Now Look!

Time for Timer.  What, you dropped the ball?  When your little voice head has to scream at you, pay attention to what to do instead.  I have a childhood voice stuck in my head from an after-school cartoon character called Timer.  He had a long run of episodes with rhyming songs.  I incorporated the character and his rhymes into my self-awareness system.  For example, I can't leave my doors unlocked because I live in Hollywood.  So my song goes like this: "Now look, you live in Hollywood and life is really rough, better keep your door locked or people will steal your stuff."  As I have been working on building new systems and checks to keep me on track the addition of Timer rhymes has been a useful tool.  Childish I know but we should accept the truth from where ever we hear it.  I am partial to hearing it from rhymes.  Working independently, or from home, one can use all the queues one can make to replace the normal workday/week guideposts provided by a normal job.  I think I picked this up when I was working in the grocery industry.  Every week there would be a new schedule so I had to be ready to change my plans around from week to week.

What am I reading?

I have been reading an anthology of short stories that are spell-binding.  J.G. Ballard The Complete Short Stories. I got on the treadmill and lost track of time listening to a couple of stories. They are original and captivating.  I do notice some of the stories from their use in television and movies. Many more cover themes of time travel and far-flung future events.