up files and repeat files and let me organize them into playlists and folders and whatnot.
It’s amazing to me how many apps don’t give some of those basic options, but you don’t know that until you download it and then try and use it. I think I’ve tried maybe 5 or 6 different apps? I had one that was working relatively well, in fact it was working really well, except it didn’t have the ability to speed up recordings.
And having grown so used to listening to YouTube videos at summer between 2X and 3x+ speed often times, it can be hard to focus when everything feels so slow.
Anyway, so big positive. Lots of work on the horizon for happy organization, but really nice to finally have this nailed down.
I hope. 🤞
After all the morning stuff, I ate breakfast, got some to-dos done, mucked out the barn, dragged the poop, filled the backhoe with fuel, and then pretty much spent the rest of the day answering questions online while manually trying to finish the dirt work that needs to be done to get the septic drain field taken care of.
Chatted with Heather a little bit after she got home, and I’m hanging out to eat dinner with Heather and Hans before driving to Wyoming, which I’ll be doing twice this week. 🙃 (Temple trips both Tuesday [for myself] and then Saturday with Heather, Hans, and the stake).
Good stuff. 😊
Gonna be another late night, though, as I still need to take a bath and then drive 2 1/2 hours + tonight. 😬
Septic middle channel first and done.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful I’m able to have been able to go through the day today and not be completely exhausted, despite not getting much sleep.
- I’m grateful to have been able to make at least a small dent in the dirt work that needs to be done to finish up the drain field.
- I’m grateful that Hans was prepared with diesel fuel cans, so that I could top off the diesel fuel in the backhoe before they took it back today, which they finally did, miracle of miracle. 😆
- I’m grateful that Zora has been safe and hasn’t fallen into any of the ditches we’ve dug.
- I’m grateful that Heather and Hans let me have one of their big super heavy duty trash bags. I’m going to use it to sort of seal up Little John. After every time I use it, the huge, thick, black trash bag will get twisted and then tucked around, so that it’s quasi sealed. (I’ve been having issues with flies getting in there because little unthinking me would take it outside to dry out during the day, not thinking about the fact that flies would get in there and lay eggs, and then I’d end up with maggots everywhere. Which… had happened I think at least three times. 😆 I finally realized what was happening, so I don’t set Little John out to dry out anymore. 🙃 And the big black trash bag might give me another layer of both fly and smell protection. I couldn’t really smell it at all during the cold months, but now that it’s hot, you can get little whiffs of Little John here and there, most notably while driving down the road with the windows open. I think this will make a pretty sizable difference.
Success:
- I gave my sincere and worthy effort today. (Not that I don’t other days, but I’m going to start acknowledging that as a reminder for myself).
- I think at least once today, when frustration could have chosen frustration, when the feeling started to come, I just shut them down and refocused on the reality that since I’m getting worthy effort, God is okay with whatever happens, and if there’s something I need to learn and change, then I’m examining those things, and God will help me go where I need to go and do what I need to do.
Improvement:
- I probably should have left already instead of hanging around to have dinner, and that means I’m going to have a really late night, which is not… the best. But it is good to stay and spend time together.
Thought of the Day:
“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7
It’s just after 11:10, and I’m parked in a Parking Area stop on the side of I25 about 30 minutes from Casper.
Almost there. 🙂
G’night, my lovelies. 🥰
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 