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Three Good Things Day 800

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It’s really crazy I made it this far. More like 1000+ if you include my first try at this for a few hundred days.

But 2 years and 2 months plus. It’s a big number.

I enjoy doing it every night and it flows easily.

Unlike the blog where I often just try to put something in.

Here are today’s Three Good Things:

1. Talking to a CT state rep about entering politics
2. New Haven
3. Yale University Art Gallery, incredibly impressive collection. I especially like the American wing.
4. A working keyboard, the external one of my home computer sucks.
5. Getting to 800 on this, kind of crazy
6. Daily practices
7. Making tacos, even hard taco shells for Lanna Lee Maheux
8. Lenny even when he insists I take my keyboard away from the computer, I had to close the door to write this without “help.” He will just lay right on it. Might be why it’s not in good shape, or the fact I often take it away from the desk.
9. Grammarly maybe, I am not sure. Definitely don’t want to upgrade. It highlights a lot of fiddly things though.
10. Facebook Messenger
11. Music
12. The pause button on this keyboard. I love that is has a pause, fast forward, rewind and volume buttons.
13. Typing without thinking
14. Pretty pictures
15. Shorts
16. Air conditioning
17. Home.

Thanks for reading.

edmund

Cleaning Madness

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We haven’t had a guest in a while, I think it’s been months.

It’s good to have them, one because we like being hosts and seeing friends.

Another big one is it forces us to clean.

Unfortunately, when no one visits things tend to accumulate in the guest bedroom. And we don’t change the shower curtain, or clean the tub or big stuff like that.

So still a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow and figuring out where things go.

But at least we got some laundry done, doing some dishes, vacuumed the living room floor, and cleaned the sink, toilet and tub in the bathroom.

It’s definitely a start.

And since we both procrastinate, it takes until the guest is almost here (arriving tomorrow night) until we actually get stuff done.

But we do have a spare bedroom so please come visit. And if we get more visitors things will be kept nicer!

From the NFL to MIT

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I was just watching PTI tonight and heard the story of John Urschel, former center of the Baltimore Raven who retired today to study for a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT.

This makes me very happy.

As does this wonderful piece about the work John Urschel does in the MIT Technolgoy Review.

Although the reason he is leaving the NFL at 26 is very sad.

He’s an incredibly smart man who loves “reading math, doing research, and playing chess”. None of which are expensive. But he’s worried about CTE, a chronic brain disease that affected 110 of 111 brains studied from NFL players in a recent New York Times article.

He loves his brain and his family more than football.

And it makes you wonder about the future of American football.

It can seriously impact the brain to have so many collisions.

I hope for great things for John Urschel.

And I hope we learn more about concussions and how to prevent them. Also the many small injuries that football players and I am sure players in other sports get.

Here is a nice video about him from NFL Films, “The NFL’s Smartest Man.”

And here is a great Real Sports piece about him. I really like this guy. And I am happy he is leaving the head injury dangers of the NFL and going to get his Ph.D. and be a wonderful professor and researcher somewhere.

“I Am Not Your Negro” ****

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Both me and my wife Lanna were blown away by the preview. Thought of paying $5 to rent it but it came free on Amazon Prime.

It started with an idea from James Baldwin for a movie about 3 civil rights leaders who all died in the 1960s in their 30s: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. I had no idea they were all so young. All younger than I am now.

The documentary talks a lot about James Baldwin’s very realistic and still literary voice.

I have read some of his essays and they are still strikingly modern even 50 years later.

African American History is American History. As is Native American history, both are shameful. There is no reason for white to be considered better except to gain power. It’s absurd and shameful. And absurd that white supremacy with Donald Trump is still winning elections. Race baiting has been part of America since the colonies. 400 years of African Americans all the way back to 1619 in Jamestown.

So much wealth made on people as property, so many lives lost.

Absolutely necessary viewing. Although not easy to watch.

I need to read more of James Baldwin. ****

WordPress App Fail

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My WordPress app isn’t working and the kitty (Lenny) on my leg is wicked comfy so just going to do my blogpost on Facebook tonight.

I really generally like the WordPress app and do most of my blogging on it for better or worse.

But tonight, I just can’t load it.

I was thinking of talking about that I haven’t flown for over ten years, but I’m just tired tonight. I guess I can always edit this tomorrow.
Internet and app failures are exhausting.

As is having a lemon of a computer.

So it goes.