Productivity Phooey

Blog Instead of being asleep at 23:14 on 15 January 2017, kitt created this:

I've recently written a post for SuperYesMore, the subject of my post and the project being productivity. I've been reading the other posts, and, wow, can Alex get impressive people writing for him and his projects. Impressively impressive.

I wrote up my process, how I stop the daily churn of tasks, while moving towards my long-term goals. The process works for me, I like it, I derive comfort from the process, I find it effective.

Yet, reading the other posts in the series, and wow, am I tempted to change things up. Sorta. I find some of the processes that others have, less effective for me. I've tried them and either dropped them because they weren't effective, or tossed them into a bag of poo and lit them all on fire. There are things that work for others and just do not work for me.

Fasting, Day 2

Blog Posted by kitt at 16:52 on 15 January 2017

I did a 24 hour fast yesterday, having eaten Friday night and not eating on Saturday until the evening. I think I managed about 900 calories around dinner time, eating slowly from about 5:30 until about 8. Around 8, I started again.

Yesterday's fasting was easier than I expected to be, but knowing both what the experience is like and that I can endure the hunger for one f'ing day, made the day not particularly difficult.

What has surprised me about today's fasting, however, is the lack of hunger I am feeling. I was expecting today to be incredibly hungry, but, nope, not really. When I think about the question, "Am I hungry?" the answer was no until about 4pm. This surprised me a bit, until, well, I realized the body adapts to many things, and hunger is one it is evolved to withstand.

Twenty Year Old To-Do List

Blog kitt decided around 22:25 on 14 January 2017 to publish this:

In the Great Grand Purge of 2017 (well, at least the first part of it), I finally let go of some papers I've had since 1998. I am cracking up more than I should be, I suspect.

On one of the pages, I had three sticky notes, things to do in Los Angeles, things to do in San Francisco, and things to do daily.

Things to do daily cracked me up, mostly because, wow, apparently I've been doing pretty much the same for the last two decades. Not quite, but really close:

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Book Notes Instead of being asleep at 18:22 on 12 January 2017, kitt created this:

Okay, this book starts out with a warning from Rothfuss about how you, the reader, shouldn't buy this book. In as much as I had already bought the book, the warning was a bit too late.

Amusingly enough, the last part of the book continues this trend, with an explanation of how the book came to be, and came to be published.

I enjoyed the book, even if I know that Andy hated the book. It's about Auri, and the perceived workings of an off-drummer, but-I'm-sane-from-my-perspective mind. It has nothing to do with Kvothe, which puts it in a weird place.

I wouldn't recommend the book.

The illustrations, however, are delightful, and could make really nice woodblock or letterpress prints.

Same As Everyone

Blog Posted by kitt at 15:05 on 11 January 2017

"But if he’s going to get saved, he’s going to have to do it himself.” She pushed away a betraying tear. Jim took a half step toward her. “He’ll have to do it himself,” she said again, her voice a degree harder to keep him from touching her or saying something soft and consoling. “Same as everyone.”

- Babylon's Ashes, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Naomi

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