2026-04-08 15:17:17

You have a spatial sense, and when you hear a sound, you typically know where it is coming from. in front, behind, updown, leftright, whatever.

Well that same spatial sense seems to apply to thoughtspeak in my head. Typically, iiii THINK it's a vague spatial sense as if its just ... in my head.

But I was just meditating and I became acutely aware of that spatial sense. My eyes were closed, and so the ... space inside my head ... was larger than normal. Know what I mean?

Like normally, my inside-head-space is a small blip within the world around me. But my eyes are closed, and I'm breathing deeply, and that inside-head-space expands, and the outside world sort of shrinks away, falling beyond the horizon.

And then within that larger inside-head-space, I noticed some thoughts felt like they were located in different spots, different spots in a pseudo-physical space. They wiggled my spatial sense.

I'm really curious about this. I want to pay some attention to this, especially when meditating, at least sometimes.

Sidenote A: The meditations ask me to be aware of my thoughts. Today, I realized I want to be aware of the DRIVER of those thoughts. That little nagging sense at the base of my ... head? idk it's like they're BEHIND my thoughts, spatially, like toward the back of my head? Its weird. Anyway. I want to look past the thoughts and be aware of the feelings or internal activity or whatever the heck it is driving those thoughts. It's sort of a compulsive feeling.

Sidenote B: The guided meditations often ask me to notice thoughts or tensions in my body, to be aware of them & accept them, then gently move my attention back toward my breath. So rarely, if ever, do they ask me to be aware of ease in my body, or to be aware of silence in my mind. Sidenote B part 2: When there is silence in my mind and I am aware of it, this is true peace for me. It is generally short, fleeting, and rarely occurs in daily life. It is common during meditation.

2026-04-06 13:28:00

So I('m pretty sure) I figured out how to find a right triangle when all you have is a ruler or tape measure. There's easier ways - like grabbing something you already own that has a right triangle (such as a RULER! LOL). But what's more fun than figuring out math you don't really need? (I have a compass by the way LOL)

I was thinking about this because I did some woodworking today and made a shelf and I wanted (but didn't get) square corners.

The below picture can be used as a guide.

The black, red, and blue lines must all be the same length. We want to find the blue angle U, the red angle R, and the purple line length L (by measuring for L & using a triangle calculator for the angles).

For the version I did on paper, we get:

U = 71.96    (blue angle)  
R = 122.1    (red angle)  
L = 1.65     (purple line length)  

Now we want to find the length from P1 to X where <BAX is a right angle.

For this, we need to know how far each angle is from 90 degrees, and get the ratio O between those distances.

O = (R-90):(90-U)  
O = (122.1-90):(90-71.96) = (32.1):(18.04) = 18.04 / 32.1 = 0.5619937  
O ~= 0.56  

Since O>.5, this is the portion of the purple line that is covered by P2X, which yields:

P2X = O * L  
P2X = 0.56 * 1.65  
P2X = 0.924  

(if O<.5, we yield P1X)

Now, we draw a point along the purple line that is 0.924cm away from P2, and this point is X.

We draw a line from A to X. Now, BAX is a right triangle & <BAX is 90 degrees.

Original worksheet

This had some mistakes, and I scratched everything except the part along the bottom.

2026-04-06 05:11:00

See Some styles for expandable/collapsable content for first proposal

Styles

details {   
    padding-left: 16px;  
    margin-bottom: 8px;  
}  

details summary {  
    font-size: 1.4em;  
    margin-left: -16px;  
    cursor: pointer;  
}  

details[open] {  
    padding-bottom: 8px;  
}  

2026-04-06 04:36:00

Making these for my bestie, but you can use them too. The styles apply to <details><summary> elements.

Also see: Idea #2

Example HTML:

<details><summary>Heading</summary>  
Extended description that displays after summary is clicked  
</details>  

The Styles:

<style>  
details > summary {  
  font-size: 1.4em;  
  font-weight: bold;   
  display: inline;  
  align-self: center;  
  min-width: 50%;  
  text-align: center;  
  cursor: pointer;  
}  
details[open] summary {  
  border-bottom: 2px solid black;  
  margin-bottom: 8px;  
}  
details {  
  list-style-type: none;  

  padding: 8px;  
  display: flex;  
  flex-direction: column;  
  margin-bottom: 16px;  
  border: 1px solid black;  
}  
</style>  

2026-04-06 04:29:08

My niece & nephew were over all week last week (7 & 13). It was good. I knew the week would take some toll on me. But I took good care of myself, I lied down to rest a couple times a day, I took alone time as-needed, and maintained the majority of my self-care habits.

And I'm pretty sure I mostly got full nights of sleep! (probably aided by how tiring it is to be constantly socializing, and having my routines disrupted)

I was gonna go to my aunt's for Easter today. Food was at 1pm. I had said I might not make it bc recovering from the kiddos, but I PLANNED on it, and yesterday I thought I was going to be well-equipped, at least for a short visit.

Well then I'm playing my games last night (demo for The Loopler, iirc), and I got overwhelmed by a wave of super mega tiredness. This was at 2am. I normally go to bed at 3:30 or 4am. I couldn't do it anymore so I lied down at 2, and fell asleep quickly. (Oops, realizing I skipped brushing my teeth too)

Then I woke up at like 1:58 in the afternoon. Almost twelve hours of sleep. Didn't know I needed that. But I think I needed that.

So I skipped easter. I wasn't gonna eat anyway since I'm fully vegan now. But I was gonna visit.

Ah, well. I feel a bit bad. But I also wanna give myself grace. It's the first family holiday i've missed in years. Oh, plus my best friend is moving to germany very soon and so I've been extending myself for hangouts and errands with her, so that is another factor in my exhaustion.

2026-04-05 10:59:00

I played with night shots on my camera tn. I had done some woodworking, and sawdust was all over. Then I cleaned up tools and boards and whatnot, but hadn't touched the sawdust. I came back outside and it was all piled up in two little piles (only one pictured), and I thought it was cool what the wind had done. So I wanted to capture it. I didn't get any of the good sawdust photos I wanted to, though. Leaves good. Sawdust wasn't ever in focus correctly.

Oh! I had to leaf out the best picture - it had a 30 second exposure looking out from my back porch. The colors on the trees are beautiful - One of them's leaves look vibrantly purple! I think they're pink in the daylight. That photo makes me want to maybe try some photo editing, to pop the colors more. I didn't include it, because it's pic of other peoples's's's's houses.

Leaf

Same leaf

Not another leaf

back patio with 45 seconds of exposure.