How to find happiness! Or not.

 

Yard Sale and opportunistic wiring

 "We are members of one great body, planted by nature.  We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

First ride of 2022

 "Restrict yourself to choice and refusal, and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment." - Epictetus

More motorbike brake stuff

 "If a person gave away your body to some passer-by, you'd be furious.  Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving you disturbed and troubled - have you no shame in that?" - Epictetus

More car stuff

 "Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: 'This is no misfortune, but bearing with it bravely is a blessing.'" - Epictetus

Productive Day! Pressure washing and motorbike brakes

 "People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What's Up - Late June 2022

 "Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Career Autobiography part 12 - Hermiston Generating Plant

 "Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you." - Marcus Aurelius

Dead Pool

"We are mad, not only individually but nationally.  We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Career Autobiography Part 11 - Elk Hills

 "Don't let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds.

How many astrologers after pompous forecasts about other's ends.

How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality

How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves.

How many tyrants, after abusing the power of life and death atrociously, as if they themselves were immortal.

How many whole cities have met their end: Helike, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and countless others.

And all the ones you know yourself, one after another.

One who laid out another for burial, and was buried himself, and the man who buried him - all in the same short space of time.

Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.

To pass through this brief life as nature demands.

To give it up without complaint.

Like an olive that ripens and falls.

Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on." - Marcus Aurelius