As I wandered around the camp property this morning, it struck me again how relaxing the environment is.

And then the follow up thoughts.

When did I shift to the person I am today? When did I stop hiking as much or camping or enjoying the outdoors? When did I compromise who that person was and ended up who I am today?

I don’t have an answer right now as I’m still working on the answer myself.

Hopefully you haven’t compromised yet or if you have started, maybe this will be a trigger to have you realize it and consider if you want to consider.

-SFA

I’m on vacation this week.

Well. The vacation they way it happens these days when it is not a full disconnect from work and other aspects of life.

That’s good and bad. Some of the things I was was responding to are from passion projects. They also are linked with work.

Rambling some more, it makes me ponder what it would be like to retire when hopefully more things are passion projects.

-SFA

Ulysses

I just downloaded and subscribed to Ulysses. I’m hoping being able to use my computer and then publish will be faster and easier than opening up wordpress and doing the work. There are other programs that were recommended but I’ll try this one first. Now to see if I can publish just this part.

I kinda miss Word ’97 or whatever it was I did use to publish directly to wordpress.

I wonder how people keep up the motivation to continue writing frequently.

I get it if somebody has monetizing it and is making most of their income off of it. It’s your job. You sit down you work on something you write it maybe you even proofread it. That’s how you make your money.

I have ideas for things that I want to write about, maybe sometimes too many ideas. A certain paralysis in wanting to write and wanting to keep writing, but feeling a little burnout of the process. I think my goal needs to be reset. Instead of trying to go more frequent, Just go for the quality and the enjoyment.

SFA

I never did get around to doing my daily posts at SXSW 2024.

Overall it was a fun time.

Still big problems with the staff. I was told there was no proof I bought the tshirt and poster. They eventually said they could find the tshirt but no poster. They would not refund the money I paid for the poster. I’m upset with this theft and they never responded.

The fast pass was fraught with problems every single day which was another disappointment. I read many posts from others on their problems. Of course it was the IT people attending who said they just set up scripts/bots to reserve what they wanted with a high success. Something to consider in some future iteration.

I do encourage people to go for the vast amount of information, and fun. I will also remember the hit and run driver that killed someone outside the comedy club late one evening and how thankful I am my uber driver was in the wrong place and I had to cross the street, thereby not being in the path of the other driver.

-SFA

I keep a journal on paper. I also have this online journal.

It’s interesting to have both. There is a visceral feel in the act of putting pen to paper. I have to slow down my writing, take the time to process each word, and see the ink bleed into the paper to stay into some future moment, whether or not someone actually reads the words or not.

Online here it will live essentially forever as long as these electrons persist in the cloud. I can go back and reread, if I ever chose to do so, and others, also if they choose to, can take a glimpse into my in-the-moment thoughts.

This form is easier. I don’t have to hunt down my journal and pen. I just need internet access somewhere on the earth to be able to access this site and my blog.

Time passes so quickly, thinking it was only last week I put thoughts down when in fact, the never left my head. My new test will be keeping the site in a tab in my browser and seeing if I end up writing more.

-SFA

So, I didn’t die overnight.