{"id":920,"date":"2018-02-19T20:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2018-02-26T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:24:26","slug":"update-for-2-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/19\/update-for-2-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 2\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thinking<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My analysis essay is trundling along. I&#8217;m hoping to post the rest of it in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Life management<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do my taxes this week. Don&#8217;t let me put it off!<\/p>\n<h2>Beliefs report<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on returning to my beliefs report as a Lenten project. But I want to finish the current phase of my analysis project first. And then I&#8217;ll probably keep working on the beliefs report till I&#8217;m at a good stopping point. So really its timing won&#8217;t strictly coincide with Lent but will overlap it instead.<\/p>\n<h2>Futurism<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s futurism meetup was about futurism itself. The organizer also invited us to suggest topics for future meetings, and it just so happened that I have one. But I wanted to have videos to recommend before I gave him the topic, so since then I&#8217;ve been researching them.<\/p>\n<h2>TV<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I caught up on <em>Black Mirror<\/em> (I rate it 5\/5), and now I&#8217;m on <em>The End of the F***ing World<\/em> (that&#8217;s literally the title, including the asterisks), which has one of the actors from <em>Black Mirror<\/em>, Alex Lawther. He seems to play vulnerable characters with secrets, which is intriguing. Otherwise the show wouldn&#8217;t interest me. So far I like it better than I expected.<\/p>\n<h2>Death<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<p>Sunday I played the piano at the funeral of a church friend, Marilyn. The organizers had asked me to play a couple of weeks before. It&#8217;s good that they did, because I was in Texas when she died, and I hadn&#8217;t heard the news, though it was clear she&#8217;d been declining. I knew her from a couple of ministries we&#8217;d been involved with together. As usual, it was good to hear people&#8217;s recollections, especially since I didn&#8217;t know her that well.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday I&#8217;m attending the funeral of another ministry friend, Rex. He&#8217;d had a few bouts with brain cancer, and this last time it was very aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have heard about Rex either except that I happened to check Facebook at the right time. That was also true of Ray&#8217;s cancer about a year ago. I need a better way to keep up with that site. I rarely visit it because it distracts me so easily.<\/p>\n<h2>Correspondence<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting nice letters and notes the past few months. My sister sent me a very nice thank you\/appreciation card after Christmas. My brother has sent me a few letters and postcards. His latest letter was a very long answer to a question I&#8217;d asked him over email. So now I need to write some replies. I also told another old friend I&#8217;d write her a letter, if I can get her address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking \ud83d\ude42 My analysis essay is trundling along. I&#8217;m hoping to post the rest of it in the next couple of weeks. Life management \ud83d\ude24 I&#8217;m going to do my taxes this week. Don&#8217;t let me put it off! 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