I feel it in my fingers…

Our washing machine is broken and waiting on parts for a repair, so I found myself in a laundromat today for the first time in 20 years. For some reason, this laundromat chose to play — quite loudly — a UK streaming station called Smooth Relax. I noticed it because of the woman’s voice with a British accent reminding me that weekends are for relaxing, followed by ads for UK stuff like lottery tickets that made no sense to play in the US. It was a weird mix of sappy songs, many of which I’d never heard.

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Yard Stick

We used this yard stick (actually it’s 2 yards) to measure my daughter’s height from 1 week to 18 years old. I like to photograph important objects in case they are lost. This was a bit of a challenge, given the dimensions. I took 8 photos and then combined them in Gimp, using layer masks and gradients to blend them together, and some brightness/contrast adjustment for consistency.

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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness

I recently finished Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson, a Scottish-born CBT practitioner and student of both Stoicism and Buddhism. I came to this book having read enough about CBT to be familiar with its main concepts, and many, many books on Buddhism. On Stoicism, I’d only read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. While I’m sure that book is excellent source material, it is a poor introduction to Stoicism.

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