MandarisI woke up at 3:30 and made the mistake of looking at my phone.
You’re going to be ok.
Going to have to give up the ghost on these. You had a good run, buddy.
Manny Monday Nov 4th, 2024
50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #26
26. Are you retired or working? What are your plans for retirement?
I am currently working and having this constant dread that I'll probably have to do this until the day that I pass away.
Life has a lot of twist and turns. A lot of restarts and some plans that had not materialized.
So, I’ve moved all my available resources into making sure that my children have everything they need in order to succeed.
I’ve been taking a small break from OmniFocus to figure out who I am when I’m not ignoring my task list.
Currently, I’m trying out a couple things and I think add this to my list of experiments.
TIP: Using a Task Scratchpad
Have transient errands and tasks you don't want to clutter your task manager? A scratchpad draft combined with Drafts’ Task Widget can help. Includes example actions for moving tasks you captured in the scratchpad on to Reminders or Things, too.
Details: https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/tip-using-a-task-scratchpad/15541
TIP: Using a Task Scratchpad
Task managers are great, but I sometimes find myself with short-term, transient tasks that I need somewhere to jot down and keep up with, but that I don’t feel need all the additional metadata around formal tasks, and I don’t feel fit into the curated hierarchy of projects in my task management system. These are often little things to remember to pick up, or to tell one of my kids when I see them, etc. For tasks like this, I keep a task scratchpad draft in Drafts and use it in combination with ...
Finished reading: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan 📚
I really had trouble putting this book down. I really enjoyed having a female protagonist in a fantasy novel who has some drive and initiative.
At the end, I’m conflicted between seeing where the story goes and having it end in fear that it won’t be able to continue to satisfy.
For this month, I am writing and sending the posts without much editing.
Which is like everyday but more frequently.
50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #25
25. Is there a special food from your region or heritage that you a particular appreciation for?
I'm in California and there are a lot of different foods in our area that I get to sample. There are two foods that I find to be special and that I make for myself time to time.
The first is hot dogs and beans. I like to class it up a little bit by using lil smoky sausages that I pan fry before adding the Bush’s baked beans. Now, these are both processed foods and probably have the total amount of sugar for a whole week contained in one serving. I shouldn’t admit it but no one is going to read this and respond, but I eat the contents of both the package of sausages and can of beans in one seating.
The family finds out soon enough.
My second food is a pan fried baloney sandwich. There is definitely an overlap when it comes to the meat
that I’m eating in this situation and I’m ok with that. I usually get the baloney from my local deli and then place a piece of cheese on top of the baloney.
