At the moment I am taking a break from working at the shop. The three hours I am taking right now will be the first hours in 120 in which I am not present in the store and it is open. I need the break.

Basically, I am blogging at the moment to give myself something to do while three songs finish playing on iTunes, after which I will be jumping on the old bicycle and heading back to it.

Today I am in a fantastic mood. I have been alluding to a problem I had wherein I did not follow my own advice and got into a disconnect between my expectations in a situation and the reality of that situation. Problem resolved.

I think it was not so much that I had not been following my own advice as that by thinking I wasn’t doing it, I wasn’t. Now I am.

Life is very simple when you understand that it is necessarily constructed of a series of objects, real or imaginary, concrete or abstract, and of all shapes and sizes, to which you assign values. Values result in planning, and planning and circumstance generate behavior.

Any pattern of behavior can be achieved if you understand that values that structure it. It is really remarkable how much of a difference in your life can result from seemingly minor changes in your priorities.

More on this later, but the song is ending, and I have to return to work.