Yesterday my brain was firing on all cylinders. My thoughts were jumping through associations that I had to stop several times and ask “how the hell did I get here?” I’ve lost the ability to think slowly, to connect thoughts together in any meaningful way that would let me organize them. Then I went out …
Uncle Josh Remembers What He Forgot to Say
Yesterday’s entry was a bit slapdash and done without notes. To be honest, that’s how I’ve been writing here anyway. My notes are growing in an Obsidian vault and simmering in the background, but that means certain things don’t get written when they should. One of the things I did during my time in the …
Uncle Josh on Going to the Dentist pt2
Yesterday’s adventure was only round one. I went back this afternoon for work on three front teeth, including getting the chipped front tooth fixed. It wasn’t a problem the dentist was worried about, but it looks better and is beginning to feel better. I’m still a little numb from the procedure and my front teeth …
Uncle Josh on Breaking the Two Party System
Well, there are rumors, or at least promoted Tweets, claiming that a bunch of republicans are planning to split to form their own party. I’m not sure (because I a) don’t trust the reporting and b) suspect a paywall) if its the Fascists breaking away to prop up their golden-would-be-god-emperor, or if it’s the remaining …
Uncle Josh Struggles With a Tweet
I recently published this tweet Graham’s Tweet compared the 10 Republicans who put Country over Party and voted to impeach Leader Dearest note to Judas betraying Jesus. This implies, indirectly, that Leader Dearest shares the same elevated status as Christ Jesus. And so I tweeted. And then I began to regret it. Not for any …
Uncle Josh Preemptively Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2020
I am almost certain to finish NaNoWriMo this year by hitting 50,000 words in a single text file. It’s not a huge accomplishment, though. I managed to force myself to write every day in November so far with only one day off, which has made catching up difficult but doable. The biggest challenge was not …
Uncle Josh Struggles with Marcus Aurelius
I have been practicing Stoicism, part of which is the practice of hypomnêmata, which is copying phrases into a journal and contemplating the meaning of things in writing. It is a form of meditation. One of the readings is from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Book 4 Section 3, which includes this list that rational beings exist …