Happy Pi day!
Here's an earworm for today. I hope the traditional Pi day food is in greater supply today than toilet paper and hand sanitizer! 100 Digits of Pi
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Diet Creep
No, I'm not a creep on a diet. Although I can't speak for everyone so if you think I'm a creep I'll have to square with that. My meaning is more the slow change in something from it's original position; similar to a slug moving in a garden or weeds propagating through a lawn. Program managers know creep more frustratingly as schedules get pushed back due to various delays. It seems that diet, or other healthy habits, can experience creep as well. One big difference is that this creep occurs from making attempted alterations to ones' lifestyle. Initially the change is easy, it's relieving to feel you're on track for getting healthy. Then the craving happens. The want for a little something else. Then craving, convenience or comfort come calling and chip away at the resolve. Eventually, you are back to the old ways and perhaps wondering what went wrong So why am I writing about this? I guess I'm just in a mode of noticing my choices a little m...
Back to School Germ Pool
My kids started school this last week. A very good thing as I think they were getting bored with the summer routine. Summer is anything but a vacation due to having to manage childcare schedules and it seems the pace of things at work hastens and is more chaotic. The end of summer is then, in a lot of ways, a relief. Schedules become more regimented. Activities are constrained to evenings and non-school days. We know what's going to happen throughout the weeks and months with more certainty. Despite this, there is one thing I dread about back to school. All the kids have been off doing their own things and collecting their own sets of bacteria and viruses. Germs that are different enough that back to school results in a concentration and redistribution of what can only be affectionately called crud. This is a roundabout way of saying that I have a cold. It's annoying enough to deplete me yet not severe enough to place me in bed. Only a week is a little early for me to ful...