Day: March 24, 2022

I’m finally using my Panda Planner. One of the items requested is a daily affirmation. I immediately realized that I don’t do affirmations and, upon reading a few, don’t believe much of what is being affirmed. I suppose “I will get better someday, perhaps, but not really” isn’t an affirmation. More like a wishy washy not so real statement of nothingness. Thankfully, mom’s got this.

I found a website by and for moms that speaks of 7 daily affirmations. The one that caught my eye was “It’s okay not to be okay.” Well, that is a real one for you. See, I am not okay. I am lazy and darkly unmotivated and hardcore into the receive vs. create mode and none of that is very healthy for my soul. I need a balance I haven’t found. I need to have far less kid drama. I need to be grounded and centered in the home space, and I need that space to not feel like a prison/minefield filled with exploding negativity. Yet here we are. So… It’s okay not to be okay.

That might be the best thing I’ve heard in a while. It might be a short path to getting back on some kind of path that drives me towards an eventual happiness. I could use such a thing.

Some Thoughts:

1. Love that the planner challenges me to do more than play Elden Ring.
2. Upcoming vacation from the homestead will do me hecka good.
3. I miss feeling good in my own body.
4. I also still kinda miss youth football. It is clearly an addiction. I’m trying to get off that sad sick drug.
5. Football in general is a form of addiction. Or at least a habit…
6. Panda Planner invented (or just put on paper, to be honest) a habit tracker that seems useful. I might do such a thing for myself for habits both good and bad.

Well, Madden officially broke the NFL. This is best described by the recent trade of Tyreek “Cheetah” Hill to the Dolphins for FIVE picks. FIVE. Trade logic is broken, but at a level and style fairly opposite to Madden. Still, the idea is the same: Dump mad capital for a guy who can help you right now. So much for the old school way of developing a squad and chemistry over years. The Chiefs still (sorta) believe in this idea, but not enough to give all that money to Hill. So what now for the Dolphins? If I’m them I go get Landry. I grab me a solid possession guy/locker room guy like him and put him in a three wide set with the two fastest WR in the league. Then, I hope my QB can get it done. Personally, I haven’t seen that Tua is that guy. He lacks the arm strength to use either speedster right, but with Wes Welker leading them in the WR room, they may develop skills to do all they need underneath.

This is a win for the Dolphins but not so for the Chiefs. Maybe they do find a bunch of guys in the draft, but I don’t know that this is going to be the case. Kelce cannot do it alone.

Some Thoughts:

1. Gonna be a rough season for the Giants. Going to be a building season because the cap is a mess and we need to get through this to get the cap right and, eventually, get rid of some big cap players who are not performing.
2. This right here is the most comprehensive debunking of a UFO video I’ve ever seen. Not to say the object in question isn’t unidentified, but it also isn’t really extraordinary. Also… accidental ASMR for real.