I did 2 miles in 14:29 a month ago? Really? I'm not that fast now. Did a mile in 7:30 and I think two in 15:00 minutes would have been kind of hard, though I stopped before that far. Guess more frequent easier runs might have been useful. Going back to that. All the sickness may have been a coincidence. Or the weightlifting, more likely.

61. Clearly some sort of chase but mixed in with a discovery. You discover something and then you're chasing it. And it leads you into greater discovery. Say an underground world, through an old abandoned subway system or such. What is the discovery though and what comes before it such that it flows smoothly and makes sense? How can this by itself be a short story? I don't think it can...

57. Again that's some inventor sort of person... You're at their fantastic place.... Have to relisten...

Thinking of writing some short stories inspired by my songs. 57. rez noise-lots of crazy off the wall inventions... Wife yellling at me to hurry up. There's my 5 seconds of writing for today...

10/2's for 16 miles in 2:27:40 Last couple hurt. That first mile in 7:50 felt pretty easy.

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart First person. Relatively realistic characters. Pretty richly detailed. An account of Merlin based somewhat closely on what is actually known from historical records, although admittedly not as accurate as possible. Accurate enough that it isn't as good of a story as it might otherwise be. But one of the better books I've read in a while. Curious what Mary Stewart can do if she's just entirely making it up. Now back to book three of Gormenghast. Lately with all the fantasy fiction I've read, I've been increasingly dissappointed and I find myself remembering this book though as having stuck with me much better. Definitely one of the best I read. Dislike that it's in third person. Couldn't bring myself to read the third book earlier because I know the author dies right in the beginning of the fourth as his hands literally lose the ability to write and his scrawl slowly becomes entirely illegible. So far in book three nothing has really happened. (Finds city and meets Muzzle....?) It's really just Peake's magnificent voice. That makes nothing much really happening still enjoyable to read as I lay on a swing on the porch in this nice weather with a glass of lambrusco.

10/2's for 16 miles in 2:29.

Saw interesting concert tonight. Again, three cello's beat an orchestra.

Got a research position. Has positives and negatives. I think it's a much less ridiculous position for me. But I liked my old job. Worry I'm a bit too far gone for the more typical interactions one usually has in a workplace. Shall see.

Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh
This book made me understand first and foremost that one should never push a book onto others. I posted something critical of society as a whole on facebook. I wasn't locked up for it. Probably just put on ignore by 80% of people. But strangely someone replied I might like this book.

So being just naturally curious I borrowed it, as it wasn't available on kindle. And now for the last two months I've procrastinated and felt bad that A. I haven't finished it yet. and B. as I think it's crap what am I going to tell the person I borrowed it from???

Offering a book to someone is a horrible imposition. Even if it's Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky, I guess.

I gave up on this book halfway in where with different wording "god" basically says he wants everyone to have an extreme optimism bias and that if bad things happen to you, it's because you actually wanted them to.

But what should I tell the person from work who loaned it to me?

I shouldn't bother saying anything negative about society in any public setting, that's for sure.