Forward moment-choo-m
When my mind has strange inclinations, I sometimes anthropomorphize my mental state: “Oh, gee, isn’t it interesting that my brain cannot make the connections I usually can, or it’s making very strange connections. I wonder why it does that.” I don’t worry about the recursion there, because the technique is largely a way to stop […]
Trip triage
My travel schedule in both the near and far term is becoming abbreviated. In the short term, I am canceling two trips to Orlando I had planned for the next two weeks because I’ve had a cold this weekend and know my limits (or at least need to start behaving as if I know them). […]