
From my only walk this week but it was a fine walk.
Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia

From my only walk this week but it was a fine walk.
It’s a simple challenge – walk 2 hours per day on average. Do 10K steps. It combines cardio fitness with meditation. Having dedicated off-screen time is at least as helpful as the benefits of walking. It burns stress hormones instead of building more from whatever the screen is presenting at that time.
I believe walking is also a reason why I blog frequently again. I see things that I want to share. There are flowers everywhere. You don’t see much of that if you’re behind the windshield of a car. You see other cars.
My kids would watch the same TV episode over and over, knowing every scene by heart, and still enjoy it. I used to be like that with books until my late teenage years. I’ve read The Three Musketeers, Foundation, and Starship Troopers many times, perhaps 10+ times each, and the list of books I’ve read 3-4 times is also lengthy. However, the desire to reread books has since disappeared. No matter how good a book is, there’s always another book that might be as good and is also new to me.
I read “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” about 3 times as an adult. It might be the best answer I can give.

We have the saying in Bulgaria “Chavka drunk your brain” meaning you did something stupid. Chavka sounds better for a post title than jackdaw, otherwise same bird. 🐦

I finished 13 books in March. The only big one was White Sand Omnibus (which can count as 3).
The best ones were Thraxas and the Sorcerers, White Sand, and Avenger!
3 out of these books were written by writers I met in person.
I feel like I will slow down reading given that I have two difficult ones lined up and I’d like to finish them.