Daily Journal

Daily Journal - 9 Jun 2024 (Sunday)

John M Poltrack

09 Jun 2024 — 2 min read

This is the daily journal entry for the 9th day of June in 2024. The Daily Picture Theme is #Barrel. The featured photo is the trash barrel at the Art Car Museum in Houston Texas.

“I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.”

– Tim Ferriss

Rainy Start

Cool and wet morning today. Last night I dreamed that I was in trouble for missing a number of days at work. In the dream it dawned on me that I was retired and didn't need to be there. Most unpleasant dream. I woke up feeling tired. Thankfully the day improved after that.

Clutter

Supposedly a cluttered desk is a sign of intelligence. I must be a genius, but I couldn't find the three holed punch for song sheets and the extra camera battery. Even worse was I discovered a bill from April that i did not pay. I also spend the morning peeling off magnets from the refrigerator in preparation for its replacement. Some of the magnets had melded into the door glued with food residue. I need to be a bit more judicious in which ones I put on the new refrigerator.

Temple Town Hall Music Jam

It is always a treat to play tunes at the Temple Town Hall. One of the photos I took of Peggy with her buddies had a distracting person in the foreground so for the first time I employed an AI tool to "remove" him. It did a decent job but introduced a book written in the weird language that AI creates, Can you spot the photo?

Five Years Ago - June 9, 2019

My cousin Chris and his wife Lisa visited with my mother on June 8, 2019. On June 9th I played music at a church service in Gardner, MA. Chris and Lisa attended the service and afterwards we had a nice lunch at the Old Mill Restaurant in Westminster, MA. Lisa was a force of nature and I miss her, the photos only hint of her personality.