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If you still believe, as I do, that having the right notebook is a contigency for getting stuff done, then continue to be convinced and in denial of your correcness, as I do.

A quick memory: back around a decade ago (a decade is 10 years) I was in charge of music at a church. That is called being “aworship pastor.” I was not very comfortable with that title, for reasons I can get into another time. I went through a trend of having the musicians play with a supplemental backing of pre-recorded music during church. The intent was to fill out our rather small lineup and provide a “bigger sound.” Feels like Spinal Tap just typing it out. Well, I myself would create these “backing tracks” on my computer at home—playing extra guitar parts, programming in extra drums, adding transition effects, adding the occasional frizzy keyboard arp part. I would usually wake up between 4 and 5 AM to put the finishing touches on the “backing track.” I put the team through a lot to make this work — and from where I now stand, it feels misguided and selfish.

In the battle of who could care less today: let us consider Stipe v Yorke. More to come on that topic tomorrow, when I’ve my wits about me.

Google is making it very obscure and hoop jumpy to find the Drive app for macOS these days. The install link is buried on the only support page I could find.

Spring break travels. Exhausted from driving - but only halfway there. Had perhaps our longest ever stretch of no stops on a trip.

Back browsing the discs at our local library since the DVD player in the van is now working, and also because we now have a PS4 at home. All of a sudden I was flooded with memories of checking out entire series at a time - and discovering that our library actually has quite a few things I’ve been wanting to watch.

I’m discovering more and more that I like to hear the news, in a podcast or the radio, and I like to read stories. I don’t like to cross the streams. My brain and heart need to keep each cordoned off from the other.

I’ve been running away from the humble web browser for a long time. Trying to do everything In App. In a native app or bust. But maybe returning to the browser is worth a try. Have a tab group that contains the best 6 or 7 sites I care about.

Lunch out today, using a 14 month old gift card. There was a crying 14 month old at the restaurant. But the fries were good, although I overlooked that they cost $2.99 for the garlic upgrade - an oversight about which I will be silently lashing myself for the rest of the day. I didn’t need the buttery garlic topping that much.

Started work on a white paper trying to get across my thoughts on the Free Press - and our current gov’t’s dismantling thereof. To what end? Is revamping the White House press corps a fine thing in and of itself? Haven’t gov’t’s always desired to have a hand in how they are portrayed to their own public? Maybe “yes” to all these items - BUT - an emphatic “NO” to how it is going about these ends.

Having the hour between 6 and 7 free to be able to get the kitchen in orderreallymakes the following day a lot more palatable to the unwilling tongue. Less sour to the touch.

And that is the disturbing part. When you know that your brain is wired to think about all the behind the scenes details, and not what’s onstage - which is what people care about.

I’ve spent the past 3 months completely rebuilding my entire website - and now that I’m nearing the end, I may have lost my entire purpose in life. All there is left to do is write.