Videos, music, and some tasks

Berkeley, Sunday, August 9, 2026 3:17 am

It is too late.

Then, how to correct the normal week day schedule.

I still will think about the level of detail.

Regardless, I fulfilled about three tasks, might be four tasks today. Also, I cooked for tomorrow. Library is opens on a better schedule for me today. So I will consider going there.

It might fall asleep still in about 90 minutes more or so.

I had to do plenty of laundry, and on the third load, or rather I left few items to include a third load to a comfort bedding I received back a few months ago, but I haven’t washed yet. It is a back up piece.

Split the brain on listened music, while doing chores. I sort of discovered, at least by name, sorry to late for me, Lily Ally. She has a great song. It is a kind of ska punk, which is great.

Listened as well to Maneskin. The two points above the a, remind me that I usually do not recall by heart an American Polish ice cream, which I really like: Haagen-Dazs. I saw my neighbor carrying those. I should have given one the gifts I received a few days ago.

Glad that peace is here.

It is very stupid not to reach out to people who is against one, but the opportunity to have to occasions is many time the issue. Then, I always think that conflict is good for the sake of solving things. Meaning, it is much more pure to says what one thinks if sees something unfair. Of course, sometimes there is nothing else that receive, but then one is not the person who has something to say. The problem is that if there is something to say that we saw is wrong, or that we just do not like, not saying is wrong in most of the cases. I have one of those interactions today with a couple at a store, who jumped ahead of me, and made my waiting time at least 10 minutes longer or so. I expressed the frustration with the guy, and also with the worker who was not aware of the waiting. We accepted the terms. We ended up having a conversations, and cordial terms. It always also is in how things say things, but also people is able to evaluate right away intentions, and who is serious about things.

During the laundry time, I watched a bit of the performance of maneskin. I still need to build an opinion on them. Their song or cover Beggin’ is great.

I invested some minutes to learn that they won, sorry were finalist in an X Factor contest in Italy in 2017. Then they won the 2021 Eurosong. They were not in my radars. I probably stopped watching that stuff around that time. I recall I watched some videos late either 2017 or spring 2018 about music contest, i.e. The Voice. I learned a bit to that when I was back in Ecuador. I would say the living environment of the time, might have had an influence of watching a bit of those music talent contest, i.e. Yo me llamo, might be La Voz as well.

I do watch some tv at times, even if I fight against it. It has been good quiet times on that regard since probably late spring / summer 2024. But I might do a recount at time.

Other quiet stint was might be August 2018 until around Fall 2020. Well, some additional records might be in older posts. I will see how I manage history.

I will use the memory for accountability now. Or that is an excuse.

Then, I watched a bit of Boca Juniors. Enner Valencia, I think is going to play there for the next 18 months. I hope he get in, and I wish him the best. It seems to be a tough place, at least for what one can see in the media etc.

I checked also, and that might have earlier, a summary of Le Tour de France Femmes. Kasia, long last name, sorry, lost the Yellow Jersey, that she won yesterday in a great mount with V, which I can not recall now. Vollerin, might be is her last name is leading the race now.

I checked the standings of the spring race in moto gp.

I haven’t checked the situation in Sudan. I recall an opinion space by Nicholas Kristoff concerned about that.

David Brooks, might be the name is correct, does not write anymore for the NYT. I think he writes for the Atlantic. It would be hard to read everything published under the sun. Particularly, if I must finish my own writing soon. And I must do some more targeted reading.

So some of the things I mentioned above are distraction, but it was an active watching activity, but can be isolating, while doing chores, which was one of the excuses for that focus, might be.

The other thing of listening or learning about new music or something new, while cooking. The brain would choose what is the background activity. To listen the new information searched on purpose or to focus on cooking or in the laundry, etc.

I woke up late.

I found a few things to fix a backpack. But somethings have an of lifeuse with daily use. I think for the backpack it might be about 5 years. It would depend. But glad I found some of the things to fix. I must be more strategic and organized on what to carry and read as well.

I watched some of Nadal beginnings. I recall he use to blog his way to win some of the Grand Slams on the early stages.

Maneskin was with one of the late night show host, Farron, might be, Jimmy Fallon, but I don’t watch more than one short interaction.

Listened to a video as well, might be 1.05: a short video and the beginning of another, of a channel, where the presenter has a distintive LA accent.

O, I might have completed other very important task. So around 5 in total. And need to try a few things for another tasks next week. Schedule is key though.