resilience

Good Days Are Built, Not Found

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Some days don’t arrive as “good days”. They just… arrive. A bit flat.A bit heavy.Like you’re already behind before you’ve even started. And there’s this quiet expectation — that somewhere in the day, it should turn.That something will click and suddenly it becomes a good one. But more often than not… it doesn’t. It just … Read more

The Carry Forward Principle

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I don’t think I realised how much energy I was wasting starting over every day. Not physically. Mentally. Every morning had this quiet reset baked into it: And before that, even earlier, there was another version of it: “The sun will come up tomorrow, and it won’t be nearly as bad as you think.” That … Read more

This Old Dog Is Still Learning Old Tricks

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I’ve been working with UNIX/Linux for 30–40 years. You’d think by now I’d have seen every trap. Turns out — some of the oldest ones are still the sharpest. The Setup I’ve got a simple media pipeline: Except… the disk wasn’t mounted when I first built it. Linux didn’t complain.It just quietly wrote everything to … Read more

Falling Off the Wagon

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Morning numbers:B6.8 / K0.1 – Ketones need to be above 1.0No glucose detected. Not terrible. Not great either. Yesterday was a good reminder of something easy to forget. Made muffins.Off-the-shelf mix.Licked the bowl like a 8-year-old.Picked at the crumbs after they came out. Breakfast was baked beans.Then a couple of stolen chips off a plate.Kumera. … Read more