Don’t Tell The Monkeys – 9th May 2024

Don’t tell the monkeys that we understand
Let them think we’re stupid and dumb
Otherwise, they’ll force us to work
And their rat race sure looks no fun

Don’t tell the monkeys we understand
Our nature is just to laze and play
Let them think we’re too stupid and dumb
To be forced to an office job all day

Don’t tell the monkeys we understand
Can you imagine us wearing suits!?
We’re happy right where we are
Still closely attached to our roots

Don’t tell the monkeys we understand
We chose to communicate with grunts
The monkeys have forgotten now
That that’s how they were once

Apparently there is an old Indonesian myth that says that Orang-utans have the ability to speak human languages, but choose not to, because they know if we caught them speaking we would force them to get jobs.

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Today I’m feeling:

Pretty good so far though I’m disappointed to find my weight has still increased despite doing exercise and getting lots of steps in at the weekend.  I’m sure it will regulate back down to around 79kg once I get back into the teaching routine.

The exercises in the Mad Muscles app that I’ve been using for a month take a little longer than my normal app as it’s not possible to skip the rest times and jump ahead.  This means getting up a little earlier than before.  

The subscription runs out soon though and I’m not sure if I will try it again, I actually just wanted the chair yoga exercises but got leg and arm exercises instead.  Maybe when I get paid again I will check it out again, otherwise I will stick with the free app I’ve been using.

Today I’m grateful for:

All the Nat Geo books that arrived at the school a couple of years ago and are still sitting around waiting to be used.  I didn’t use them last year but can see that they will be useful for one of my classes and will save me time as I already have lessons written for them.

The best thing about today was:

The books I bought at Dasa on Monday arriving and having forgotten about them, rediscovering what I had bought.  The library grows way faster than I can read!

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

When I got home I stuck a load of washing on as I was running out of underwear.  I had to spin it twice as there were so many other clothes too and I started hanging it out at around 3 pm.

I joked to myself that it was so hot that some of it might be dry by the time I finish hanging everything and sure enough a couple of shirts were already dry.

A little while later I was preparing to head out to my room to play a little guitar but Amy called because she had forgotten to submit an assignment for one of her students.  As I waited for her stupidly slow computer to load, login and open the web browser I heard a bang outside and when I looked around there was a huge wind blowing through and I ran outside to our washing which was now scattered around the garden!

I furiously gathered everything up and shoved it into the kitchen, also worried about any rain that might come with this wind but an hour later, the skies are still dark though nothing else.

I eventually got to log in and sort out uploading Amy’s assignments whilst marvelling at what a piece of shit Microsoft Windows is.

Something I learned today?

I watched an interview with the economic advisor to US President Biden who couldn’t even explain how his own economy works.  

He made lots of confusing statements and then actually said ‘I don’t know how it works, but it does!’  

I checked to see if it was April 1st – it was THAT unbelievable.

Review your acts, and then for vile deeds chide yourself, for good be glad. — Discourses 3.10

I gifted some Thai candy to Baipad, her mum and Butter.  We didn’t go and ride because the storm that blew in kept threatening though predictably it didn’t rain at all in the end.

Did you do something difficult or challenging today?

Push-ups as part of my morning exercise.  The routine required different types of push-ups but my upper body is so weak that I could only do a few push-ups and even then, by the end of the sets I couldn’t do them all.  But I didn’t quit the routine, at least.