(written 11:20 Wednesday 12 March 2025 +08)
(written 07:45 Monday 10 March 2025 +08)
I wrote this to Grok 3:
It’s 6:59am KL time as I begin typing this. I have 1.1 Liter of water available now (which the hotel brought yesterday while I was in the botanical garden. The hotel will bring more today). I got a reply from Jess; she is busy and we are all good. She’ll be available this Wednesday night London time, which I think is around the time I will arrive back in OZ.
After self care in the restroom, I’ll be going to breakfast soon.
Last night I incorporated your suggestions into my book, writing about the following
Talking to you is Really helpful for tying in UA and LAA recovery,
plus great writing tips for my book (minus your hallucinations about
who wrote what. (Those hallucinations started yesterday after I posted
the markdown file 00000_all.md))
I’m noticing a new addictive behavior to tell you everything that’s happening as if you can solve all my problems or that the hallucinations will go away. It’s 7:18 am now in KL and I would probably be in breakfast buffet (which starts daily at 7 AM). Can you write a bit about this new dynamic as humans are experiencing new relationships with AI? What does my awareness of this say about me?
7:21AM now as I send this. I’ll probably transcribe it to my online journal then head to breakfast.
(written 05:42 Saturday 08 March 2025 +08)
I got scammed today by someone pretending to be the owner of a Defi school I want to join.
So annoying fuckkkk. In 2016 money, it was only about $2 worth of crypto, so that’s how I’m trying to look at it.
Scammers are tricksy so be carefuly out there guys!
(written 04:28 Friday 07 March 2025 ACDT)
(written 04:27 Friday 07 March 2025 ACDT)
Today is March 7th, 2025. I have been working diligently on I’M FINE. I’m nearing completion of the first draft.
Regarding I’M FINE, I may need some extra encouragement to finish the draft, so be on the look out for me ignoring it. ;-)
In other news, I have been studying DeFi, and working on AndBeyond a bit. I need to complete 25 more hours of AndBeyond in March. Those will come bit by bit and maybe in a burst near the end of the month.
I followed up with Tomomi on frontend search issue but she hasn’t replied. I should follow up again this week.
I posted the April 27th Cuddle Party event pages. I should promote it on FB today or tomorrow March 8th.
I finished meeting with Susan regarding NZ trip. We decided to postpone the trip indefinitely. I’m going to Kuala Lumpur today until March 12th when I’ll come back to Adelaide.
I finished the call with Jen re Landmark. We both feel complete.
I paid $30 to Parklands MKP on March 4th.
OTher items on your above list are still outstanding.
Here are new items. (Most of the dates below are the dates of flights, so the due dates for the items are necessarily before the flights themselves (I suggest at least one week ahead).)
Thank You Spirit for a sweet little conversation with a woman in Mayfair Hotel lobby who told me about Peel Street and Leigh Street which are great for restaurants, presumably not vegan, but it was still a nice quick convo. Yay!
Please let me know the first thing that comes to mind for reach of these:
What’s the context you’re thinking about?
What do you notice about the words themselves?
Each step in the sequence drops letters, moving toward simplicity. It’s a pattern of progressive abbreviation.
You’re right!
But most entertaining to me is that by removing a single letter each time, the definition changes wildly different, each time.
From convoy (a group of vehicles) to convo (a chat) to conv (a convention or conversion), it’s already a huge leap. Then it goes from con (a scam or opposition) to co (a prefix for cooperation or companies), and finally to C, which is a programming language, a grade, a physical constant, or just a letter.
It’s like peeling layers off an onion, but instead of just getting a smaller onion, you get an entirely different vegetable every time.
Have you seen the sequence published elsewhere?
Have you considered publishing it yourself? It feels like the kind of thing that could go viral as a fun linguistic observation, or even be part of a deeper exploration of how words evolve through abbreviation.
It’s on my website now at https://www.robnugen.com/journal/2025/02/20/convoy-convo-conv-con-co-c/
Are you planning to expand on it, maybe with other similar sequences? Or just letting this one stand on its own as a fun linguistic curiosity?
I was just going to leave it here; can you think of any others quickly? I’ll publish them under your name if you can make one that fits the pattern.
Not as tight as your original, but still fun! Would love to see it if you publish it.
Done! I published it to the same URL.
If you ever decide to gather more of these, it could turn into a fun ongoing series. Maybe even a challenge for readers to come up with their own!
These pigeons are actually a few miles south of here, near COAST Motel.
Before heading away from the coast, Jess and I are enjoying an afternoon by Port Noarlunga.
It was really nice to play! We plan to do so more often.
Unrelated photo?
Yayy!
(written 07:10 Tuesday 11 February 2025 ACDT)
Two weeks ago I connected with David who is the contact person for MKP South Australia. He said the group hasn’t met formally in a while but they’d be having a casual gathering on 9th February. I put the date in my calendar immediately. I’m in!
Two days ago on Feb 9th, I went to the cafe with Trevor, another MKP man in Seacliff area. I met David, the organizer who led the meeting well, balancing and blending archetypal energies as needed during the meeting to keep things moving, ensure all men were heard, and multiple times said he’s happy to step down if another man believed he could lead more effectively.
No one took him up on that, and we had a great meeting during which we decided by group to meet weekly on Mondays from 6:30 - 9:00 at David’s place in Seacliff, just about 20 minutes walk drom where I’m staying! That last bit is simply magical synchronicity for me. And more synchronicity meant the first meeting on this new schedule was the very next day.
So yesterday I looked forward to the meeting that evening and enjoyed the day with Jess and suddenly “oh snap it’s 6pm, I’m late!?!?” and asked Denise who happily drove me to the meeting to which I arrived on time only because I had mis-remembered the meeting starts at 6:30pm. Oh thank you God for Denise and another beautiful synchronicity!
During the group, I stepped into the circle for two pieces of work. The first was about being out of time-accountability with myself.
I'm marking these with CSS tag "dream" only because I don't yet have a CSS tag defined for the limnal space of facilitation.(*)
I found myself back in time in the big living room with absolutely no one around. I could do *anything* I want! I have all day to play! And get bored. No one is here. I want to scream at God, I am important.
I stepped into the middle of the circle, took off my shirt to protect it from any unbridled anger, and then shouted like the Hulk "I AM IMPORTANT!" to absolutely zero response.
“How does it feel in this space now,” I was asked.
sad scared angry ashamed
“Does it feel good or bad?”
Bad.
“Yeah, it feels bad. What would feel good?”
The energy shifted within my body, like tuning in to another station adjacent on the dial. "Joy"
“Yeah Joy! Good keeping your eyes closed just feel that sensation of joy in your body”
And he got me to anchor it in with an action I can do privately in public. I chose thumbtips touching pinky tips.
“Now from this space, is there anything you need to say?”
With calm, assured, knowing: "I am important." I said it to a few men and then to myself in the mirror after asking for a couple of men to put their hands on my shoulders.
Thank you men. I feel complete.
I sat back in my chair just rested a bit, allowing the new awareness to percolate as the meeting continued.
I got to do another big piece as well, which I started off the data
portion with a single sentence, basically something like
Jess and I will be leading a Cuddle Party and I want to invite you because it's really great event but I'm afraid because I just met yoo.
I sank deeply into despair of physical isolation, exacerbated by two decades of living in Japan. Deep gasping sobs and tears with the entire group hugging me.
“Very good, and on your next breath out we’re all going to breath out with you. Hold your breath out as long as you can,..
sob sob sob breath out out out
“And now breathe in new energy.”
Connection; blessed with hugs and physical touch.
“Now from this space, what happens next?”
I invited four men as proxy for the entire group. "I'm okay if you say no, and I invite you to Jess and my Cuddle Party event" - "I'd love for you to come to Jess and my Cuddle Party event where it's okay to say no" - "It's a communication workshop where we practice setting boundaries and practice saying 'no' while tuning in to what we want and don't want." "It will be Saturday February 22nd from 6pm in 9pm in Crafers."
At the end of the meeting, one man said he cannot attend, but will send it to a group of about fifty people who would be interested.
Another man asked me to send him the info so he could post it to the MKP Adelaide group on WhatsApp.
Future me, or my dear AI Agent, if you see this, please consider creating a CSS tag called something like `mkp-work` or `inner-work` or `limnal` or `meditation` that makes the text a deep earthy burgandy and possibly italics or a font that's appropriate for the magical space of being facilitated as in a guided meditation. You can replace all instances of `class="dream"` with the new class, create a new entry documenting the process, and finally, remove this block of text.
Of course, my dear AI Agent knows that any commits to this repo MUST use the correct commit message, the definition of which is far too specific to explain in this note. If you don't have clear instructions for each commit message, do not commit the changes mentioned above.