Gratitude journaling together

Life
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  1. I have moved up to 20 kg in a rowing exercise.
  2. A pleasant day in the office yesterday with two coworkers.
  3. Jeremy made the best lasagne last night.
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  1. Whenever I’m dragging myself out of a depression/anxiety hole I’ve started setting three tasks a day which are steps forward in some way. My wife’s now joined in and doing it as well, and it’s surprising how fast we’re getting a handle on things.
  2. Plum crumble! My parents had an excess from their plum trees.
  3. Some long-anticipated books are in the post to me!
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power-up of this technique: scoring how the day went in terms of the tree tasks at the end of day
power-up of the power-up: beemind the score :smiley:

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  1. Left-over lasagne for lunch. Not quite as nice but still great.
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  1. The flat is tidier and I’m so much happier for it.
  2. Lots of reading today.
  3. Even though my course material isn’t available yet, there are a bunch of lectures available from last year that could be interesting, including a couple by Peter Piot!
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  1. Watching the scrub turkey try to get into my yard past the fence that’s only 3 times her height. She runs back and forth, trying to find a way through, before finally remembering that if she runs a little further down, there’s a gate that’s only 2.9 times her height and she can fly-jump over that.
  2. Watching the turkey fly up to a tree branch to roost. Pondering how she manages to exist with clearly no brains at all.
  3. The scent of flowers in the garden.
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  1. I have to be at work early today for some server maintenance and I’ve left the house in plenty of time with my morning routine accomplished.
  2. Hard-boiled eggs make a great transportable lunch.
  3. Mulberry season is here. There’s a tree near my place with many berries.
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  1. Today I will be learning to make picau ar y maen myself! Which means that I will be able to eat some, and also able to just decide I want them whenever.
  2. It’s raining heavily and at just an angle where it taps lightly against my window, making it feel very cosy.
  3. Wife is working on sewing a new top for me with a really nice fabric (the design has birds sitting on wires).
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  1. It rained yesterday! First time in ages.
  2. Mars has been bright in the sky while I’ve been out walking.
  3. I’ve just finished rewatching seasons 1 to 4 of Lucifer. I’m glad I did because I’d forgotten enough of it to allow surprises and it was all great fun. I start season 5 today!!
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  1. My dentist is a nice guy who will not bat an eyelid at me needing to squeeze a teddy while he works on my teeth.
  2. One of my friends is adorably enthusiastic about my hair experiments.
  3. There is a Tupperware of picau ar y maen which I can eat whenever I want. Which I made!
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  1. Jeremy woke earlier than usual this morning so we had a cup of tea together before starting the day.
  2. Raindrop.io, an altermative to Pocket. I like its interface much better (e.g., deleting items is easier).
  3. I watched Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (the first movie) for the first time. I had thought I’d find it silly and only barely watchable to catch up on the history before I see the new movie but I loved it! It was charming.
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  1. My dentist also did the cleaning of my teeth needed, so I don’t have to go back and see the hygienist. I prefer him doing it anyway as he’s way more respectful of my anxiety, so hurrah!
  2. My reading goals are all collectively working out pretty well. It’s probably temporary, but hey, it’s something.
  3. We ordered some new boxes to organise stuff and they have arrived, so we can get on with that!
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  1. At work some server maintenance that our team did on the weekend went well, with no significant issues found since then.
  2. One of the bearded dragon lizards that lives in my garden has turned up for the first time since winter ended.
  3. A friend that we haven’t seen for a while visited last night.
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  1. Walking through our surprisingly tidy (for us) house is still an unexpected pleasantness.
  2. It’s kind of satisfying to grumble about rugby, even if Owen Farrell’s mere slap on the wrist is annoying.
  3. I feel like reading and I really did miss this itch to read.
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  1. Lunch yesterday at my favourite cafe in town with a coworker.
  2. The neighbours have a new dog, Louis, who is so cute and friendly.
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  1. I probably do not have anything obscure wrong with me, yay negative test results!
  2. Khan Academy.
  3. Planning for some time off.
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  1. This dog herding geese on a bus and walking trip through London
  2. Interesting jobs in my weekly desk duty at work yesterday.
  3. Not too many job in my desk duty. :slight_smile:
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  1. Planning an actual outing. (To somewhere outdoors, with controlled entry.)
  2. Finished a level of Cook Serve Delicious 3 that I was struggling with!
  3. The problem with our light fittings should be easily fixed.
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  1. Collective nouns. I love them. I’m fascinated by the (admittedly sometimes sexist) thought patterns that some of them hint at (ambush of widows, argument of architects).
  2. I worked a long day yesterday but feel pleased at my progress.
  3. I slept relatively well last night.
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That is… kinda delightful but also kinda… unparsimonious? gratuitous? from a language-design perspective. Do other languages do that? Is English the anti-Esperanto? (Maybe vocabulary-wise it is? Grammar-wise, German is more the anti-Esperanto than English.)

Also I’m a little skeptical that there are exactly 3 collective nouns for “group”:

  • “group of guinea pigs”
  • “group of islands” (along with “archipelago of islands” and “chain of islands”)
  • “group of people” (along with “clique of people”, “community of people”, “crowd of people”, and “congregation of people”)

Gratitude Tax

  1. Linguistics!
  2. The air in Portland is merely “very unhealthy” today instead of “hazardous”
  3. I injured myself running and the amount of time I need to recover looks like it will perfectly coincide with the duration of the wildfires contraindicating exercise
  4. The Fifth Season is a total page-turner and beeminding reading it seems superfluous – bmndr.co/d/fifthseason – and yet sometimes stuff will come up and I won’t pick up the book for a day and that makes it slightly less likely I’ll pick it up the next day and so on and there’s some risk of abandoning a book indefinitely except that Beeminder ensures that never happens Beeminder is amazing the end. Also beeminding reading with odometer goals is essentially frictionless.