a post that is not a tasklist!!

[rax]

Life is pretty good! Here are some updates that were too large to send to Twitter! It’s an exclam day! I'm vaguely sick but I took cold medicine so I'm still enthusiastic and excitable and a bit loopy!

• Magic: I’m playing Magic! I meant not to get into it super seriously, but I got recruited into a team, cardagain.com, and now I’m editing for their

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[kelkyag]

As long as the Magic folks recruited you to play and not just to edit the website ... :)

I more or less grok doing-nice-things-for-future-self. How does doing-nice-things-for-past-self work?

[rax]

A decent percentage is changing my attitude toward past sel[f|ves], but I'm also trying to acknowledge and honor the desires and aspirations of past-rax where those things don't conflict with my current values?

[encephalogistic]

Reminds me of a recent financial discovery I made. In elementary school, they had a program designed to Promote Sound Financial Planning; the gist of this is that a nearby bank had created a special high-interest category of savings accounts for the local elementary school, and the kids would dutifully put a buck or two in the account every week. Then at the end of the year, it would be revealed how much money had accumulated, and the small children would presumably be impressed.

For whatever reason, right year old me never actually withdrew money from the account, and it sat in an unclaimed funds pile for about twenty years. I was recently made aware of this, and decided to spend it on something that eight-year-old me really, really wanted (Hero Quest). A surprisingly fun and rewarding exercise.

[kelkyag]