Purging

Blog Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 21:07 on 2 January 2017

Oh, thank goodness, less stuff.

Been purging.

Took a box and started going through it, finally discarding things I don't need, don't want, can't use, or can't stand. I also discarded things that I'm not using any more and that don't have a reasonable life span left. That's been a hard point for me, discarding items that have some lifespan. I want to donate or recycle or reuse them, instead of just discarding them. I'm not great at this yet, but I'm better than I was before. I'm not dragging all of this crap around and stuff it into a new place. And "stuffing" would be the right word for it.

Anyway, lots of little things gone. Feels good.

Smaller Holes Next Time

Blog Posted by kitt at 14:44 on 2 January 2017

Okay, seriously, who thinks large holes in a cinnamon jar is a good idea?

Holes like these:

... mean that the spice dumps out fast into the oatmeal bowl or cookie batter or whatever. I mean, if your goal is to sell more spice, I guess the larger hole is the correct design choice, but really, no.

So, I switched spice tops:

Now, the spice flows more slowly, and at a better rate.

Starting off just right

Blog Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 22:18 on 1 January 2017

Yeah, so, apparently 2017 is starting off just right.

Mom walked over five million steps last year, which equates to about 13700 steps a day, give or take a few. So inspired, I managed to walk 18k steps today, but not without the delight of a tea spill onto a stack of my index cards. I had to think, if that's the worst part of the day, I'm doing the day okay. It was also the first day I've managed to hit my goal of 600 active calories in a day since starting measuring at Christmas. How one can walk 18000 steps and not burn 600 calories, I don't know. That's 180 minutes of walking at 4 calories a minute, I should have burned 720 calories from walking. Instead, I needed to do a 20 minute workout just before bed to manage those 600. Clearly an unsustainable goal, given I didn't have work today and could do things like walk three times and workout.

Yeah, so, tea aside, starting this year off right.

Cacti

Daily Photo kitt decided around 20:30 on 1 January 2017 to publish this:

The Wise Man's Fear

Book Notes Instead of being asleep at 22:38 on 30 December 2016, kitt created this:

"It is the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

Okay, book two of the Kingkiller Chronicle, Rothfuss continues along right where The Name of The Wind left off. Like, I finished one book and picked up the next and boom, I was back in the same world.

And wow, was I happy to be back. All the characters I expected were back, a few were added, and dammit, I now have to wait for book three to come out sometime in the next... never.

Of the book, well, the last 80 pages or so are the denouement, which was somewhat amusing to me, to have so much of the story as a wrap-it-up-already part of the tale. I kept thinking, what, why. There were a couple of twists that I did not see coming, which is great. For the most part, I enjoyed the book highly, wish I had taken more notes, and will recommend the (yes, still unfinished) series.

Wait, I do have something to complain about. When Kvothe tells the Chronicler in the first book his story will take three days to tell, he was living on a planet with 58 hour days. How do I know this? Because the audiobook is 43 hours long. It tells of Kvothe's second day of telling, glossing over some of the auxiliary events and interactions of the day. If the telling took 43 hours, that wasn't a single-day telling. Rothfuss wrote a Jordan-worthy saga, and let us all have it for cheap.

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