Activity Matrix

My Life

So I’m here in my room in Berkeley, alone, with my computer, my books, and my Alexa, wondering what to write, read, and listen to.  I bought a bag of dark chocolate peanut m and m’s, but I’m hoping to make the bag last at least a week.  It's in the candy dish, for visitors. I got 2 heavy bags of free groceries from the food pantry yesterday, in addition to a trip to Trader Joe’s (1 bag).  If anything, I might have too MUCH food.  I’m contributing some to the household.  I’ve got 4 tubes of beef in the freezer, so a pound a week will last the month.   I like it on rice, with hot sauce.  

Anyway, this is my To Do list (matrix?):

4 books

Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (453pp)

The World’s Religions, by Huston Smith (391pp)

Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (390pp)

Freud and Beyond, by Mitchell and Black (265pp)

   (1500pp, total, let’s say)

News, too

(1.alexa flash briefing)

2. Daily New York Times and 3. wikipedia and 4.yahoo

5.weekly Economist/ 6.Christian Science Monitor, 

7. every other month Foreign Affairs

book/day: Newbery award winners, Neil Gaiman, library browse

   1001/501/bloom canon, bill gates rec’s, sara/pierre; english/spanish dictionaries, trivia, wikipedia, Spanish;  1000 events, bathroom readers (5), onion (2), (owned) literature (s. king, r. bradbury, etc.);

Daily history (5), email clear (book excerpts, trivia, poetry, vocab, Wapo and nyx news)

    (plus, actual email correspondence with family)

    (jokes, happiness) (masd books) (health materials, kp/psych, webmd)

Daily music (1001 songs, Alexa song of the day), standup/jokes

Etb, etr.  early to bed, rise.  vitamins, oatmeal, gnc.   Daily sweat.  

Exercise/tv, $ (dogwalking), meditation, Alexa jokes, coffee and pastry, check blog stats, hos (hearts of space);  Write, religious variety, nature, yoga, gtu (graduate theological union, library), cal library, new restaurants, Burmese, Joe frank, shop;  Bfp, bfc, (Berkeley food pantry, free clinic), lottery, msj (mission San Jose)  masd/dojo visit (martial arts, self defense), amazon prime, clean room, shower/hygiene (brush, rinse). Do nothing, nap, stretch, pizza, print blog, PILES (basket, box, box), see movie, go to a play, museum, goodwill, ted/onion/oyc/coursera, (open Yale courseware) dating, Pinterest, instagram, fb (facebook), arts and letters.

family meals in SF, glen park.

travel, Portland visit, Arizona with Greg?  japan, europe, Belize again, Puerto Rico.

Shop list:

Big book of series, superbetter, aletheon, 3 person chess, e-bike, water fountain, hammock, buddha statue, birdseed/nectar, Tesla, Mercedes van, masd books, bruce lee fighting method, grapple app, Joe frank, thick sweatpants, waterski, spike and mike, taiko, onion books, trivia cards, wbsm (win ben stein's money) book, prison lit tablet, learn French, dating apps/service, pro cuddle, massage, pro frisbee game, gifts, cbd (try cannabidiol), couscous, mud pie, cd player, roof foamer? Hockey tix, whole earth festival, browse half price books / amazon, whitewater rafting, house, hovercraft, pool; whale watching, fishing.

Support: Microloans, msf (doctors without border), red cross, mfa (mercy for animals), libraries/internet;  vs. homelessness, shelters, Yang (I like his UBI idea)

(Universal Basic Income)

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Coffee (folgers, in my mr. coffee, a pot, shared with Michael, 2 or 3 cups for me, with milk or half n half) and a pastry (trader joe’s chocolate croissant).  Vitamins (gnc mega men multivitamin, 2 in the morning, and also gnc fish oil, 1 soft gel, from my 360 bottle).  A bowl of instant oatmeal, maybe with brown sugar and/or berries).

Music (Amazon music, on my Echo), and History (wikipedia, britannica, history channel book, grim reaper book, and farlex).  Flash briefing and song of the day.  I like college radio, grateful dead, and baroque.  Whrb (harvard) orgy, or jazz in the morning.  Grateful Dead (gdradio.net), wprb (princeton), kzsu (stanford), wybcx (yale), kalx (Cal), wmbr (mit), kcpr (cal poly slo), mainly. 

Book/day.  Read and Write and Rithmatick.

Currently working on Bill Gates’ favorite book!  Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (harvard professor).  Write blog.  Keep budget updated, calculated.

Daily news.  1.Flash briefing (NPR, CNN, WSJ, Tonight Show monologue), 2. Yahoo news page and 3. E-mail (ny times summary and Wapo Daily 202);   Library daily 4. NY Times, and weeklies (5. CS Monitor, 6. Economist) and 7. FA (Foreign Affairs, every other month, at the Cal library).  Plus news on the 8. wikipedia page.  Plus, The 9. Onion (fake news), and 10. Facebook.  11. Instagram has some news, sometimes, too.  In the know!  If I’m really on top of things, I’ll read 12. La Jornada (news in Spanish, at the Bkly public library).  How much time does this all take?  Travel time to the libraries, reading all 12 sources front page to back?  (speedreading, ideally!)

Exercise and dogwalking, stretch, gnc protein powder, gym (stationary bike, free weights, pool), yoga? (free! At yoga to the people, :-).   Hot tub, shower.   Delicious, healthy food!  

    Masd (books, youtube, dojos).  Dating!

    Walk and bike, jumprope and jog, pushups and planks and passes, lunges and shakes…  dance!

Early to bed, early to rise.  Go to bed tired, wake refreshed.  Nightly meds.  

Retire 8:30p, Up at 4:30a!!  Git r done.