Mar. 12th, 2012 10:26 pm
Really, 2 weeks?
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mizarchivistApparently I've not been that chatty lately.
I have been doing the Get Happier activity I mentioned in my last post. I don't manage to hit all 5 aspects every single day, but I'm trying not to get too hung up on it. It can be rather a challenge, especially on weekends when I don't have my set routine and my built-in quiet-ish time on the commute. I've determined I'll never really meditate in the Ohhhhhm sense. So I choose to simply do as little as possible, not interact with the outside world, just sit/stand/walk with my thoughts. No reading, no ipod. If things go well, I'll try to keep going. I hope I'm getting happier. I certainly feel like I'm less critical of myself much of the time. So, I'll take that.
I realized a while ago I've not done any art since around Christmas, and that's a little too long. I really don't have a lot of time in the evenings, and I have no Project to drive me to it. I need to get back to it soon. It helps make me feel more like me.
I did start a new project yesterday, though. I've been complaining for a long time about a lack of a useful index for Cook's Illustrated. I've looked and what I found were options to purchase paper copies that only go up to a certain year. Use-less. So, I started a google-doc spreadsheet. I'd like to transfer the data into a database of some sort that allows me to search by tag, so if I want something that's "pasta" or "tex-mex" or "vegetarian," I can do that. It has to be a simple-ish system: no coding required. I also don't want to dump a huge amount of money into it since it's of limited use: I'm not planning on sharing something that may well be proprietary. I just need a tool that will let me use these cookbooks better, you know? So. With all that said: if any of you folk have a notion of what I might be able to use, do let me know.
In the meantime, not a whole lot is different for me. I am limited in my options for social, but I am trying to go do stuff. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asciikitty says: "It's tomplitated."
I have been doing the Get Happier activity I mentioned in my last post. I don't manage to hit all 5 aspects every single day, but I'm trying not to get too hung up on it. It can be rather a challenge, especially on weekends when I don't have my set routine and my built-in quiet-ish time on the commute. I've determined I'll never really meditate in the Ohhhhhm sense. So I choose to simply do as little as possible, not interact with the outside world, just sit/stand/walk with my thoughts. No reading, no ipod. If things go well, I'll try to keep going. I hope I'm getting happier. I certainly feel like I'm less critical of myself much of the time. So, I'll take that.
I realized a while ago I've not done any art since around Christmas, and that's a little too long. I really don't have a lot of time in the evenings, and I have no Project to drive me to it. I need to get back to it soon. It helps make me feel more like me.
I did start a new project yesterday, though. I've been complaining for a long time about a lack of a useful index for Cook's Illustrated. I've looked and what I found were options to purchase paper copies that only go up to a certain year. Use-less. So, I started a google-doc spreadsheet. I'd like to transfer the data into a database of some sort that allows me to search by tag, so if I want something that's "pasta" or "tex-mex" or "vegetarian," I can do that. It has to be a simple-ish system: no coding required. I also don't want to dump a huge amount of money into it since it's of limited use: I'm not planning on sharing something that may well be proprietary. I just need a tool that will let me use these cookbooks better, you know? So. With all that said: if any of you folk have a notion of what I might be able to use, do let me know.
In the meantime, not a whole lot is different for me. I am limited in my options for social, but I am trying to go do stuff. As
asciikitty says: "It's tomplitated." 
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Hi there!
Thanks for the ping last night. It is always appreciated when people double check about things.
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