From blogosphere into vlogging and beyond. Future is unimaginably rich and extraordinary. 5 more years, 10 more years.

I've started a personal video blog on Snapchat and Instagram. Find me @Mr.Dzmitry
How things are evolving, huh? I've always been documenting my live, either through actualy pen-and-paper journals, or blogs, or future.me emails. Now it's all on my phone.
I had my new Mogo G4plus for 10 days now, since Sept. 8th 2016. Today is Sept. 18th and I'm getting married in a week. Seven days and I'm a husband. How about that for a transition :)

When books aren't available to read, writing occurs.

The tail of how we moved all of our crap from one apartment to another in two days begins with a heat wave. Both days, the temperatures outside reached 95-100F during the afternoon. Precisely when we had to lift and toss and such. Because we are smart raccoons, packing few days prior was essential to our success.
To relive those moments, I remember the good times: the AC in the truck we rented, constant lemon water, great company, small victories and some such. Nothing is perfect, but overall, I think the situation has improved. Moving may be stressful but getting that Indian take out you've been eyeing for months is a phenomenal reward. Planning. Always works, sometimes.
Living quarters have them french doors between our bedroom and living room, and so I believe I have officially moved into the fancied of places.
The lightning speed with which we moved proved crucial to the butter - it melted not! Thus I believe short distances between coolers and freezers, and trucks and fridges to be the best combination of butter saving techniques. Or, you can also freeze it. Damn right.
I have improved kitchen by displaying our mini wine rack, so it will likely be that we might consume more wine than we had prior months. I shall be okay with that.
Boxes bio====banana boxes. Terrific way to quickly grab some free packing supplies. I think the whole string of successes that we learned from BPT-PDX, and since, made it virtually pain free. Except worry. And Distress. Dissatisfaction. So, mostly emotional pain. Physical pain came the two days following, reminded muscles. Curcumin/Turmeric for the victory over inflammation.

Another month - another life.
Another excitement.
All the breaks and interruptions are worth it.

Left handed practice

I have decided to willfully enhance my handwriting with my left hand and I am planning on doing so by writing out lines of letter like children do back in early days of schooling. I have had decades of practice with right hand scrachings but now I am interested in identity, ability, and brain hemispheres. Maybe in that order too.

What's more important than that?

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Books + Cooking = exciting life.

What am I having for food/snack right now:

Homemade Spicy raw Dip:
2 avocadoes
1 shallot
7 clovers garlic (love that shit)
little bits of poblano pepper
olive oil, S/P, celery seeds, sumak, thyme, galangal, cumin, splash of white balsamic, lemon juice
All chopped mixed together and let sit for few hours in the fridge.
Consuming on crackers or with a spoon. Raw and exciting!

2nd course:
Homemade spicy kraut-chi (which was fermented for 4 days)
cabbage
onion
ginger
garlic
apple
jalapeno
tiny bit of habanero chile (made everything crazy spicy)
mustard seeds, salt, peppercorns,
All chopped up, smashed, stuffed in jar and covered with brine.
Excellent spice kick.

Homemade Desert beverage:
2 week fermented fresh apple cider from apples, pears, peaches. Probably 3-5% alch. Tasty, fruity and fresh.
So much live bacteria!!!

Selective Environment

My younger self accepted all and took all that was handed to me. I was a kid, after all and that is how kids function. School I went to was the closest, both in Belarus and in Connecticut. Friends were neighbors who lived at the same apartment building or people I shared classroom and lunch tables. As I moved into another state during college things became more vivid and selective. Should I go to party "A" or "B"? Decisions became a lot more complex because I was somewhat enough of an adult to start seeing some consequences. My encounters were still proximity based but I was at least aware of this fact.
Today, I live in a place I deliberately chose, with a person I am fully invested in my life. I work at a place and do things more consciously. This is also the reason I do not automatically accept friend requests from one-time encounters. My interactions, and absence of them, are becoming more important. I have no need to cross off 100 things of my list of things to do. Instead, I try to focus on a handful of check-boxes that matter to me. It is a work in progress.

Some People have ideas

Other people think re-hashing ideas is equivalent to their own original ideas. Come on. Being the top 20 most popular costumes on Halloween is nothing original. Please, exercise a little more conscious choice than buying a whole costume that you wear on your naked body one-layer clothing.

Stop copy-pasting. All I strive to do is be original few times a month or a week. It is not harder than being ordinary, I just have to try. 

But I need to quickly remind myself that creativity is not everyone else's priority.Reality is. That is something I need more practice with, no matter how many excellent non-fiction books I've read 

Custom

Typical tradition and novel uniqueness are both custom. There are few words that mean two opposite things in the English dictionary. Another one is seed, which is meant both to spread the seed on the field as well as to extract the seed from a food source. The more concrete question is whether these blog entries are for the author or for others. While it will always be beneficial for me to return to these entries decades later, is it any worth for others to check out these rough drafts? Why am I writing these? Self indulgence? It seems so, since the content is non-existent here. I do enjoy writing a little bit each day, so maybe I am training myself to do just that. I also love how short the entrances are.

I will keep writing and, perhaps, will eventually come up with some stable reasoning behind this action.

Downhill Chills

Satisfaction is excellent, but detrimental. If I am satisfied with a piece of work or a schedule write-in, I simply move on to the next venture. Or do I not move on and, instead, enjoy what ever is in front of me? Does satisfaction depend on personal needs? I would like to think that external factors are of the lesser movers, but are they? Since I am part of the society, part of the whole, who is the primary mover? Chance, emotion, environment, early development, culture, certain reality.  

Go Deep

Most of the time, we scratch the surface of whatever topic or concept we are interested in. However, every once in a while, we go in full speed ahead, clawing through and pushing ourselves over the edge, pursuing something more meaningful, somethings larger. What's the reason? How is it that some people and some topics have enough motivation and courage to figure things out in more detail?

Unrelated song

Internal Dialogue

Much like certain body parts, everyone has that voice inside them that navigates the perception of both the self and others around. Our large brains are extremely sophisticated machines; best ones yet on this planet. Wish someone told me how to use mine, instead of relying on instincts, technicalities and intellectual excuses. Humans are "feeling machines", doing only things they feel like, even if a thought is the primary driver of action.

But there are shortcuts. I can learn and alter my environment, but I always have to have a conversation with my inner self. Even as I type this, I am constantly running ideas through, changing, editing. Editing. Editing, as if it matters which conjunction I use or in which order the words are banged out.