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 It's a good thing I took so many of these pics. I don't know whether I will have anything with a holiday ambience or not. Happy holidays works for me. I'm not sure where I could go to get a dose of that holiday stuff. 

I'd certainly like to avoid anyplace where there are lots of people! Of course, I always do that. Where there are lots of people, there are lots of annoyances and irritations, and maybe even craziness. Who needs that?

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 I guess I've decided that lots of things are really not worth caring about. I'm keeping it all close to home. And if not close to home, then so abstract as to be purely escapist, and very remote from ordinary life. Cuts down on the stress.

I sure do like to read! You can't go wrong with a BOOK. Printed words on a page. Ah.

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 I can't quite get through the winter with this, but I think I can get into the early stages before I run out of sunflowers. Sooner or later I'll have some Lubbock funky alleys again. Some piles of trash and interesting junk and other stuff like that. Temps fairly mild today and the next few days but cloudy. No rain, of course. 

I completed a bit of simplification today, finally. The process turned out to me more complicated than I thought it would be, but it's done. Briefly, I cancelled one of my credit cards. This simplifies financial record keeping. I never carry a balance but I didn't like the website on this one. They made it very hard to see all the charges in a billing cycle, and that made it hard to check for unauthorized charges. Plus, they switched my billing preferences without my knowledge or approval. And their customer service was poor. Reason enough to drop it.

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 Somewhat cool and breezy this morning! Plenty of sunshine, though.

I kind of struggle with meeting nutritional requirements for the weight training I do, because I just never have an appetite. It's been like that for many years. I eat because I must, and rarely because I am actually hungry. I recall, as a child, regarding meals as an ordeal I had to get through. Sometimes I've got a kind of craving for some particular thing, like pizza, or a cheeseburger and fries, or a monster omelet, but that doesn't happen very often. Protein shakes are essential for me. They fill the void. They are easily and quickly consumed, and that's that. Eating is pretty gross when you think about it. I try not to.

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 Same story: a nice day on tap but another free beer seems unlikely. And that's OK! I have lots of wine.

I have been thinking about ways to simplify my life even more. Sometimes less really is more. Less complication equates to a better life, I think.