Highlights: my morning included a chunk of time roasting coffee with what I anticipate will prove to be an improved result. Which would be saying a lot considering how satisfied I have been so far. Tomorrow will be a chance to see. I had arranged for, through a utilities program, to have our home audited for energy efficiency. A guy came today and did a slew of things. I could not believe the amount of energy he had and the speed at which he went through our house. I am stunned and grateful to have been afforded this opportunity. Not only did he install a new "Ecobee" smart thermostat, a significant upgrade from our prior one, but he also replaced LED bulbs throughout the house with surplus. He removed and replaced the door seals around the garage, front and back doors. He triaged and weather-sealed the air ducts and wall openings around pipe fittings beneath the sinks. He even put insulation behind wall outlets and light switches. He spent about two hours total. He also helped triage the furnace, which had not been working when it was fired up last week after the summer. It's working now. It's pretty incredible. One of the ways my time gets sucked up is by getting absorbed in the ongoing act of continuous engineering, everything and anything around the house. Now that we have a new thermostat, I had to spend some time removing the old one and installing the replacement, while also ensuring all the automations accounted for the replacement. Part of my morning routine is to avoid picking up the phone, yet a good deal of the things I do regularly, including the online meditation sit, involve the phone. As well as listening to podcasts and meditations. Today, I set about enabling all of this to take place on my watch, not my phone. I'm still working on it. I'm not sure it's an optimal use of my time or that it will have a high ROI. Still, I'd like to avoid having a device within reach when I'm working on focusing my mind on not thinking about anything, and everything I need to do, as soon as I stop thinking of nothing. In that case, Then I might actually be successful at thinking about nothing. All of this takes significant time away from finishing the outline, which is my newest focus for the book. I'm at a point now where I have enough momentum around the narratives that it's time to start an advance plan to synchronize how events get presented. I almost feel like I need to spend a week offline with my remarkable device and nothing else to achieve that level of continuous concentration.
Insights: Tonight was a pleasant calm evening at home. I continue to consciously relish the space we share and the good fortune and opportunities we have had to create this space and these moments.
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