Sitting on the deck tonight. Lights are off. Crickets are singing. Burning down a cigar. Watching the moon change.

It takes a long time for me to work through a very basic planning session due to my motivation, attention span and bringing myself back from tangential research. It’s part of my process but not something I can easily state will only occupy a certain amount of my Sunday.

I was digging into the names of the week, today (as one does). I learned about the Chaldean planetary hours. There is a long chain of events including cultural appropriation and colonization, but, following the arrow of time, essentially the English weekday names are derived from practices begun in Babylon.

Today I finally have a Keychron keyboard. There was a deal on Woot that I could not pass up. K8 with Brown switches. I regret nothing.

I am disappointed in myself.

I have recently learned I have some blind spots with respect to how I act and how it makes people feel.

The magic is in how I make people feel. And sometimes I’m repellent or, if I’m lucky, only irritating.

I used to pride myself on being a geek with a personality, but that river is neither as deep nor as wide as I had hoped. I’ve reached a point where I need to modify this river’s course, or I will not be able to continue to flow.

This is an acknowledgement that I recognize I have work to do.

If I’m better, I hope my behavior shows it.

Stowaway is a really cool web-based application of publicly available, live fight information. I have been using FlightRadar24 on my phone for years. It’s a great way to answer “What is that plane?” Or “I wonder where they are going?”

Stowaway creates a graphical UI based on what you might be able to see from the ground, which is different than the top-down view of FlightRadar24. FlightRadar24 does also offer simulated views from the perspective of the aircraft.

The skies are very possibly more full of traffic than you might suspect.

The problem isn’t the advertising you see. It’s the tracking you don’t.

You are correct, sir!

ADHD: Later that same day, go to a room to get something. Perform a secondary task in the room. Leave the room without the thing you entered it for. Remember when you return to the place you started from.