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For if we declare the job “done”; If we have reached that mountaintop; if freedom for all was truly achieved with the declaration of our intentions and the subsequent amendments to our constitution, then what now should we strive for?

The answer is this: the work towards freedom, justice, and equal rights shall never be done. Even if achieved it requires constant vigilance to maintain. So, as we celebrate what we have, knowing there are those with less, we must re-commit to those values and push further.

— Jul 4, 2021

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I really enjoyed this post and like that Terrance could have said "year sure, I'll try and be more inclusive for you non-Brits", but he didn't. Instead he said:

Here's the thing. No. [...] There's a reason for that. It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use.

Love this, and I appreciate Terrance holding firm on our wonderful British culture - just like everyone should do on their blog. That's part of the fun - to learn about the idiosyncrasies of difference languages and cultures.

It still surprises me that someone had the gall to leave a comment effectively saying "can you change the way you write to be more inclusive, because I don't understand some of the references, and I can't be bothered to learn."

Some people...

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Looking forward to: long weekend

Stuff I did:

• 1 hour consulting + 1 hour business admin
• took Friday off for the holiday
• settling into our new one-cat life — she does her own thing most of the day, so I’m acclimating to not having a buddy around all the time — we’re also trying out an automatic (wet food) feeder to see if that will work for weekends away
• going through the stages of grief — denial and shock, guilt and regret, bargaining and anger — and sleeping like shit (I think I’m still on high alert mode) — I’ve been journaling to help process what happened
• our other cat has been bringing me the shark toy like he used to — I had a mini breakdown the first time she did — don’t know if she also learned that I would reward her with attention for it, or it smells like him still, or she just likes it
• rewatched Idiocracy — wanted to not think about the cat for a while
• weeded for an hour and a half over two blocks — hoped some manual labor would distract me
• went out for Sunday brunch — our town somehow only has one independent diner-y brunch spot, everything else is either a coffee shop or bougie AF — two plates and a coffee was $50 before tip, oof (I saved half my food and turned it into breakfast v.2 the next day, which helped with the cost in my mind)
• financial forecasting — read this article pointing out that our expenses are not likely to be the same for our entire lives, that there are different phases, if you will, of spending — had my husband create a mySocialSecurity account so we could check his expected payment — used this tool to estimate both of our Primary Insurance Amounts and this tool to evaluate when he should take Social Security and when I should (my highest paid years were at an org that opted out of Social Security, plus Social Security reduces your payout if you get a pension — yes my $800/mo pension is a “windfall” — so I will get basically nothing 😜)
• had a couple CDs come to term, and I made my IRA contribution, so invested those funds
• my doctor couldn’t get me to do it, my cardiologist couldn’t get me to do it, my physical therapist couldn’t get me to do it… but Annie helped me break the inertia and actually lift some weights this week! 🏋️‍♀️ Her reminder about weight lifting strengthening bones clicked with my mom’s recent osteopenia diagnosis that I would like to avoid that if possible — thanks and happy birthday! 😉
• walked with my friend — scoped out a new greenway
• baked up the remaining scones from a batch I made a couple weeks back

Dinners:

• scrounge — hummus and pita chips + Rainier cherries
• chickpeas and pasta + ciabatta bread
• fake chicken burgers with pineapple + tater tots
• veggie sausage sandwich + Coke
• bowtie pasta with jarred marinara sauce (added sauteed onions and carrots)
• burrito wraps using air fryer frozen fish (much smaller than expected) + tried one sip of some canned tepache and hated it
• breakfast sandwiches + orange juice

Reading:

• Read Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
• Re-read The Long Game by Rachel Reid
• Finished reading Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe and Ew, It’s Beautiful by Joshua Barkman
• Looked through A Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander,
  Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein — the ebook is basically unusable
• Received Hyperobjects by Tim Morton

Words I looked up:

• noodge
• lissome
• peroration

Pretty stuff I saw:

• nice set of photos from a day trip

Website changes:

My Neat Websites page was getting too long, so I:

• migrated the tools info to its own page — also brought over the graphic design tool links from Graphic Design Resources (which also got some new links added)
• ported the Seattle reference info to my Local page

Nature notes:

• found some sort of burrow that I suspect might be a rat’s nest, literally three feet from the neighbor’s baited rodent trap 🤷‍♀️
• spotted two raccoons in the yard mid-day — they climbed partway up a tree then skittered away
• brown creeper sighting!

In the case of twitter-like systems the limits of the technology basically lost us the web, something most people are just now coming to grips with. At the time people were saying "RSS is dead," but didn't understand that it was killing off most of the features of HTML too. It was a slow process, like the frog in the boiling water story? #

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