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Was scrolling back through and noticed that you had this book. Robert Caro is good. I'm on Master of the Senate (3rd book in his series on Lyndon Johnson) right now and am loving it. What do you think about the book so far?

Don't know that book, but am genuinely curious about where the Macbeth reference comes in to play.

So far so good. Grant by Ron Chernow was really good. It was one of those books that was more than just "Here's a bunch of facts about a person." It got into Grant's struggles with alcoholism and also showed an interesting take on how everything played out after the Civil War ended.

I'm still doing the "One biography for every US president" reading thing, so on the off chance anyone else finds it useful, this is the list I've been picking from: https://bestpresidentialbios.com/curriculum/ Right now, I'm on Days of Fire which is about GW Bush and Cheney in the 2000's, and from there I'm going to move to James Madison.

Last day of the challenge, so now's as good a time as any to reflect and close this one down. First, I'm still not sure of the format of posting my updates. One problem that's caused is when I miss a day, and then it's like "do I update it for yesterday or for today?" I think the broader problem is that I'm over-thinking it. My therapist brought up this concept of being "over-controlled" and mentioned how people who are over-controlled tend to be very rules-based and conscientious. They're hard workers, but also tend to over-think a lot of stuff and be really inflexible when it comes to following protocol (following protocol for protocol's sake). Even in the simpler things such as my NF updates. Maybe the real answer is to stop fixating on format altogether. I dunno. Sometimes, the issue is that I'm tracking my goals in several places. And the goals themselves suffer because I get so overwhelmed with tracking them. Next, Bujo is going great. Love it. Gonna keep doing it. And then, Food and drink. I'm still drinking more beer than I ought to be (it is the holidays after all). We ordered out much less than earlier, and we've been doing better about cutting down on food waste (I made a lot of gumbo over these weeks). Exercise is back on track now that I'm doing my lifts again. Meditation is more or less consistent. Not sure that it's doing anything. I just kinda sit there for 5 minutes every day. Maybe that's the point? Piano is going strong, although I have faltered in my practice these last couple of days. And socializing. Not much to report here, except my outlook towards spending time with people has improved. It means less time in front of the tv playing video games, but that's probably a good thing. More to the point, I feel like I have some sort of role to play when it comes to my friendships, so that's nice (or maybe that's just my "over-controlled" side manifesting itself?) Okay, it's Christmas, and I got shit to do. See y'all next year!

Update for today. Bujo: 🥇 Food: 🥈 Drink: 🎱 Exercise: 🎱 Meditate: 🥇 Piano: 🥇 Socializing Bonus Credit: 🥇 Weekly: Socializing: 🎱 Too many cookies, not enough water, too many beers led to the outcome today. Also no exercise, but it's a rest day. Piano will happen after I hit send. It already happened some during lunch, but that was coordination exercise not-so-fun stuff. Tonight is messing around on my new Christmas Real Book stuff. Bonus credit for joining my buddy on a PS 5 game even though I was just playing a single player game so we could chat while we played games. Also for another therapy session done.

Update for yesterday. Bujo: 🥇 Food: 🥇 Drink: 🥈 Exercise: 🥇 Meditate: 🥇 Piano: 🎱 Socializing Bonus Credit: 🥈 Weekly: Socializing: 🎱 No piano was done. Full credit for food for eating all leftovers and not wasting any food. Partial socializing credit for scheduling hangouts with work friends.

This is really helpful. I did look them up once on YouTube, but couldn't figure out which end was the beginning.

Last night's dinner was tri-tip steaks, potatoes, and a salad. Apparently tri tips are huge in California. I thought they came out great. I didn't expect them to be done so quickly, so we ended up eating at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Thanks!

That sucks when people can't be present.

I've been big into Dimension 20 over the last few months since I have a Dropout subscription and have been wanting to find some episodes of Critical Role. Is that mainly on YouTube or do they have a separate place where they house those episodes?

Today's update. Bujo: 🥇 Food: 🥇 Drink: 🥈 Exercise: 🎱 Meditate: 🥇 Piano: 🥇 Socializing Bonus Credit: 🥈 Weekly: Socializing: 🎱 Today is going to be a chill day. Cooking a tri tip that someone got me for my birthday.

Same. Though, I've got a side-eye pointed directly at the E-vet since we could have paid $3,000 if we'd followed the recommendation of keeping one of the boys there overnight. Turns out, was likely the other one who ate the pills, so we would have thrown $3K at this for nothing if we'd panicked and just gone with whatever we were first told. Not their fault. It was nigh impossible to tell which one ate the pills, and they had logic on their side (dog who had more pieces of pill bottle = likely culprit), but they looked fine, and we had access to our regular vet the next morning.

If a bad Geocities webpage from the early 00's decided to record a Christmas song, this is probably what it would sound like. Partial credit for the "Here Comes the Sun" shout out at the beginning. Edit: Perry Como did that arrangement?