I was awake last night, thinking “I’m not sleeping well, this is jumbled. I don’t think anyone ever taught me how to sleep, because I’m not doing it right.”

I worked late last night, which was quite unusual. I came home and then basically went straight to bed.

Also, my HRV is off. Nobody on earth can explain HRV. I mean, I can explain it, but it has no meaning.

So anyway, I’m off to work on another typical day. Hope you have a wonderful day as well!

I don’t think I’m going to make it, I haven’t been reading like last year, because I’ve been studying. And when I do finish a book, I don’t put the book on Goodreads.

Oh, nevermind , I’ve already made it! LOL! I went to check to see how poorly I was doing and (Gomer Pyle) Surprise! Surprise!

I had no idea. To me that’s funny.

Have a great day!

Little dog gets lost on an Australian island, survives more than a year, makes it home safely.

This is a warm, fuzzy and entertaining story you can read here. Worth the read!

Here it’s raining hard. The water helps the yard. Rain will stop today, clearing up tomorrow. Then you’ll hear me say how I hate to mow.

The previous paragraph is my attempt at a poem. Really bad…

Have a great day!

it was quite a quiet weekend. I stidied and did the budderfield 800 meter sea swim

They gave us old, damaged awards from 2023. I guess they thought no one would notice.. It looks like they’ve been in the trunk of somebody’s car for two years.

Also, I studied.

90%, fairly significant milestone, I think. Bit I know that last 10% is really big!

Happy Monday, happy month of June, welcome to the 2025 Hurricane Season.

Have a great day and week!!!

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Work wants my divorce papers for my upcoming retirement. So I dug them out to take to work today. I’m taking the whole folders, (giant envelopes) I don’t want to open them.

Last night I didn’t sleep well. The monkey mind was very active, talking s*** in my head.

This morning I listened to the same 5 minute guided meditation three or four times because I couldn’t hear it because of the monkey mind talking in my head. Distracting

Sometimes I can control it, other times it seems I can’t. Is there any benefits of the monkey mind? Do you even know what it is? Is this voice, MY voice, chattering in my head. “You’re going to run out of gas” ” Nobody likes you.” “Don’t forget to pick up the gallon of milk on the way home” “you’re going to be fired today.”

it seems like the mind just wants to generate thoughts. That’s all it does, generate thoughts. It doesn’t care if it generates helpful thoughts or harmful thoughts, it just wants to generate thoughts. Endlessly. My job is to be aware that my thoughts are not me, and gradually learn to control my thoughts instead of letting my thoughts control me. That way we contain the monkey mind.

Photos from this mornings walk.

From work yesterday, in the office and out.

Have a great day!

It was a good vacation. It seems like I haven’t been to work in a long time.

It’s Memorial Day in the USA, first day of summer. School’s out.

Below are some more pics from my trip. It’s a nice park called The Arboretum, in Lindsey Park. There was a meditation garden with the largest wind chimes I’ve ever seen.

Yesterday I did some yard work, pruning trees. Does anyone want some free coconuts? Opportunities like this don’t come every day! Come pick them up!

Enjoy your day off, if you have one! I’ll be playing catch up at work!

Have a great day!

I didn’t climb, but I was impressed. (The top two pics are the same, but one’s a zoom-in, the bottom shows the scale)

My hostess takes her son and his friends to a climbing gym weekly. The kids are supervised by a coach who teaches them and makes sure they have a good time. There was a group of about 6 boys and girls climbing, doing jumping jacks and it looked like timed hanging by your hands on a horizontal bar They were all blatantly having fun and getting along well.

Then I went for an infrared sauna and another float in the float tank. The float tank was quite a lot more….. interesting(?) this time around.. It supposedly takes two or three times in to get used to it. I could have stayed in longer. The infrared sauna was like laying on the beach. Very nice.

Below is the sauna room and Travlin’ Tim in the pod room.

Tomorrow I head home. I’ll be at the airport at OH Dark Thirty, so I’m not sure I’ll be posting tomorrow. I’ll be focused on survival, like getting coffee.

Glad I’ll have the weekend before I have to go back to work.