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= History: How Does Change Happen? What's Happening Next? =
My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home. Let creativity be a small part of it.


[[A History of Women, Gay People, and Gender-Diverse People in American Politics]]
=To Do=


[[Side Trip: Aristasia]]
When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking.


= Current Events =
What are all the ways I am overworking?


= Politics: Who's Doing What, and How You Can Help Them =
=Routine=


=== [[Civics, Institutional Power, and Social Change]] ===
Daily:
* 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back
* 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises
* 1pm Lunch, nap
* 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff
* 5:30pm Free for friends, etc


https://xkcd.com/1028/
Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic.
* Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior
* Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People
* Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting
* Friday: ModCon Women’s Group


==== Understanding Institutional Capture ====
Weekends Only:
* Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project


==== Nonpartisan Feminism ====
==This Month: Do Things Moderately :) ==


Most of the ideas in here come from / were heavily inspired by Natasha Chart's book, Practical Politics for Bold Women.  Buy it here! - https://chartconsulting.samcart.com/products/practical-politics-for-bold-women
Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort)


What is the solution to capture of feminism by the left, and the possibility of future capture of women's organizations by the right?  I think the best defense is small, fiercely independent women's organizations that know how to collaborate across ideological lines, but also are structured so that they can withdraw support, without incurring damage, when their needs are no longer being met by an old coalition.
Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort)


Whatever network you are part of, they should feel like they have to be on their toes a little bit, because if they no longer hold up their end of the bargain, women's groups can walk away.
Learn about bunion health and try different shoes


This also goes for organizing for LGB people and gender-diverse people.
Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort)


= Social Issues =
Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine


Child Safeguarding
Seek support for internet scrolling issue


Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence
Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees


Commercial Sexual Exploitation
===Next…===


==Women's Status:==
Do Phillips heart monitor


In Public Spaces
Do mail in labs


In the Workplace
Pursue imaging for my ankle


Financial Status
Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort)


Public Leadership
Interview two lawyers (time/effort)


Church
Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort)


Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort)


Go to comedy night (time/effort)


== Compassion Topics ==
Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds


[[Abortion]]
==Next Month==


[[Saving Democracy]]
Stabilize my health habits


[[How Are Women And Men The Same, And How Are We Different?]]
Deepen in Biomechanics


= [[Personal Strength]] =
Pursue advanced medical care


== Mindfulness ==
Run ModCon women’s group


== Behavioral Health and Good Habits ==
Lose a lot of weight (effort)


THESE - Temperature, Hydration, Eating, Sleeping, Exercise
Get pretty good at FinOps


I made up this acronym during a time when I was *not* doing well, and I'm still proud of it.
Get house set up for housemate


Originally I used THESE BFUP, where THESE is physical stuff and BFUP is higher-level stuff.  BFUP is Belonging, Fun, Unwinding, and Purpose.  It's supposed to be pronounced "beef up", as in "These beef up your health and wellness!"  I decided it was more memorable just as THESE.
Pursue justice


See Ocala family on holidays


=== My checklist ===
Do some art and post it on social media


First, I go through the THESE checklist:  
==Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now==


'''Temperature''': Is it too warm or cold where I am? 
After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors


'''Hydration''': Do I need a glass of water, other beverage, or watery food? 
=Health=


I like water, but if you don't, you don't have to drink water.  There's nothing magical about water that exists in a glass by itself.  The water in diet root beer is the same water.  Just watch out for sugar and caffeine. 
[[Appt Notes]]


You can also get water from eating fruit, but that's a slippery slope, because the water in the fruit is also used by your body to help digest the fruit, so you're getting less for hydration. 
[[Leg Pain]]


There is a melon that contains a lot of water.  I'll leave it to you to guess which melon it is.
==Inner Wellness==


'''Eating''': Have I eaten a moderate amount of healthy food today?
IFS


'''Sleeping''': Have I slept enough?
==Food==


'''Exercise''': Have I gone on a nice walk, done some yoga, gone on a fun bike ride?
[[List of foods to remind me of variety]]


== Boundaries and "Winning Therapy" ==
==Adaptive Devices==


== Trauma Healing ==
[[Biomechanics and Movement]]


== Physical Health ==
[[Bunions]]


[[Healthy Skincare: Sunscreen, Makeup, Soap]]
===Home Environment===


[[Health Tips For Fat Ladies]]
[[Active Sitting / Ergonomics]]


== Financial Health ==
[[Sunlight Computer]]


=== [[Low-Effort Backyard Gardening in Central Florida]] ===
==Misc==


== Social Health ==
[[Airway]]


== Spiritual Health ==
[[Leaky Gut]]


=Better Blood=


[[Temp Link]]
[[Legal Justice]]


= [[Faith and Theology]] =
[[Better Blood]]


[[Women and the Major World Religions]]
=FinOps=


[[Commentary on the Divine Feminine from the Major World Religions]]
Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry.  This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do.


[[Perennialism]]
Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades.


[[Prehistoric Religion]]
I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk.


[[Deanism and Filianism]]
Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back.


[[An Atheist Lesbian Desister's Favorite Catholic Takes on Gender Ideology]]
John Grubb
 
Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself.
 
https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success
 
I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it.
 
I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage -
 
You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
 
There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed.
 
=Finance =
 
[[Finance]]
 
=Sparkle House=
 
[[Sparkle House]]
 
=Friends=
 
[[Friends]]
 
= Other =
[[Places In St Pete]]
 
[[Old Front Page]]

Latest revision as of 06:09, 3 October 2025

My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home. Let creativity be a small part of it.

To Do

When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking.

What are all the ways I am overworking?

Routine

Daily:

  • 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back
  • 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises
  • 1pm Lunch, nap
  • 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff
  • 5:30pm Free for friends, etc

Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic.

  • Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior
  • Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People
  • Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting
  • Friday: ModCon Women’s Group

Weekends Only:

  • Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project

This Month: Do Things Moderately :)

Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort)

Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort)

Learn about bunion health and try different shoes

Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort)

Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine

Seek support for internet scrolling issue

Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees

Next…

Do Phillips heart monitor

Do mail in labs

Pursue imaging for my ankle

Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort)

Interview two lawyers (time/effort)

Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort)

Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort)

Go to comedy night (time/effort)

Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds

Next Month

Stabilize my health habits

Deepen in Biomechanics

Pursue advanced medical care

Run ModCon women’s group

Lose a lot of weight (effort)

Get pretty good at FinOps

Get house set up for housemate

Pursue justice

See Ocala family on holidays

Do some art and post it on social media

Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now

After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors

Health

Appt Notes

Leg Pain

Inner Wellness

IFS

Food

List of foods to remind me of variety

Adaptive Devices

Biomechanics and Movement

Bunions

Home Environment

Active Sitting / Ergonomics

Sunlight Computer

Misc

Airway

Leaky Gut

Better Blood

Legal Justice

Better Blood

FinOps

Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry. This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do.

Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades.

I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk.

Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back.

John Grubb

Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself.

https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success

I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it.

I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage -

You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed.

Finance

Finance

Sparkle House

Sparkle House

Friends

Friends

Other

Places In St Pete

Old Front Page

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