Notes
I finally got around to ordering ALL the socks. They should arrive tomorrow.
The sock gnomes may have won the battle, but they won’t win the war!
According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought. Worse still, most of them are small enough to penetrate deep into our lungs.
🔗www.sciencealert.com/study-rev…
The Midnight Letter
It’s been my goal since the start of the year to eventually (one day, maybe) launch a physical newsletter. You know, something that arrives in the mail, as opposed to something delivered to the inbox. Yesterday I purchased themidnightletter.com domain, just to have it. It might start out as a newsletter for Project: Midnight. I haven’t quite decided yet.
Within Project: Midnight (temporary title), the Midnight Letter is part of a bigger plot. I have this in my story bible so far:
So far today:
Went to the dentist.
Broke a tooth.
(In that order).
Archaeologists carrying out excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis recently made a discovery that offers new insights into the royal lineages of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. The tomb of Prince Userefre, the son of the pharaoh Userkaf, has been unearthed along with a false door made of rare pink granite.
🔗allthatsinteresting.com/prince-us…
Ideal Number of Daily Steps Isn’t as Many as We’ve Been Told
This latest research paper looked across a broad spectrum – not just whether people died, but heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, depression and even falls. The results tell a fascinating story. Even tiny increases matter. Jump from 2,000 to 4,000 steps daily and your death risk drops by 36%. That’s a substantial improvement.
🔗www.sciencealert.com/ideal-num…
I’m convinced there’s some kind of vortex in or near my dryer that opens up during loads and sucks up socks and wool balls. I’m down to one wool ball. I also don’t have a single pair of matching socks anymore. How does this happen? Is it a curse? Is there some kind of portal in my laundry room? Have the underwear gnomes expanded their business ventures?
I have questions.
Caution: Wet Paint
Been in the mood to play around with CSS so both my main site and my micro.blog got a fresh coat of paint. Happy so far though I’ll probably keep playing around with it because it’s fun. Watch your step.
Renewed one of my WoW subscriptions since it’s Comp Stomp week and I still haven’t gotten that mount from Tazavesh. For my second account I bought an overpriced WoW token for 333K gold (ouch) but I’ll leave it in my bags for now. I might let the second account expire, so I’m currently going character by character making sure there’s nothing in the mailbox. Though knowing myself I’ll probably wind up posting auctions anyway. Need to make back those 333K somehow (sob).
Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future
As Mary K. Greer explains, in a 1933 lecture Jung went on at length about his views on the Tarot, noting the late Medieval cards are “really the origin of our pack of cards, in which the red and the black symbolize the opposites, and the division of the four—clubs, spades, diamonds, and hearts—also belongs to the individual symbolism.
They are psychological images, symbols with which one plays, as the unconscious seems to play with its contents.” The cards, said Jung, “combine in certain ways, and the different combinations correspond to the playful development of mankind.” This, too, is how Tarot works—with the added dimension of “symbols, or pictures of symbolical situations.” The images—the hanged man, the tower, the sun—“are sort of archetypal ideas, of a differentiated nature.”
- Played around with the CSS after pointing my highlights feed to micro.blog instead of Notion
- Gave highlights and notes a different look to differentiate between the two
- Added an RSS page