September 13, 2014 - Breakfast

Well if I'm going to discuss this thing I should probably use it.

I went to a diner called the Roxy; it was the only thing open at this time in Portland and I'm still on EST. Burned through half my calories in a meal.

Fatherhood-hardcoding makes it impossible for me to wake up much later than 6AM EST no matter how I try. The Roxy was sort of edgy-ish and had enormous portions. I ordered a spinach omelet. It was heavy on the butter. I didn't finish it. I'd gone out looking for fruit and granola--good west-coast fare. There's a breakfast in the hotel but it's organized around these damn croissants. I had them yesterday. I'm sure a person of less chaos could handle those croissants. But that's not me right now.

I'm working on my talk for tomorrow. I found the core of the talk, the emotional center. Finally. It always takes so damn long. I guess the them is that living with yourself in the world is hard. The demands of the world are basically impossible. They don't scale.

I'm missing the conference proper, which is too bad. But I want to see how far I can get here in this hotel room.

I went to a grocery store and bought a couple energy bars and some fruit for lunch. Let's see how far that gets me.

Going to do a bunch of situps too.

Going to calm down.