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       Stardate: 20200218.0836
       Location: SBUX
       Input Device: Gemini PDA
       Audio: Brainwave app set to Morning Meditation
       Visual: Shared SBUX table, baristas, fellow coffee consumers
       Energy: 60%
       Mental: 50% +getting there with morning coffee
       Emotional: meh, need moar downtime
       
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       I decided to level up my self-care and take a mental health day to 
       chill the fuck out.  I would have preferred to have slept in but I 
       still had to transport the child processes to their centers of 
       learning and conditioning.  Oh well.  Perhaps I will take a nap later
       or do some meditation to reclaim some mind space.
       
       It puzzles me how at this point in my life, time seems to have warped
       or distorted...well, at least my perception of it.  There seems to be
       too much going on and not enough time to process it all.  With the
       way I spend my time exposing myself to different things, consuming
       various distactions, being bombarded by so much information even un-
       intentionally, it is no wonder why I have gotten to this point.
       
       Wouldn't it be interesting if humans could have some kind of 
       distributed mental resource sharing, kind of like how the nodes
       on a cluster share resources to process the data?  Become moar human
       than human...become ubermensch.  A collective mind.  A hive 
       mentality.  Sounds like the Borg.  OK, I don't think I need that.  
       It would be fun to interface with Seven of Nine, though.
       
       Well, I think I just need to take a more active role in my exposure
       to  things.  Lately, I have just been going along for the ride and 
       taking things as they come, just being swept up in the currents of
       life.  I think I need to go ashore, fix up my boat, recalibrate the
       navigation system, and change course to calmer waters.
       
       There is a pattern developing here.  I think I saw this before when
       I started spending more time in gopherspace.  When things were
       getting a bit much and I needed to throttle my downloads.  When
       life was becoming unmanageable.  There is not too much unmanageabi-
       lity these days, as far as meatspace goes, but my wetware desires 
       for moar signal, less noise...and moar buffer and moar time for 
       processing.
       
       So I am taking today to regroup.  Cut the fat and refocus.  Refine
       my modus operandi and discard the non-essentials.  More importantly,
       I need to get it out of my head and put it on paper.  I seem to work
       better when my thoughts are not free-floating in the wetware.  I am
       tasking myself with 15 minutes of analog mind mapping and see where
       it goes from there.  I know that with me, I just need to make a 
       small, simple start to get this going.  Oh, and I will also just sit.
       
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