Floats your boat? Puts pep in your step?
I love the burst of energy and enthusiasm I get when fall comes, but I need to work on it when the weather turns warm. At the moment I’m doing two things;
Reading my favorite comics first thing in the morning: I subscribe to gocomics.com and have a list of favorites there. It starts the day on the right note.
Andertoons
Remembering my avatar: I’ve subscribed to YouTube and when I connect to it, my favorite avatar comes up:
It reminds me that happiness is a garden:
Pulling the weeds, nurturing the flowers, delighting in watching things grow.
So, do I have pep in my step right now? Am I delighting in watching things grow? Not at the moment. When I stated writing this post yesterday, I kept thinking of
I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have been attacking me at once.
All sorts of little annoyances have been popping up lately. The biggest one is that our internet is sometimes extremely slow and even briefly loses connection. That’s one big weed! So I decided to face up to it. I’m trying to understand when it happens so I can isolate the problem and talk to a technician about it. I spent a few hours yesterday talking to my buddy, Claude AI, and he told me how to run a program in the background to record every time it goes out. It lost connection 21 times in less than 3 hours last night, so I’ll probably talk to Century Link today.
It’s not fun, but it’s better than feeling helpless. And I will no doubt feel chuffed when/if we get it straightened out. I will let you know!
June 13, 2026
