Fun day
We went to meditation in the Buddhist centre. We did the metta practice. It's about wishing everyone is happy and well, and so you contemplate happy thoughts at the world for an hour. I'm not really very good at thinking that keeps still, but I can think happy thoughts at lots of folk. I was stuck for people when we were supposed to picture someone we hate, because I don't, normally. I get irritated at their creative selections, for some people, or I find their particular coaching a bit wearying, yet I never think about it as disliking people, at least not whenever I'm not already wound up. I ended up contemplating politicians. Wishing them joyful and well sounds a tad counterproductive, but if they were then they wouldn't mess people about so much. Also the other wish is may all beings make progress or come closer to enlightenment or gain more wisdom, and that I can certainly wish politicians wholeheartedly. So there was sitting and thinking cheerful thoughts at people.
Frankly the sitting part may be the most challenging. I'm not really a sitting still type of person. I did experience this time when I couldn't feel my legs anymore and shifted so they came back. I would like further training with the sitting positions bit.
We started with lying down on our backs to perform breathing awareness. I discovered that was Really Not Cool. I searched through my head for reasons but all I could think of was parts of Doctor Who, and plainly those aren't good reasons. I'm not gonna end up in a relaxed and happy state that way though. Even in my nice spot with a wall behind me near the door I'm not really about to close my eyes, and adding some lay down is simply not worky.
But that was the beginning. By the end I was satisfied and thinking happy thoughts at everything.
Then we ate pizza. I got vegetarian not actually cheese but tastes delicious pizza. And, okay, it tasted sort of more like cheese on toast, and it cost $18 but we had half each, even so, pizza! It has been a little bit of a while. And they have the cheese products downstairs, plus I appear to be capable of digesting it, however I didn't get any today to give the digestion thing occasion to prove. It just didn't taste the same as the last time I tried out vegan cheese, there wasn't any cardboard in the recipe. And So I enjoyed fine eatings and I know the spot where I can go eat and which is normally open. Many places I've been eating at either closed or modified their selection so that the good food disappeared. Now I've a new one.
The library was great too. I went searching for books again. And once again I could not find it. I did discover the HOR section isn't a section any longer, which is why I couldn't find it. I ran across the Doctor Who spinner. It's a whole spinner of just Doctor Who books. The adult type, not just the new series variety. I shall investigate soon. However I could not discover the trashy vampire book I wanted next, and I looked on each of the shelves, and asked the librarian, and they looked on all the shelves, and kept giving me books which were trashy elf books instead but roughly correct, and then the librarian said they'd reserve it for me, immediately after which, naturally, we stumbled upon the book. It turned up in the recently returned shelf, and also hiding. Invariably the hiding. Also the library is quite warm and hunting books can make me too hot. Still we won, so is yaay.
Now i'm home.
Sanity day: get!
Frankly the sitting part may be the most challenging. I'm not really a sitting still type of person. I did experience this time when I couldn't feel my legs anymore and shifted so they came back. I would like further training with the sitting positions bit.
We started with lying down on our backs to perform breathing awareness. I discovered that was Really Not Cool. I searched through my head for reasons but all I could think of was parts of Doctor Who, and plainly those aren't good reasons. I'm not gonna end up in a relaxed and happy state that way though. Even in my nice spot with a wall behind me near the door I'm not really about to close my eyes, and adding some lay down is simply not worky.
But that was the beginning. By the end I was satisfied and thinking happy thoughts at everything.
Then we ate pizza. I got vegetarian not actually cheese but tastes delicious pizza. And, okay, it tasted sort of more like cheese on toast, and it cost $18 but we had half each, even so, pizza! It has been a little bit of a while. And they have the cheese products downstairs, plus I appear to be capable of digesting it, however I didn't get any today to give the digestion thing occasion to prove. It just didn't taste the same as the last time I tried out vegan cheese, there wasn't any cardboard in the recipe. And So I enjoyed fine eatings and I know the spot where I can go eat and which is normally open. Many places I've been eating at either closed or modified their selection so that the good food disappeared. Now I've a new one.
The library was great too. I went searching for books again. And once again I could not find it. I did discover the HOR section isn't a section any longer, which is why I couldn't find it. I ran across the Doctor Who spinner. It's a whole spinner of just Doctor Who books. The adult type, not just the new series variety. I shall investigate soon. However I could not discover the trashy vampire book I wanted next, and I looked on each of the shelves, and asked the librarian, and they looked on all the shelves, and kept giving me books which were trashy elf books instead but roughly correct, and then the librarian said they'd reserve it for me, immediately after which, naturally, we stumbled upon the book. It turned up in the recently returned shelf, and also hiding. Invariably the hiding. Also the library is quite warm and hunting books can make me too hot. Still we won, so is yaay.
Now i'm home.
Sanity day: get!
Frustration
I think Kris got this one exactly right. I've had so many infuriating experiences using open source programs that I would like to give up completely. The thing is, sometimes it's the only choice. You're looking for something to do a specific task, and the only people who've thought it would be worthwhile enough to code are Linux nerds or something. Maybe at some point we'll have sophisticated AIs whose job will be to deal with all the grunt work of making good programs. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I for one would welcome our new GUI overlords.
