This is the Rule #1 for Neil Gaiman. You have permission.
You can watch the Tim Ferris interview (98 munutes!) conversation here.
What I Do
What do I do? The list of things I have in my list, like:
- Drive Jen to
dentist - Letters !!
- Eye exerdises
- Select photos for October book
- Walk
- Test scanner for color film
Chickwheat
Remains largely undone that day. So, what do I do? I tracked them yesterday. As I finished something I would note the time. The start time would come from the prior entry. Yesterday’s entries included.
8:00 Morning pages
9:20 Coffee & emails, including Austin Kleon‘s weekly explorations
9:37 Brush teeth, shower, and shave
10:05 Latin lessons (3)
…
11:15 Breakfast
11:24 Emails
12:04 Mind of Watercolor YouTube and
…
1:07 Meditation
2:17 Eat lunch, watch Hank Green and Bosh! and Pasta Grannies on YouTube
3:47 Record blood pressure from 9/11 to today, email to
…
4:55 Reading and coffee
6:25 To library and a dinner out
7:55 Reading
11:00 Roku, Pinkly Blinders
Yes, I’m leaving some things out, as indicated by … I was surprised by how quickly I did dishes and how long it took to do things on the computer. Lots of time on YouTube and email processing. Do I need to cut them down? To be explored.
Warning: First Draft
Everything here is First Draft status. It has to exist more than it needs to be right. (Austin Kleon idea, stolen and badly paraphrased.) It is just more important to get things out there, out here, for me to have in place, unforgotten.
Breakfast Afterwards
Now at home we eat well. So much better than the place that will not be named.
Breakfast
Out niece Lucy was visiting (between Boston and Milan, a different story) and she offered to take us out to breakfast. But where? We decided to go to Hawthorne, park, and walk until we settled upon a place. Jennifer had thought of The Hazel Room, but was open to other places. While walking along we saw and was tempted by a place. A place that was a favorite twenty years ago. A place we had not been into in more than a decade. Why not go there? Relive
Because it’s gone downhill. Masivly so. Terribly so. Wonder how they can still stay open. Wonder how they can charge $2.75 for coffee. And we wonder how long they can stay open. We wonder if the founder is still involved with it. And if she’s ashamed of herself.
If you find youself on Hawthone Blvd in Portland, visit The Hazel Room. The place we should have gone to.