Seeker of Carcosa

Honestly, if it’s not worth the event of going out to see it, I’m not going to be enticed by the notion of marvel shit and live action reboots on tv.

Home movie time is for catching up with a century of good cinema e.g. we’ve recently watched Rashomon and Blade Runner.

I could only identify Chris Pratt in a line up. I struggle to differentiate between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Then again, I’ve only been to the cinema 6 times in the past decade. Any celebrity news sounds like “curtains for Zoosha” to me.

Some actually effective advice I gained from a support group following my diagnosis: link tasks to a goal that you actually care about.

You can’t do it for every single task but the important tasks can usually be linked.

Go to the gym because I want to be healthy: nope

Go to the gym because I need to live long enough to ensure my wife’s safety and financial security: average 3.5 sessions per week; lost 20kg in a year.

Do minor day to day tidying because it’s easier to keep on top of that: nothing

Wife has been away and I want her to enjoy coming home to a tidy house: deep clean.

Plan my home RPG session because I value time with friends: can’t be done

Plan my school club’s RPG sessions because I value my pupils having alternative creative and social opportunities: meticulous notes and setting documents.

One thing that I can’t figure out is reading, which I really love. I got quite a way with a 52 books in a year goal in 2021 but lost steam in the 30s. I ended up binging novellas and short story collections around Christmas to hit 54. As soon as I can justifiably link reading to my wife or pupils, I’ll be an unstoppable reading machine.

Do those communities just accept anyone in your area? In all the cities I’ve lived, you have to apply to these communities with a desired skill from a list; it’s necessary for filtering out people who think making lattes and doing tarot readings are key skills.