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In spite of a little meditation in the morning and a walk around noon, my brain felt like mush all afternoon. Very scattered and difficult to concentrate. I finally did dive in to a Makefile and made some progress, though not as much as I would have liked, and fixed a bug in the one of the last two systems that actually still run my demo.

Spent most of the evening hiding out in the office until things thinned out somewhere between 10:30 and 11.

Quote from a comment made elsejournal: "I often wonder what it would be like to be, if not 'normal', at least enough like other people to be able to experience a few things in close enough to the same way as to find them comprehensible." It's an exageration, of course; many things about other people are comprehensible to me. With others, though, I'm never entirely sure.

Links: My sister-of-choice pocketnaomi pointed me at this post by osewalrus, in part to introduce me to the phrase "Elija moment". cflute pointed me at books about self-esteem by Nathaniel Branden and Jean Illsley Clarke. I'm currently starting on Ten Days to Self Esteem by David D Burns.

Thankful Thursday

Today I'm thankful for...

• Colleen, of course. Always and for everything.
• Family of choice.
• Friends who offer to help, and me being sensible enough to accept it.
• Gainful -- and even socially useful -- employment.
• Eggs and sauteed leftovers for breakfast.

Signal boost: A friend in need

My sister-of-choice, Naomi, needs help.

What would help most, of course, would be jobs for her and/or her partner Callie (cflute). But they also need to feed the kids and pay the rent while they work on finding jobs.

I figure that instead of sending money to a couple of charities working to cure diseases we don't have yet, we can send it to our friends this year.

There's an email address in her post for PayPal, or you can email her for her snail-mail address. Even a little bit would be helpful.

Thanks in advance,
==steve