Sailing Toward the Bed
(An allusion to Ulysses)
8/14/24 Spent two hours on a letter about the Supreme Court. Great brainstorm! / Got needed pair of shorts / weeded cats tongue/ better wu control! / Kevin will do programming for STH + / Plans: Just make order to wristbands. / think about best anti-trump actionl
8/13/24 Yesterday: ordered 1000 flyers. Decided to change the name of website. too much anger. Spent two days cleaning house. Got new, good tenant! Very unhappy about lack of response to STH. Today: order wristbands.
8/10/24 Plans: upgrade STH. / Looking back: focus not great but I did accomplish a fair amount. I learned new software to put on an audio track (STH). I began setting up a Facebook page (nonintuitive) visit to Thrift, helped woman. some organizing of house, but didn’t make too much progress.
8/9/24 Plans: wristband, draft email. put furniture on list. redo craigslist housing ad. Clean house. Order flyers. Called printivity with questions. NewPrintivityCustomer 1:20 began working on Craigslist ad. Call to probation 350-2320, federal probation. 412-3956079 left message. Too much anger regarding former tenant.
8/8/24 Plans: order new wrist bands. Request to friends and family, email. Prepare room. Put ads in for furniture. Add doubt about militias to STH. Got good editing for home page. Lost a day on gift of being project. 6:30 working on STH home page. Hour call with Jada.
8/7/24 Redid poster on homepage. More enhancements. Plan to add endorsements page. Get posters and mini-flyers made. Bank? Began at 10:50-12:40. Went to bank. wasted hour looking for cheap copies. Got lead for cheap color copies! Email to votecommongood.com about collaboration. posted to craigslist about website. Sent out email about Israel. Frustration with Cash app. Deleted it!
8/5/24 and 8/6 Work on STH site. Research for Gift of Being wristband. Finding editor. Some work on cleaning house for new renter. Started Cordyceps mushroom powder.
8/4/24 began 5:10. did do exercises. Goal to keep focus. I set three alarms daily, noon 3 and 6 pm. Worked till 6:45 slept. worked 10:37 to 10:50. Break, Pullups/pushups. Work on STH begin again at 11:15-11:25. 12:30-1:00 STH 2:25-3:35 STH. 5:00-6:25 Had late night idea for christian website.
8/3/24 begin 2:33. plan to redo home page and finish favicon, and do video page. Lost focus. Did work on most of home page. Talked to Joan 1.5 hours.
8/2/24 Began 8:45. Made notes on yesterday’s new ideas. 9:02 began thinking about goals: fix up STH website with new footer, and DIY volunteering, and about. Stopped at 11:30. Volunteer at thrift shop 40 min. Restart: 12:50. worked until 4:00 break and dinner till 5:45.
8/1/24 Starting at 8:12 today. Plan to do three story intro to STH. Lost focus badly. Skimmed Carnegie Endowment article about the threat to democracy.. Had good video idea “What’s on the table.”
7/31/24 Began at 6:40 work on STH. Took photo for website. Worked on three STH pages. Got new three-story concept for home page late at night. Re-installed Firefox because of corruption. Worked on two posters and a PDF for STH. 4O minutes of exercise. Resisted too much political news.
7/30/24 Begin at 8:58. Touch up groupgenie.org and focus on STH. worked till 11:24 restart 11:38 to 11:48. break for lunch. 12:05 restart work. talked to Harris canvasser Cherelle 15 min. break 11 min. Very slow going with pledge plugin. Watched part of video about potential for major violence.
7/29/24 11:07 plan: work on STH website, the pledge software, and the poster. Make bandaid icon. Took lunch break at 1:35 exercised, listened to political comm video. Start again at 3:05 on STH. Worked till 4:00, Break 5:40 begin work on pledge app. worked till 8:00
7/28/24 Did exercises. Watched videos about political communication. Talked to J in distress for 45 min. Began work 12:22 on STH website. Worked until 3:27. Call from Joyce R for 37 minutes. Attended online Project 2025 training. 4:00-5:03.
7/27/24 This is my first entry. I upgraded this website from about 10am to 11:45 Success! I plan to use this journal to help keep me focused. I had a good lunch from 11:45 to 12:10. Then more fine-tuning of Sailing website until 12:30. Plans for today: email Julia M and Misri P. Also customize Speakout plugin on STH site. 2 Talked to a friend about a programming problem and ran and errand. 3:00 beginning the email to Julia. Revised the Project Dream Agenda document. Drafted and sent email to Julia M and Misri P. Done at 6:15 (taking 10 minute nap.) Sent Samer revised Project Dream Agenda doc. Texted Toneka about union training. Tomorrow: Meeting with Biden campaign. Don’t forget VoteForward.Org. Update PDA doc. Followup to Julia (some random guy). Draft small STH poster. email Joyce, call Mike C. 7:20 began working on Speakout! plugin. Taking a break at 8:50. Began redrafting the Pledge of Political Nonviolence at about 9:50, and sent out an email looking for feedback. Done at 11:45.
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