Several people (including me) expressed some interest as to what exactly I am doing these days. My standard answer is "wasting my life", which is pretty much close to the real truth. The problem is my goals, whatever they are, are not quite compatible with just "wasting my life". Thanks to this conflict, I'm actually still doing a bit of everything - breathing, eating, sleeping, thinking, being somewhere between mere existence and life.
So here's my quick bleak look at the last few days of it all.
I may update this page later, but new status updates will be published separately.
Physics
I'm sleeping 7-8 hours a day. Sounds healthy, but it never seems enough.
I'm doing very little exercise, if any. I guess 10-15 push-ups and 20-30 pull-ups a day can't keep a young body in any shape, so sometimes I skip even that for days.
I get out to walk once or twice a week, that doesn't do much difference, too. I keep telling myself to start jogging.
I'm eating a lot. Grains, fruit and vegetables mostly, plus some vitamin supplements. Doesn't sound like much, but I believe I've been consuming over 3000 kc daily for the last couple of weeks. I also believe I'm spending about 1000-1500 kc on average. At this rate I'll be changing from "average" to "some extra pounds" at social networking sites.
My posture is going to hell. I actually think it's already there, but I'm not sure where it's going if it is. Apparently it has its influence on overall condition, but I don't feel it yet.
In spite of my terrible lifestyle, I can't complain. I know a body can only take so much of inactivity, so the choice is simple. Either start doing lots of exercise or expect very nasty surprises a few years down the road.
Mind
Pretty stable
I had a bout of some sombre mood not so long ago, still feeling its after-effects
I wouldn't say my condition is great, but it suits me perfectly right now
Education
Very sporadic, very random
When I don't skip, I watch a lecture a day of PACS164a course, Introduction to Non-Violence by Michael Nagler, from http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
I may watch some other courses from Berkeley, but the ones I had a glance of (introductory physics and computer science) don't seem very worthwhile, it's probably just me
When I don't skip, I watch a google techtalk a day. Not quite educational, but not a total waste of time. An hour of talk really leaves more in my head than 10 minutes of going through the slides.
I spend lots of time on wikipedia, and other such sites. Yes, it's probably more entertainment than anything else, but somehow I think it's almost worthwhile. Maybe I'm terribly wrong.
I watch a movie almost every day. Now this is entertainment by definition, but I try to select nice titles. My latest acquaintances are Andrei Tarkovsky and Masaki Kobayashi.
Open-source software
Just a few months ago, I spent up to 16 hours a day going through different open-source routines
It was necessary, so that I could see for myself how other people may spend their time in a suboptimal way
I kind of settled my mind to focus on automation for now
My current rule is this:
If you can do something manually, but you can also automate it, don't do it until you automate it
If you can't automate it, don't do it at all, until you can
I'm mostly stuck in the latter state
I still maintain many FreeBSD ports, but most of them are either inactive or very simple, so it doesn't take much time at all
I'm daydreaming about many nice open-source things, but my current skill level doesn't allow me to implement them in a limited amount of time, they remain daydreams mostly.
I believe my skill level is rising slowly, but I don't make plans, so there are no dates and datelines with some accomplishments attached to them.
Spiritual
This area is never easy to describe in mere words
Those lectures on non-violence are producing a nice effect on me
It's funny how I call myself a Christian, but have never read the Bible. I read some abridged version for kids, but that was a lifetime ago
So now I read a few pages a day from King James Version. Even though I don't understand much of its vocabulary, it makes a great reading. I really think it's an important book to read even for staunch atheists. Most of them probably don't read it out of prejudice.
I could write many pages about the current state of my inner world, but I'll just say that at the moment I'm happily unrestful.
Society
As a (somewhat active) member of the open-source community, I communicate a lot, mostly via e-mail
Apart from that, I may well be considered a socipathic, reclusive geek
Just yesterday I considered joining toastmasters or something, just to maintain the basic skill of human speech