Things on my mind #10 — Blog

Lovely to hear “Amazing Grace” during general conference. Here’s hoping it’s in the new hymnbook so we hear more of it in sacrament meetings.
I recently got a Keychron K3 Pro mechanical keyboard for work. Love it. Didn’t think I would — I’ve been devoted to standard Apple keyboards for a while — but it’s a clickety-clackety delight. (On a related note, before that I had tried a Logitech Pebble keyboard and liked it well enough, but the need for AAA batteries turned out to be a dealbreaker.)
I’ve found my level of interest in making art is often tied to how much interest other people show in the art I’ve made. Which is probably natural, but not ideal. Hoping to decouple the two.
I’ve stopped including explanations with my religious art pieces. (Going forward, it’ll just be the title and the scripture reference.) Haven’t decided yet if I’ll go back and remove them from the existing art pages.
A week or two ago we went through a drivethrough. “Your total is $9.41,” the cashier said. I looked at the clock. It was 9:41 pm. I took an inordinate amount of delight in this. (I will not try to make it happen again, tempting though that is.)
I think I spend too much time optimizing for potential post-apocalyptic conditions.
In the last couple months I’ve found myself accidentally repeating mannerisms my dad used to have, more frequently than before. It’s a bit uncanny.
iOS keyboard entry has gotten so buggy for me (at least in PWAs) that I find myself not wanting to write anything long on my phone. This wasn’t always the case.
The metal nub on my Apple Watch band has been wearing away the finish on my laptop and my desk. Oops.
Sometimes I’ve thought that when I’m making things, pain (physical or mental) means I’m doing something wrong. But I think that idea is wrong. Some pain is acceptable, especially because it’s (usually) transitory — time washes it away and all that’s left is the thing I made. (For me, this is mostly in context of my back and neck pain.)
My mind boggles at how much we’ve been able to figure out about stars and planets and atoms and subatomic particles given how little you can see with the naked eye.