#NoNothingNovember: Day 4, Liberals Drove in Droves

Today like most others started with me going for a jog and some light core exercises (pushups, etc.) just to get the blood pumping. However, unlike most mornings I was a bit sluggish getting up today. Why, I can’t say. But after hitting my alarm clock on my phone I checked a text I received this morning that was a link to an interesting post about Swiss watches, and before I knew it I had wasted 15 minutes laying in bed flipping through articles. I gave myself a kick in the ass and had my pants on before my feet hit the floor.

Traffic wasn’t as bad today as I was leaving early, but I couldn’t say the same for my return. I’ve never wanted to punch so many people with Obama bumper stickers than today. Not because I’m anti-Obama, but I’m pro-driving skills. Henry Ford would be turning in his grave if he knew how many Prius driving idiots are congesting the road ways with transmissions as automatic as their smug sense of superiority. Even then, Ford would find a way to hook a generator to his casket to use his perpetual motion to increase the efficiency of his factory by 83%.

This is not that I have any delusions about how Ford feels in the manual/automatic argument, I just think that as an entrepreneur, businessman, and American icon thought of as the father of the Age of Automobiles, he might prefer that people know how to fucking drive.

How about some turn signals we can believe in? I saw so many Obama supported U-turns today you’d think I was heading to Guantanamo Bay.

Whether I’m pro Right Wing or not, it’s getting harder to believe that liberals have my best interests at heart when they’re dragging my mailbox down the street wedged in their fender.

Not that today was all bad, all things given. Whilst sitting at a light today on my way home I was hit with a sudden bit of inspiration for my story for #NaNoWriMo that cracked a plot issue I’ve been working on for a day or two. I also read some of A Benjamin Franklin Reader and got an excellent idea for my second post unrelated to #NoNothingNovember. I hope to have the first out by Thursday or at the latest Friday and it’s one I’ve thought about for awhile on a person I’ll likely revisit again in the future.

The biggest hit my schedule took today was that I cut my own reading time down to 30 minutes because at the time I felt more like reading a Manosphere blog post than the book I was holding. I made the decision to not force it and drain what was left of my willpower since I was trading a fiction novel for free information anyway. Positive aside, it still went against my goal so I’ll be docking points for it.

Another thing I noticed is that I’ve eaten noticeably less since cutting out junk-media like youtube or netflix. It used to be that when I wasn’t having dinner with anyone I would find something to watch and just mindlessly chew while zoning out. I was a cow for junk. Junk food and junk media. A few pringles while watching an episode of GoT adds up on your waistline and it has definitely shown. More than that though, I find myself reflecting more on the things I read. I’d read TRP sidebar and blogs before, but lately I find myself using my free time pondering what I read, internalizing it more, and it’s sticking a lot quicker than it used to. I’ve never been a slow man, but I can feel some of the sense of fog of the past month or two beginning to thin.

I still haven’t cut soda from my diet since I didn’t want to spread my fledgeling willpower too thin while trying to get out of a funk, but I am seriously thinking about adding that to the To Do next month. I know that just that dietary restriction along with the amount of exercising I’m doing now would start seeing my weight shrinking. I’m young enough that when I set an exercise plan I do see results. My genetics have left me an endomorph body and while it definitely piles on the pounds if I’m not careful, it’s also the body type I would choose if I could for greater musculature and strength. Herakles is made to be strong, not pretty after all. Lucky for us, they’re not mutually exclusive.

The biggest change I’ve noticed so far that I would consider a neutral is the sense of isolation. Before hand, I had spent more and more time outside of work alone anyway. I had a rule that plates spent the night no more than once per month, twice in extreme cases. While I’ve always been comfortable being isolated as I am in a center of a party, killing social media has also eliminated the minimal amount of socializing I have done during my rut. This brings two things in perspective. 1) I’ve thought about living in my cabin for extended periods of time in the past away from civilization and now I know that the sound of my own silence is something I could tolerate for a week or two at a time in between trips to town for supplies, and 2) Just how isolated I have been lately and how much that has contributed to my rut.

They say depression is a downward spiral and while I have no delusions about being depressed so much as I’ve just been stagnant lately, I do see how much I was depending on social media to keep me from going too long without socializing completely. Social media is like the Internet Porn version of real socialization. Easy, free, accessible in the comfort of your own home, and you can enjoy yourself butt naked without anyone else being any the wiser. Unfortunately, like actual porn, it’s hollow. Empty calories for man’s social nature. I think that after the month is over if I decide to get another Facebook I’ll definitely be limiting access to it for things like relatives’ and friends’ wedding/baby updates instead of using it as my primary means of being able to be contacted by friends who have moved away and mindlessly scrolling my News Feed when using the bathroom.

I think that, even more so when I found TRP and Manosphere blogs, I feel unplugged. I’ve always been a very RP Man, even back in high school and college-age dating. That was back when they just called you “old fashioned” if you were in the room, “sexist asshole” if you weren’t. I suppose that because of my ideology pre-RP my wake up wasn’t as harsh as it is for some of the guys because outside of having it confirmed that I wasn’t just bitter because other guys went through the same and thinking “Well, shit.” to myself, I never went through the Anger Phase. If I did, it wasn’t enough so that I talked about it. I’ve always been the kind of man who didn’t “cry over spilled milk.” It is what it is, whether I like it or not. So this feeling lately of being unplugged from the Social Mediatrix is kind of new. Not overly cutting or even uncomfortable, but I am aware of the fact my brain isn’t constantly being fed inane memes and attention whoring status updates.

I’ve definitely got quite a bit to think about today after everything and I’m definitely looking forward to what tomorrow brings. I’ll likely be cutting out Twitter/text replies to work more on my NaNoWriMo or my LoM blogpost that I’m hoping is up before the weekend.

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Even though I’ve tried to avoid it, I caught myself mindlessly scrolling today while laying in bed instead of getting up and getting moving and couldn’t stick to my novel reading for more than 30 minutes of what I allotted, so I’ll be deducting points for scheduling. Today is definitely the worst day by far for point values, even though I got the most story writing done. So days have ups and downs but my scores for today are

1) Foregoing of mindless media consumption. 5/10
2) Having a clear daily plan and deadline goals to meet. 7/10
3) Exercise and write everyday. Period. 10/10

Daily Total: 22/30
Yesterday’s Total: 29/30
Total To Date: 105.5/120