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Please Remember the Cost of Social Isolation

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Parent Category: Thoughts
Category: Musings & Observations
Published: 19 April 2021
Last Updated: 14 September 2026
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How has this past year been for you? Stressful? Lonely? Maybe a bit of hopelessness?
Now that the vaccines are being distributed, are you feeling a bit more optimistic?
It has been over a year since our society went home to our bubbles of isolation but for people with disabilities or other limiting factors, the pandemic was just more of the same.

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You people are Crazy!

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Parent Category: Thoughts
Category: Musings & Observations
Published: 16 March 2020
Last Updated: 14 September 2026
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I went to Walmart yesterday...

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33 Days post Facebook and all is very well!

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Parent Category: Thoughts
Category: Musings & Observations
Published: 03 February 2019
Last Updated: 14 September 2026
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January 1st at 12:01AM I went through the process of deleting my Facebook account. It's pretty straightforward and easy but FB gives you a 30 day cooling off period in case you didn't really mean it and decide to go back. They are hoping that during this withdrawal period, you'll get too fidgety and will come back to get your dopamine hit. I made it though - 33 days and counting!

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Goals, Projects and Failure

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Parent Category: Thoughts
Category: Musings & Observations
Published: 02 January 2013
Last Updated: 14 September 2026
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It is amazing how easy it is to get sidetracked on a goal or project. Sometimes the cause is small, for example needing to run an errand during your normal workout time. Then the next day rolls around and the "need" to run more errands in that same stretch of time becomes easier to justify. Finally, that time somehow switched from workout time to errand time.

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