More introductory material:
- I'm part of the LGBTQA+ rainbow.
- I'm emphatically pro-choice & feminist.
- I grew up in New England & want to move back after I retire. I've been living in the southeastern USA since 1998, but it has never felt like home.
- I've worked on the web for 24 years, but before that I worked in construction, warehouses, & print shops, & spent 6 years teaching work skills in a sheltered workshop.
Interests hashtag list:
#knitting
#landscape #photography
#sharepoint
#yamaha #honda #motorcycles
#bpd
#blogging
#cats
#cardweaving #tabletweaving
I'm Jorah IRL as well as on many social sites.
I am a collector of hobbies, most of them in hibernation (kayak, geocache, blogging, card weaving, aikido, photography), some active (knitting), some new (drawing).
I manage SharePoint sites at work.
I lean left, politically.
I have a well-managed personality disorder (BPD) & 3 cats (not well-managed).
I ride a motorcycle every chance I get. I spend too much time on Twitter.
Happy to meet you if any of this sounds familiar.
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Very glad today is a rest day, no calisthenics, no treadmill. I have a lot of ow. I'm having to come to terms with the fact that I cannot do the furniture lifting when we move, between hernia repair and arthritis. It's frustrating me, though, that I finally decide to do something about my physical condition only to run headlong into diminishing capacity. I also feel like I'm malingering, playing up a medical excuse to avoid work. That's probably the toxic masculinity talking.
random thought: Unicorns are very clearly herd-animal-type ungulates, but usually depicted as solitary. They are also famously elusive and easy to lose track of despite being stark white. I propose that unicorns are herd animals, and the majority are not pure white; rather, albinism and leucicism occur in unicorns as in everything else, and only these unicorns ever get spotted because a properly camouflaged unicorn is even more impossible to spot and track.
Put up the last two skillet scrubbers on the shop this morning. I don't have the rings to build more even if I wanted to. https://ko-fi.com/andrewragland/shop
I know it's not entirely a coincidence. A number of Western psychologists & other mental health practitioners have embraced concepts rooted in Buddhism over the last 50 years. It was just a bit startling to see such a clear alignment.
Here's the rest of the photo. The bottom half reads
"The teaching of the Four Noble Truths forms the core of all Buddhist paths, schools, and traditions. The essence of the (Truths) is to address and embrace the truth of human suffering."
I was looking through my photos archive & found this image. It reads
"Embrace the instance of suffering.
Let go of the reactive pattern.
See the stopping of the reactivity.
Act skillfully."
I legit thought it was a photo of a page from one of my Dialectical Behavioral Therapy books, then I scrolled down & saw the rest of it (next toot)
Our apartment has an air conditioning unit mounted through an external facing wall in the living room. It makes our place livable in the hot, humid, unbearable parts of the summer.
However the air circulation in our place is not terrific.
I'm wondering whether I can justify installing a small portable unit or a mini-split in the guest room that now serves as my permanent work-from-home office. Has anyone done this? Terrible idea or worthwhile?
Question.
Let's say I do a Google search taking the following measures:
1. I never sign into my Google account
2. I block or refuse cookies (in browser settings), including tracking scripts. This is reinforce with UBlock and privacy badge
3. I keep each search in its own private session (so no cross-tab tracking).
4. Use VPN
Is this enough to prevent Google from profiling me and figuring out I'm the same dude who's Googling from the office? How So?
Was thinking about how silly it would be to say that a cat or a dog was a failure. We could say that a cat failed to catch a bird, or a dog to catch a rabbit, but the cat is still perfectly successful being a cat.
Why are we so much harder on each other, on our kids, our friends?
Why are we so much harder on ourselves?
#BPD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #bi #left #photography #motorcycle #reading #knitting #coffee #atheism #humanism #SecularBuddhism