Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • DIARY The joy of helping others. Stopped at a local restaurant for lunch. Lovely

    DIARY
    The joy of helping others.
    Stopped at a local restaurant for lunch. Lovely woman walked in and sat a few chairs away. I said hi. Asked her why she seemed a bit frazzled. Kid stuff. Usual. Then health stuff. Was able to help her over the span of twenty minutes. Thanked each other. Went to pick up her daughter from a soccer competition.
    Always makes me happy to help people. Even if it’s just looking for a reason to compliment them.
    I grew up in a small town.
    Small town culture is a good thing. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2024-06-24 22:04:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1805361381644156928

  • (health update) Well, pulmonologist: “Your lungs are basically covered with scar

    (health update)
    Well, pulmonologist: “Your lungs are basically covered with scar tissue from repeated long term pneumonia and whatever else happened to you, so you only have 2/3 of lung capacity.” Well, that means marathons (both in and out of the bedroom) are apparently off the…

    Source date (UTC): 2024-06-07 17:59:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1799139107446096267

  • (Diary, Humor) Have you ever had a message from a high school girl (now woman) t

    (Diary, Humor)
    Have you ever had a message from a high school girl (now woman) that you only vaguely remember, and who never (at least clearly) demonstrated any interest?
    I mean, I consider myself a nerd with just enough luck to win enough of the attractiveness lottery, and had been taught good manners, that girls paid me any attention at all.
    So when you see terms like ‘crush worthy’, ‘dreamy’, ‘funny’, you ask yourself “I know I was clueless, but I considered myself a nerd, an aspie, and was lucky I had the girlfriends I did have. So how could I be that oblivious to girls who were interested?”
    I mean, I could have married at least four of the girls I went to school with, one who was a neighbor who would sneak out of her house to visit me with regularity – and I know at least those girls would have been happy to do so. Partly because a few years later they said so.
    But… cluelessness is what it is.
    Honestly, all I ever thought of at that age was ‘getting out of small town America, college, business, money, power’. Of course, I was obsessed, usually physically, with the girls I was interested in. But I wasn’t thinking of marriage material. Just the opposite. My mother was relentless in that ‘girls will try to trap you and then your life is over’.
    Now, oddly enough three of those women have died, and none of them have had anything near the quality of life that I have. And some part of me feels guilty for that. Which I know is odd. I have the weird predilection that everything I know of is my responsibility. 😉
    So, can we get a do-over with life? lol. I mean it’s kind of unfair that it takes you to almost fifty before you understand the world well enough to know what you could have done better. 😉
    Hey, God? Are you listening?
    Do-overs for everyone around the table?

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-30 17:07:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1796227063558385664

  • (diary) Going to bed. I’m able to work until late hours again, thankfully. I’ve

    (diary)
    Going to bed.
    I’m able to work until late hours again, thankfully.
    I’ve been working on a presentation that explains the anglo invention of the modern state, and the founder’s invention of our government in rigorous terms that haven’t been explained before.
    And i”m starting as usual with the origins of western civilization and why our foundations have persisted so long without being canonized in formal terms – at least, before the founders tried to.
    I’ve still got two or three more presentations to get done in the next two weeks or so.
    All this means is that assuming I can stay this healthy and with this level of stress, I should be able to get the work done this year we are trying to.
    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-29 06:36:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1795705723323564032

  • (Diary Nonsense) When you feel like you’ve worked enough for the day, and that y

    (Diary Nonsense)
    When you feel like you’ve worked enough for the day, and that you’re just too tired to continue, do you also feel this strange need to ask someone permission to stop so that you can do something that doesn’t tax your brain? 😉
    It’s wierd. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-27 21:55:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1795212159686771112

  • Advice is to go thru my feed and 1) remove all the trash talking back to nitwits

    Advice is to go thru my feed and 1) remove all the trash talking back to nitwits that offend me and that I shouldn’t respond to anyway 2) but how can I possibly remove all the ‘offensive’ content I produce on the cause of the present era’s crisis? Especially given you know who is…

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-26 02:11:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1794551991449882635

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1794551647294673239

  • (Diary) Last night, tired, because I CAN work late now, I wanted to give up soci

    (Diary)
    Last night, tired, because I CAN work late now, I wanted to give up social media again, and even activism, and instead, just work in as much a solitary capacity as possible, with the few people that can help, because social media, aside from the few intellectually honest people who seek to understand one another, is not good for one’s work, mind, or spirit.

    I could see value if if there were curated or filtered news channels here, say for academic research, for war news, for political news, for disaster news, and especially, breaking news, even though twitter’s ability to produce news synthesis is better than most networks and publications. I’m just as well off watching the Reuters news stream. Because there is no regulation on the spam coming out of any news organization.

    Also, when I was very ill it didn’t matter that I spent time answering questions or teaching ideas on social media, because I wasn’t capable of working in deep concentration for long enough periods of time to to much serious work. Or I needed to take many breaks to recover.

    But I’m sorta over that. And it’s changing my priorities accordingly.

    Why am I telling you this.
    All good executives set expectations.
    Especially executives who build consulting companies.;)
    And in setting expectations the feedback sometimes convinces you to alter your expectations – a bit. 😉

    Hugs
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-25 23:00:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1794503788679589888

  • We were having a blast. I met with them before and after I was sweating like a p

    We were having a blast. I met with them before and after I was sweating like a pig in the 105 degree heat, and wearing ‘artillery’ around my waist. I couldn’t even comprehend why you’d criticize us. Because I cant imagine being that stupid.
    So you failed the IQ test. We showed how to defeat the left – “Don’t take the bait”. And you mouth-breathers didn’t learn. ;). Which is why we gave up on you.
    It’s why everyone gives up on you. I work every day to distance ourselves from you despite that we did try to make you into a politically valuable movement.
    Everyone fails. And now, both the right, center, and the left want you basement dwelling, dark triad personality, incel losers to die off as the last generation of your ilk. And it’s happening. (thankfully).

    Reply addressees: @sacrifice31605 @WalterIII

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-22 17:28:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1793333038278938624

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1793313004232007853

  • (Diary) Listening to Anna report the war news today, and hearing her voice, and

    (Diary)
    Listening to Anna report the war news today, and hearing her voice, and the rather dry way Ukrainians express humor – and I miss Ukraine. Really I miss it every day.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-17 20:08:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1791561415637049404

  • (off topic rumination) I’m actually angry still that Cobain and Bennington commi

    (off topic rumination)
    I’m actually angry still that Cobain and Bennington committed suicide. Now I know it may. not make sense to you, but I’m trained in the arts, theory and history, and view great artists possessed of talent, maturing it, developing excellences in it, as having an sort of moral obligation to produce emotional goods for mankind just as scientists, engineers, technologists, biologists seek to produce goods for mankind – except their obligation is greater because they are rarer.

    But look at this list since Cobain?
    Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) – 1994
    Michael Hutchence (INXS) – 1997
    Brad Delp (Boston) – 2007
    Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) – 2017
    Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) – 2017
    Keith Flint (The Prodigy) – 2019
    Avicii (Tim Bergling) – 2018

    Well, we know that actors and acting both attract and create mental health issues. We know that music can attract marginal cases, but that the alcohol and drugs, combined with the stress, rise-and-fall, and loneliness in particular of anyone who seeks to escape ‘non-real’ attention in favor of those who share their experiences and conditions, all push people over the top.

    I’ve felt for a long time that ordinary people with windfalls should be protected both from themselves, and from ‘predatory’ financial managers and lawyers. But It appears that this also applies to themselves when it comes to mental health.

    I mean, she’s harmless, but since the little blonde musician I won’t name was released from her father’s ‘protection’, she hasn’t exactly demonstrated her father’s objection that she’s not mentally healthy enough to manager herself, her assets, her affairs, her reputation and brand.

    Most of us need someone who loves us to insure we don’t go off the rails – which is yet another example of the dissolution of the family and the excessive emphasis on individual freedom and hyperconsumption.

    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-15 18:50:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1790817074945699843