I had a couple of concepts for a publish this week. One thought was to put in writing about how social media displays actuality in the identical method that getting punched within the genitals is like laying in a hammock on a heat summer time’s day. One other thought was to put in writing about final Saturday, after I carried out a number of manly acts: putting in a Flume on our water meter, killing a cricket with my naked arms, and taking out a wasp nest with nothing however my wits and one of the best chemical substances Lowe’s sells. However then I went to yoga and struggled to seek out my method right into a figure-four plank, which gave me the concept I ought to about how frustration isn’t the byproduct of failure, however quite the lubricant.
As a substitute of writing, nevertheless, I procrastinated. I marinated some tofu for dinner. I did a load of laundry. I performed some John Denver, who has been in heavy rotation round right here for the reason that election. I used to be about to textual content Christina at work to ask her what I ought to write about, after I remembered that this was the final Scenario Regular publish of the 12 months.
When you’re new to Scenario Regular, we now have a practice. It’s referred to as celebrating your wins. We celebrated our wins in 2020 — a 12 months constructed for dropping, if ever there was one. We did it the next 12 months, too. I feel we skipped 2022, or possibly I simply suck at looking the Scenario Regular archives. However I do know for certain we did it final 12 months, and I’m optimistic we’re doing it this 12 months.
I completed the primary draft of a brand new novel. It sucks rhino-ass, however first drafts are presupposed to suck rhino-ass. I’m revising. It’s getting …. higher.
The scenario normie neighborhood kicked off some not-so-serious journalism at Scenario Regular. Predictably, the bagel story impressed outrage, whereas the story about consuming burritos horizontally led to mass confusion. Nonetheless, I’m trying ahead to extra nonsensical reportage in 2025.
My yoga follow is 2 years outdated.
Once we bought married, Christina and I promised one another we’d go to Paris. Fourteen years later, whereas watching the Olympics, we booked tickets and made good on that promise. We additionally rented a golf cart and drove it across the gardens at Versailles (a Scenario Regular for an additional day).
I saved my marriage by getting an APAP machine, which is the Cadillac of CPAP machines.
For the primary time in 4 a long time on this planet I confronted my melancholy. Then I confronted American healthcare. It was a motherfucker. However ultimately I sorted out the medication scenario, the remedy scenario, and the Ok-Fuck Radio scenario.
After a 20-year profession in media, I bought a brand new job that checks all of the bins for me.
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