Wednesday, December 11, 2024


Highlights: My coffee: I enjoy drinking my roast, and today's was delicious. I did a darker roast that I've got set up for tomorrow. The toilet delivery fiasco ended this morning, and Amazon issued a refund at my request. However, the support clerk took credit for it with characteristic improper English. If it were not so comical, I would be more pissed off, and there lies an insight: all pass and become a funny story or a life lesson and experience. I realized the AirPod Pros I bought were the same as I already had, so those go back tomorrow. I used the morning to tackle some calls and correspondence. I will hear back from Stanford tomorrow regarding my Mom's prescription and grant options. Once it warmed up in the afternoon, I tackled the (hopefully) last big leaf raking and removal. Two bins await Friday pickup. The old toilet is also ready for pickup. It is smashed into pieces within the bin with subtle hammer strikes and safety goggles. Good call, Mark. I dove deep into QuickBooks to set up routine automated emails of financials to the board and accounting as a step towards increased visibility. I still want nothing to do with managing or reporting on accounting until we are past the need to answer to investors as a legacy behavior. Still, I will stay engaged as a technology advisor and contributor.

Insights: As mentioned above, my recognition of the passing of anger or other negative emotions is most useful at the time of an incident, not a day later. But for me, that's still a step in the right direction.