July 2026 Journal and Blog Review

 July 2026 Journal and Blog Review

Things to remember

• House
•  Finishing basement project: daily cleaning, trim 2nd coat
• IKEA for bookshleves
• Assemble couches, order rug, buy Costco TV
• install insinkerator
• seal coat driveway; I used 3 buckets
• water through bathroom fan
• circuit breaker goes off July 25; it rebreaks after I reset it
• Garden - 
• heave wave followed by severe storms 
• wildfire smoke from Ontario creates hazzardous conditions in Chicago (air quality alerts for a week)
• install trellis for cucumber; begin getting a few tomatoes mid July; first heirlooms week of July 20
• daily tomato slices on sandwiches week of July 27
• midweek refills of HB sugar water
• 4 days of simpson garden salad for dinner
• JG/Family
• sick july 5 and 6 
• upset bc HG at cottage and M & C drive home when power goes out; HG decides to stay with relatives
• Joe Page's dad dies
• Health
• daily "weight training" of 3 sets different exercises alternate days; 14 days in a row (continues through entire month)
• decide with Dr. Gerard to go on Remicade; pretty normally 5-7 visits to toilets; usually with some urgency
• DRL
• list 
• Fun
• World Cup games
• With JG go to Art Institute
• Avanti with parents; Patio with Anita
• bike to Oak Brook under 293 - first time its been open in years of roadwork
• meet with Andy Jones and Mike at Antico Posto
• Hobbies
• guitar - learning Weiss, fantasia
• cooking - make arepas
• Ideas
•  thinking about how I did a couple hours of HW each day and how little I got done; I need to be more discriminating about what I tackle. Make quick and dirty versions. Get things roughly done,

Blog:

• Booknotes & Commonplace
• Measure for Measure (2)
• On casuistry (5)
• Broaden and Build (12)
• Cybernetics (15)
• Civility (24)
• JS Mill 'On Liberty' (25)
• Interesting ideas
•  begin doing "3 questions answered" #posts (2) (EVOO, meditation dose)
• #* phenophases* temp changes* moving averages* (22)
• Year of Systems (6)
• Midyear taking stock (Krech) (7)
• continue 3*: write a 500-word essay, email now or never, slow maxxing (13)
• *hope for rats *renkle: cling to beauty of world; *planted, cooked, found (erpenbeck)/presents*
• *eno: push medium to limit *sprezzatura* bellflower style
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• My ideas
•  "Praise for..." list (1-34) (I had been doing this on vacation 10x/day) 
• 2016: appetite for life
• thinking about creating "core beliefs" of several meditation people I follow (28) and an index (28)
• Index Index (29) - first attempt at creating an index of types of things in the blog
• Meditation
• Ta 
• Teaching ideas
•  The moment of change (16)
• This semester I invite you to learn (18)
• Useful Ideas
•  Jibun Techo (8)
• 2016 GTD* Eat the Frog* (17)