Holidays
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I didn’t do anything on the Christmas labels last week. Too many other activities crowded my evenings. I’ll see what I can do this week. The good thing is I already have my idea and I don’t think it’ll be too hard.
Productivity
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I finished setting up the Notion dependency timeline. I was especially pleased with the way I got it automatically laid out in an outline-like arrangement like this one by giving each task a sort key made of the item IDs of its ancestors. Now I’m linking the tasks I came up with for making my system more usable so I can use the dependency view to find out which tasks to focus on first.
Nature
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I solved the mystery of the depth of one of my regular lakes. One of my walking spots has a couple of lakes with piers that extend to the middle of them. I’ve always wondered how deep they were. The water is pretty opaque, and I was imagining 3 to 6 feet. I sometimes feel uneasy around dark water. You never know what could be lurking in the murk or how far down you’d fall if you tumbled in.
But the day I walked there, the low water level made me wonder if these lakes were actually pretty shallow. So I found a stick about 2-3 feet long with convenient branches to divide its length. I took it to the end of the nearest pier, crouched down, and, with a little trepidation, dipped it into the unknown.
When the water was almost to the first branch, the end of the stick encountered something squishy. I pictured a layer of seaweed at the bottom and cringed a bit. But I tried again and struck solid ground under the mush. No lake monsters leapt out to grab me, and I determined that the depth was only about a foot. The squishy layer was mud, which billowed up when I lifted the stick.
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We’ve reached peak fall again. I’ve learned that this is the best time of year for me to be in a bad mood, because when I’m driving around and a brilliant tree comes into view, it instantly captivates me and blows the clouds out of my mind.
I’ve also wondered about the depth. Glad you solved the mystery.