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Whoa: Buddha’s hand!

I think I was so shot through with adrenaline when I got through Bionic Commando that I don't remember Hitler's head exploding at all. Or maybe it was edited out of my version?

The guy chose almonds as his snack and is reading a Pogo comic from 1956. Weird accidental retro leisure!

I think ten minutes of running was about the right amount of running yesterday. I feel it in the hip hinge muscles and, uh, upper buttocks (?), but walking is not impeded. Fifteen minutes next time!

Very weird to think that I used to run eight miles, for over an hour.

The US seems to be managing a tech tree for Ukraine. They wait until Ukraine gets good with a weapon, then gives them the weapon at the next level up.

Also, I learned the Germany is now the top manufacturer of battle tanks. And they are called “battle tanks”. I guess there’s also more casual tanks.

Ten-minute run, twelve pull-ups.

10-4-4-4-4-14.

It’s important to get back to doing full workouts, which is partly why I did this, but mostly I did it because I was feeling a lot of anxiety about the fence.

That kind of anxiety has a slow burn like Indian food can have. By the time the fence builders left, I was like whoa it turns out I am anxious.

It mostly went well. At one point, I heard my neighbor talking with the builder loudly, and I thought she was angry about something. But I saw her outside later and said hi, and she seemed fine.

The fence is not going to have a finish on it, which I didn’t think about before. We can easily finish our side, but I don’t know how we can get the neighbors’ side. At a glance, though, it looks like cedar will last 25-30 years without finish, which is good enough for me.

I hope this anxiety about hiring people to do things recedes before we do our kitchen remodeling. Because if it’s like this for months, that will be not good.

My therapist has ghosted me (hopefully it was that and not some emergency), and I thought about just forgetting therapy. It was nice to talk to someone about my doom thoughts, but I had a hard time accepting some of the premises of her therapy. I think that prevented the growth in my mental powers that I was hoping for.

I should look for another one because I really do want to be able to operate vigorously even if I think things are bad, but much like figuring out what a high school is like, finding a therapist is a total shot in the dark.

So, Bill Ward was actually playing timbales on Children of the Grave.

This is the most enduring Black Sabbath album for me. The production is extremely good: Tony was trying a lot of new things, and I’m very pleased with the drumming. I was pulling off a lot of new things that I’d been trying to do for three years, such as my double bass work in Children Of The Grave. There’s a lot of different bass drum movement, and I play the timbale with my left hand on that song too.

I’ve always just just assumed he’s able to make tom toms somehow sound like kettle drums.

The fence is going up fast. Perversely, so fast it makes me wonder if we’d been ripped off.

But of course, it’d be worse if the fence guys worked more slowly. Plus, there is around 500 sq. ft. of wood being used, which is probably at least half the cost.