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Wild Cramrant

Eve is doing well. Not dead yet!

French 75

Morton Arboretum

I got lost trying to get out.

MAY 5TH TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR

I keep thinking Spring is here but then the winds from the North Pole blow across these lands and say otherwise. Maybe I do not know what Spring is suppose to be but it feels like it. The berries at the market are cheap as can be and nectarines from California grace my counter.
Let us pray for no more freezing weather.

On this week

This week has been productive as hell. Most of it being programming. Doing more work on excel at work. Getting into using VBA to manipulate data connections, checking metadata on files, saving user responses and UserForms that pop up with all the work I've been doing.
VBA is so nice. Is there anything it can not do?
Outside work I have been making music. Some riddim track. It has been a very fun experience. On top of that I have begun the migration of my life onto Obsidian, a note taking app. It has involved a lot of programming too. I am not the best at programming, never stuck with it to get super deep with it, but I am doing well with what I do know. The more I stick with it the longer I can sit and do it.
I am hoping that I can get all my notes, lists, birthdays, habit tracking etc all on one app. And out of the hands of Apple or Google. This is the third time I am moving this stuff, from Google, to Apple, and now Obsidian. With Obsidian seeming like the best thing available for this type of information.
I recommend checking it out.

On Habits

This year is my year. I am a Ram in the Chinese calendar and an Aries in astrology. With power that the arrangement of celestial bodies has giving me, I have resolved to manifest myself into the horny ol bastard I know I can be.
I enjoy resolutions. I do things like Dry January or Sober October. This passion for self improvement has been with me since a child, dreaming of adventure. Looking back I can attend to the idea it comes from bullying. I remember sadness in showers endeavouring to be a better person so that people would like me.
Such a blessing this has been. As an adult, these endeavors have led to peace and confidence.
I no longer hate who I am. This is the most favorable of blessings that could be bestowed upon anyone.
Formerly, the failure of some aspect in myself or actions would be the cause to much devistation but with time comes wisdom. I have learned that the failure of one thing does not mean you throw the baby out with the bath water.
The last few weeks I have been upset about my addiction to and failure to contain, nicotine. But despite that, the rest of my life has not fallen apart. I am thankful for this.
It has been a lesson long relearned, and finally applied.

On Death of a Salesman

This was my first play that was not Shakespeare. It was a very good book. I hated the characters the entire time and it reminded me of my brother and another estranged friend of mine.
I do not want to spoil the book. It is about dreamers. I will not deny that I was such at one point in my life and while I like to think I know better now, I still might find myself back in the musings of such a wont.
I would like to give copies of this book to them, but they know better than to read books. Or learn lessons.
Bye Bye




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