I promised myself that tonight I would be on my stationary bike by 8:30 p.m. and in bed by 10:00.
Missing the bike objective, I set a new one: 9:00 p.m.
So I sit here at 8:55, watching the minute hand make its way toward the 12, and I think, Should I push that goal back to 9:30?
Doing so would push bedtime back to 10:30 or thereabouts. Too late, really, for someone who sincerely desires to reestablish normal sleep patterns. As in, sleep while it’s dark, etc. and so forth.
Oh dear, oh dear. I’m about to miss the 9:00 p.m. bike time. In fact, I just did. It’s one minute after.
Perhaps it’s not necessary to begin biking on the hour or the half-hour. Perhaps it’s possible to bike for 16 minutes, or 23, or 27. Perhaps getting to bed by 10:03 would be acceptable.
Black-and-white thinking impedes progress. I’ll get on the bike as soon as I’ve finished this post. And if the minute hand happens to be atilt, so what?
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The photograph has nothing to do with the post.
M. K. Waller 
Now that I’m in the Eastern time zone, I have to stay up until midnight to see The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Well, I’m up anyway, but this gives me an excuse and it’s better than playing Solitaire.
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it’s so difficult to get motivated – especially when the cat yawns at you and the dog points out that as he wants to go to bed, it would be rude of you not to join him. đŸ™‚
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William (the cream tabby, who weighs nearly 18 pounds) used to jump into my lap (without warning) when he thought it was time to go upstairs to bed. When he wanted to be especially emphatic, he would jump onto the piano. But he tired of being ignored, so now he goes upstairs without me. I’m sure he would agree I was rude, and he was right. William is always right.
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I’m still up. Watching the Texas Senate. Can’t tear myself away. Well, I could but I wouldn’t feel right if I did. So much for promises.
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I’m so disgusted with the people running things lately. I won’t say more online, but just–can’t anyone think about other people? Not just themselves all the time? And now I shall go back to my fiction world where things are better.
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And here I am wondering if you made it onto the bike, Kathy. Your mind works so like mine. I spend my life re-jigging objectives because I can’t quite bring myself to do them đŸ˜€
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What is going on in Texas? Oh, right the great abortion filibuster. How did that all turn out? Not the bike, heavens is that where all this started?
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