Saturday night

Happy 40th birthday, bro!

The world is in turmoil.   elections, demonstrations, riots, wars, displacement and migration, climate change, artificial intelligence, billionaires and homelessness, the internet providing access to omnipresent near- omniscience, quantum computers, trump and his stream of idiocy and foolishness… my family and my roommates and friends, and my routines (early to bed, early to rise), trying to be more vegetarian, and use and improve my spanish, and do things like go to glide memorial, or explore Tilden park, or do (free!) yoga, or simply do daily fit-bits of exercise like push-ups or planks, or fly a kite with my nephew in SF, if I can…

Personally, besides blogging, I walk dogs with Wag! (am I still an independent contractor?  There was a court case..), and read books, and try and keep up with news (i bought a ny times subscription), and daily history, and fill in the time with trivia cards and amazon echo (‘alexa’) music and jokes, and some exercise (i have a gym membership), with the abundance of youtube videos (i especially like self-defense, and cirque, and magic, and mtv ridiculousness videos).  I want to buy cool Christmas gifts for everybody, and produce an excellent blog (which gets around 85 page views a day), and of course, be all I can be.

Fires and hurricanes and corruption and human rights abuses and terrorist threat and cyber-insecurity and filter bubbles and so many things to do, like ted talks, or J! Archive, or wikipedia, or Joe Frank…. There’s just so much going on.   I want to read Bloom’s canon, and Bill Gates’ book recommendations, and all the award winners, and the best American series, and the 1001/501 must-read lists, and listen to the 10,001 songs (from another book).   There’s really too much homework I’ve assigned myself.  Life is great, and never boring, even when I retreat into meditative silence, which is ALSO important.  I have like 10 joke books.  That's a fun world to go into, periodically (including standup comedy).

That’s enough.   I don’t need to have a girlfriend, or be in a relationship - I’m happily asexual.  I’m doing something, 24-7.  I’m as productive and healthy as I can be, and aiming high, for mental health as well as being physically fit and strong, and grateful and appreciative for my amazing life.   If I don’t do anything wrong, then I’m doing something right.  If I’m not suffering, then I’m enjoying the comfort.  Life is simple.  Being good, which in itself is being God, is simply not being bad.   That’s doable.  That’s not something unhuman or impossible.   That’s a gospel I can preach to everybody, no matter what you believe.   Getting paid to exercise is a pretty good deal.   Engagement in my blog and learning and music and books and the news and health is an example that I think exceeds even the level of our current president (!).   I'm not lying an average of 22 times a day.   So, call me crazy, but I think my life is insanely sane.   Peace be with you.  Shalom.  Peace be unto you.  May the force be with you.  Peace out.  Aleikum.