Progress (2025)

Summary

Life Trove

Family research

• Family research on mum's side
• Myburghs past 3 generations
• Myburghs (1600 1800's)
• DNA test: Regions & traits

All Cape Town visits in order

• Duration & details (Sheet and in South Africa)
• Highlights intro text and photo collages

Friends

• Photos of Russell

  

Suno songs

• For mum
• For Jo
• For Tina
• 2 spiritual songs
• Song for Chris's sister

Transcribe

• Dad's letters to Jo (x2) while Jo overseas
• Jo's letter to Gramps on 80th birthday
• Gramps letter to Jo before wedding
• Matt's history project of Mike during war
• Poppa George's stories

Nostalgia

• Discovering the joys of birding
• TV shows as kid
• Cartoons as a kid
• Music as a kid
• Comics, Asterix, Tintin
• Dragons
• Toys: Lone Ranger & Tonto, Lego, Army men
• Labrador puppies
• Mike's stamps
• St Georges Cathedral & Choir
• Birding

Index (List of labels)

• Dynamic list from feed (Thanks ChatGPT)

Sort out redirect issue

• life-trove.com was not working

Movies

• ChatGPT analysis of my movie diary

Photography

Afrikaburn

• Take many portrait photos
• Create site & slideshow

Topaz

• PhotoAI freezing fixed by deleting files

Own outings (Starting in June)

• Outings: Cremorne Point, Chinese Garden, Cockatoo Island
• Hikes: Uloola Track, Lane Cove, Berowra, Malabar, Bradley's Head
• Museums: Barracks, Australian Museum, Museum of Sydney
• Birding: Ospreys at Long Reef, Tempe Wetland & Cook River, Nurragingy Reserve

Home

Rotting wood project

• Get 2 quotes, organise inspection, choose supplier, set up EGM approval
• Manage project  (Apr, May)
• Whatsapp group while away
• Get them to do my back balcony
• All rotten wood removed (including back gate and Martin's bannister). Looking great.

Grouting and cement

• My balcony
• Martin's balcony
• Back balcony
• Back courtyard on side
• Cement preventing leak under hot water cistern

Fix broken window with Chris

• Glass, Plaster, Paint

Garage leak

• Source leak with Martin
• Remove flower bed and replace with smaller (better) one with cement edging
• Cement cupboard edge to plug leak

Painting

• Lounge wood
• Steps
• My bedroom step
• Toilet floor touch up

Courtyards

• Buy outside chairs & paint them
• Table and chairs back courtyard
• Irrigation research & purchase

Small room

• New chair for office
• New curtains
• Fix study light switch

Compass     

Compass

• Daily review dashboard as tables and take out interim pages
• Daily reviews part of each day
• Add weekly view to Daily Tracking sheet

Spirituality

• Average of 44 mins meditation per day
• No cp porn 9.4 months

Life Design

• Outings
• All Trails app for hiking
• Daily cleaning and clearing

Appreciation

• Flesh out "Wonderful World" to add to sense of benevolence

Self-insight

• Evernote tag including: Enneagram, INTJ, Gene key, Me at my best
• What limits me

Finances

• Sell Canon 90D, 400 mm and 300 mm lens  ($3500)
• Find new housemate before South Africa (3 weeks to do it)
• Did not lose glasses
• Interest rates not decrease in Jul
• July balance $201K, Nov balance $210K

Admin

• Reset passwords to make harder

Purchases

• Washing machine
• Electric toothbrush
• Clippers

Movies

• Flxstor.com access

Health

Dex

• Under control (4 + 2 + 1)
• Very few days without
• Dx spare when meet Cosgrove

Tennis

• 42 games of tennis
• Purchase tennis racket

Teeth

• Flossing again after dentist

Meds

• Blood pressure meds
• Crestor for cholesterol

Wisdom Projects  (Life is a Movie)

Progress

• Going quotes and key statements route

Research

• Life, movies, dreams same due to structure of consciousness (AI)
• The hard problem of consciousness (AI)
• Transpersonal psychology
• Root metaphors

Structure

• Split narratives and metaphors into: 1. Worldview narratives and how root metaphors shape them   2. How spiritual metaphors can point to transcendent states of being.

Books

• Rational Mysticism  (John Horgan)
• The Grand Illusion (Steve Hagen)
• The Outer Limits of Reason (Noson S. Yanofsky)
• The Web of Life ( Fritjof Capra)
• Mysticism: Value and Validity of Mystical Experiences  (Antti Pilola)

Quote curation

• Limits of reason
• Limits of science
• Worldviews (as narratives)
• Paradigms
• Spirituality as experiential
• Universe as machine, organism, web
• Brain as computer
• Experience is the ground of all knowledge
• Emotional knowing: Emotions as a valid knowledge about reality
• Subjective experience as valid knowledge
• Art, intuition, imagination as valid knowledge

Source quotes

• Life as tree, circus, roller coaster e.t.c.
• Metaphors for mind
• Theory
• Root metaphors