TGU

Monday, September 20, 2010

5:30 AM. Tired already, as I’ve been up a couple of hours doing e-mail etc. after I couldn’t sleep longer. You guys have anything in particular in mind?

You’ll notice that the first thing you do in the morning is apt to be the tone-setter. Listening to radio programs about allegations of secret science, etc. isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing to do, any more than Free Cell while you listen, but it will produce a different effect than prayer or meditation or thought or reading novels or playing music or anything one might do. The primary reason you are past 270,000 words in this is that this is your habit now — for as long as you don’t depart from it — and therefore it gets done regardless if anything else does.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

5 AM. Pretty fair night’s sleep, after doing some robot work around it with Viki yesterday. I am compiling a list of questions about it to ask. Funny that this is the first time in my life that I have ever thought to ask them. Friday night I took a couple of valerian capsules to see if it would improve my sleep perhaps by resting the body — relaxing it, I mean — but I forgot to do it again last night, so I have no standard of comparison.

It occurs to me, I should include what I got when I asked, yesterday morning. A funny feeling, to be asking with no very clear idea of what or whom I am addressing. TGU? The body?

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

5 AM. A better night’s sleep then I had a right to expect. All right, I get that if we are going to reprogram our robots, it takes analysis among other things, and I can see what I will have to do but I don’t see that I need to do them in public, though I’m willing to be corrected. So — you all have anything on your minds?

It has been a big week, with many developments. Take a moment to scan the typed up conversations.

Even a fast scan of the week’s conversations reminds me of how much material is piling up here!

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

5:20 AM. I am feeling very blessed by friends these days. My brother volunteers to search my files for specific information, to pull it together. Bob volunteers to make an index of material month by month, Gary comes by specifically to have a chance to chat, buys me dinner, buys the new Clarke books and the new version of Sphere And Hologram, Michel sends information on ways to combat asthma, Neil sends inhalers. And this hardly exhausts the list of support provided, it’s just a few recent examples. Nancy’s contributions, for instance, extending over nearly 3 years, could hardly be even comprehended in full, let alone listed.

Your wagon train analogy.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

5:15 AM. Surprisingly, a solid night’s sleep. I’d have bet the other way, but I’m glad to have been wrong. But I’m sort of tired this morning, and blank, so I hope you guys have a topic in mind. I’m really tempted to skip doing this, but I know I’d be sorry in a few hours.

It wouldn’t be the end of the world if you took a day off. But there is support in routine. It’s usually worth pushing through a little reluctance or fatigue — or pain, if it came to that — to see how deep it is. Sometimes the weather isn’t propitious (internal weather or external weather for that matter) but so what?

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