09 November 2004 Tuesday
It's been a good day
Just a word about my day..
It’s been a good day.
There was traffic this morning.
But none this afternoon.
It was chilly all through the day, but the sun shone clearly and the sky was beautiful.
I missed my computer much of the day (yes yes, I’m a dork… how else to work on related projects, though?), but my notebook was with me so ideas still flowed and were written and I was happy (yes yes, I’m a dork—but a happy one!)
When I was called down to dinner, I got up quickly after sitting still , intently focused so long, and I subsequently pulled something in my leg as I ran down the hall.
But I made it to the table and dinner smelled delicious.
I realized that my fingers were numb at one point, while sitting at the dinner table (because my house is that cold!), but the garlic shrimp my dad cooked was thoroughly yummy.
My mother seems happy and my brother’s hair is starting to grow back to decency.
I spent time with good strangers, came home to my family, spoke with some of the best people I know and love, sang loudly to excellent music in my car, ate satisfying food, learned something new or two, and will sleep cozily in my bed with five blankets.
And my fish are well.
It’s been a good day.
*edit: I also just upgraded to Firefox 1.0 final and Thunderbird 0.9. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that :)
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Comments on It's been a good day
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium’s
Liable to walk upon the scene
...the rest of it…
meanwhile, i had another good day… a bit different from yesterday, with its unique bits of gray and smile-enducing splashes of color and niceness..
the thing your song gets wrong is that the inbetweens actually define the bouts of beauty and the overall wealth of the day and the span is soaked just as much in the dirt as well as the magic.
as long as you don’t sit on the bad but move on with the good, then it’s ultimately well and…good. :)
I rather enjoy the spot of balance between (though usually prefer to be on the tipping towards good than tipping towards bad if I get my druthers). Think of it as that 1/2 point that makes it impossible to be perfectly in the middle. (Oy, another Go reference… they just creep out all over the place.)
Be careful, it’s addictive :). Oh, and if possible, try to find a club in your area. KGS is a great place to play online, but there is something very nice and special about sitting down and putting the stones down physically, hearing the click, watching everything jostle towards the end of the game, etc.
And on top of that, it’s one of the games where humans have the advantage over computers. Human pattern recognition and intuition for the game far surpasses the best algorithms currently available. We have to keep our edge :).
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