japantown, mtn view, pleasanton

July 13, 2024


  • Katsura Garden has nice plants, i will be back again one day to acquire one and name it Feathers McGraw
  • was supposed to go to a hackathon in menlo park but it's way too far
  • Nijiya Market is a packed j market with lots of sales and MISO PASTE! It has finally been added to my inventory
  • Caltrain down to Mt view was so hot and two groups of people were so loud and annoying
  • played bingo for the first time in Konko church of SF
  • read about experiments, book of daniel was the first ever experiment which is cool, the israelites (including Daniel I assume) were more fit with vegetable sand water only, than the prisoners on the royal feast, how do I not know about this story?
  • mountain view is so nice
  • Therapy Stores in castro st has lots of good books
  • first time in a Model Y
  • Curry Leaves Bistro in Pleasanton, noodles were overwhelmingly spicy
  • Choose pleasanton bart drop off, not Pleasanton/Dublin bart station for Google maps

from I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore

even if you didn't do the thing today, find something to enjoy

  • enjoy the failures and mistakes–they're a sign we're trying
  • enjoy the unknown–it's where we discover something new
  • enjoy the rest, the boredom, the empty moments–that's where we find insight
  • enjoy the busy, too–that's where we can find momentum
  • enjoy the rut–that's where we can discover a new path
  • enjoy the wobble–that's where we find the variances that light us up
  • enjoy the learning–it's where we can never fail
  • enjoy the limitations–it's where we find awe and creativity
  • enjoy the choices we make as well as the plans that change–they're often the making of our lives
  • enjoy the comparisons with another–it's where we find our secret joy
  • enjoy the questions–because life would be dreary if we had all the answers
  • enjoy the doing–because the joy is in the doing, not the done
  • enjoy the incomplete–because that means there's more to come
  • enjoy the moments–if we tend to them, if we get the good out of every bit of them, what a life we'll have created