Day: April 6, 2023

I started a new strategy program called Bento Box. It is a cueing program more than anything. It plays music while you move through a series of 3 tasks. The idea is timer based. It gives you X amount of time to do 3 activities. You pick the actions. Today’s three are this blog, grading papers, and working on the novel. I’m in a conundrum on that last bit, because I do have solid fear that the plot does not entirely work. The idea starts out solid, but how it ends???? Haven’t gotten there yet.

Anyway, this is a post about lists and how I need the cue to function properly. I do. I’ve tried allowing myself to operate freeform, and honestly, I’ll just sit around and do anything else but the work required. This program, and it’s soothing sounds, is a good start to get me moving and able to visualize what needs doing.

What needs doing in my daily life is a lot of things. What needs doing most of all is writing and the health stuff–likely in that order. Being contracted to write a novel is a big deal, and if I want to continue being contracted as I have, then I need to deliver the goods on time and in good order. This is a priority in my life. In truth, this represents my entire endgame. I want to spend the backend of my life writing stories and traveling the world with the future Mrs. Talislegger. This is all.

Some Thoughts:

1. Okay, this is not all. I still have time on the clock, and decaf in my veins (coffee might be partly psychological), so I’m still going hard here.
2. Whenever I have nothing left to say, my mind drifts to sports. I don’t know how to feel about that or even truly appreciate if it matters. I’ve been conditioned–maybe I’ve conditioned myself to feel a certain way about this world.
3. Nick Fury is back planet-side apparently. The Secret Wars trailer dropped and looks interesting. I watched it while waiting in the cue for a Covid booster. No notes.
4. I need a good show to watch… Mando is only weekly. There’s Picard though…

First off: I remain in like with Bijan Robinson. Giants should always draft best available talent and he’s it at 25. Unless he isn’t….

Moving on.

Track. It is a highly complex conversation to have, because you are, in essence, talking about individual achievement that can vary from run to run, and is always measured by your PR, but held in live competition, so whatever you do that day is what you do. Yesterday my last born ran 10.84 in the 75m hurdles. That obliterates the school record (though it doesn’t count because it was hand timed) and would’ve been good enough for #2 nationally in that event and distance last year. It’s half a second better than the kid he’ll be pushing as a freshman next year. Better than that, he found his confidence in the moment. He found his mojo, and didn’t even run a perfect race. He has a lot of areas to improve on, and that is going to mean he is going to continue to drop as he ages up. This is ideal. His brother is stalled right now, which in of itself is a HUGE accomplishment. He is coming off a broken leg and is still setting PRs–though they are only slightly number than his peak last year. He’s going to get better and better and better over the year and he’s going to be a top talent in the state by next year. Presently, he’s top 20. He will be top 10 by the end of the year if he gets his mind back to where it needs to be.

Today he’s running the 300m, and friday he’s off to Cali for the huge Arcadia/Nike open and that is going to be a show. He’s going to shine. They both are.