Day: March 13, 2026

I’ve been thinking about time and where it goes when I am home. A lot of it goes to gaming. I spend hours playing Slay the Spire, though that is just the latest in a long line of such distractions designed to keep me from dealing with the hard part of my job. Here on the beach I know I can make better and healtheir use of my time, if I just allow for it. No organizer in the world is going to make me do it. This is a matter of willpower I don’t always have.

I do have a desire. What I need to get good at is harnessing that into action and finding the way to prioritze what is important in my life and my actions. Much in the same way I find ten minutes to write this thing, I can find 10 to exercise, ten to write a story, etc. It doesn’t take all the time in the world. It takes the will and the want to do it every single day as opposed to what I have been doing, which is absolutely not that. I languish and lounge and that can be healthy in doses, but it cannot be the source of everything. It cannot come first.

I will no longer blame the environment. That is what it is and I know it to be that way. How I respond is what matters.

Some Thoughts:

1. Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make annual flight to Arctic” That’s wild. And cute in a strange way…
2. Political, but also: “Man who attacked Michigan synagogue lost relatives in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says” This is being treated as a terror attack, but is it? This is largely another example of the oversized media attention towards antisemetic attacks. The “largest” such attack in US history suffered 11 dead. Meanwhile, speak to any other religious, sexual, or minority group to be targeted. The Tulsa attack left nearly 300 black folk dead. Orlando Nightclub attack targeting LGBTQ left 49 dead. Mountain Meadows? 120 Mormons slain. Need more recent that the 1800s for religion? Sutherland Springs. 2017. 26 Baptists dead. Yet, what we hear is that Synagogues need to hire security and shoot first. This is just not accurate. What is true, and what is always true is recency bias and an undercurrent of understanding that what Israel is doing is going to find Americans angry and vengeful.

My legs are sore. I didn’t sleep well. I’m happy as hell.

This trip to the beach is the best I’ve had in ages. The weather is wonderful, and the ocean is very far from shore–much more so than normal, leading me to wade through the waves at the shore and enjoy the water a lot more than I have in the past. I’ve largely detached from the world back home and sunken into the culture and lifestyle here. I haven’t managed to get work done at all, but that is still to come. One of the things I need to get done is switching grad school classes. I ended up in a FLX class, which is not a format that I can work with. Basically, it works like a synchronous online class… in a different timezone… on a day I simply cannot regularly be there. So, that is a hot mess. The classes start next week and I need to figure it out before then. Cannot be behind on this stuff.

That is a problem for tomorrow’s Talislegger, as is the work that needs doing. I’m beaching it today.

Some Thoughts:

1. Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Live Nation employee mocks customers as ‘so stupid’ in internal messages released in court case” Who’s stupid now, Bob?! Seriously, how does it make one stupid when the only option to get tickets is through these mediums and they drive the prices all the way up? Once again, Japan wins culture. They’ve beaten Ticketmaster out of the market with groups like eplus who offer legit prices.
2. Struggling with blurry vision, but that is likely due to spending too much time on my phone. Still, an eye doctor is in order. I missed the free opportunity at school.