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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen.

This is a totally spontaneous Roma. I came upstairs to vacuum up a bunch of dead bugs from under our electric tennis racket bug killer.

And just spontaneously decided to press the button and start recording a Roma because honestly I have to go pick on you up in an hour and a half.

That's not really enough time to get started on the project I was going to do. And I don't really know what to do. So I thought, fuck it, I'll just record a Roma. Why not? Let's do it. Let's just do it. Let's not think about it. Yeah. So here I am.

I'm going to talk about a few things. I'm going to admit some things. Some shameful things. Some things that might make you decide you don't like me anymore.

But before I do that, I'm going to play a voice snippet that just came in this morning from Chicago.

Hey Chris, in all the tangential years out there. This has been from Brookfield Illinois for a jog in the rain.

It's tornado sounds just went off. But this looks too bad. I guess I should just pick up my pace. Thanks. Bye.

Jogging in tornadoes. There's something about that that feels either very right or very wrong. I'm not sure which.

Before I go further, I'm going to take one posted note off my computer, which says, mention fluid stance. I'm standing on a fluid stance thing right now, a product. I forget what it's called, but it's a beautiful piece of technology. It's looking down at it. It's bamboo surface. It's kind of like a surfboard, like a short.

It's probably like a snowboard, I guess it's a shoulder width. And it's got a ball on the bottom. And so if you have a standing desk, you stand on it and you sort of move around.

And they say it strengthens your core. I don't know if it strengthens my core. I don't know how to measure my core strength. And even if I did know, I probably wouldn't do it.

Just like I don't weigh myself. But I will say that it makes standing at a desk the way I am right now, more interesting because you're constantly kind of shifting your weight around.

It works on your balance. I definitely think balance is an extremely important component of both mental and physical health.

Finding the sweet spot where everything is quite literally in balance, right?

It's a sort of physical analogy. It's analogous to the sort of balance that we look for in our psychological and emotional lives.

The sweet spot between excitement and boredom, safety and being in a rut.

Well, I guess safety is being in a rut. So danger and being in a rut, danger and safety, let's say.

Routine and spontaneity. Pick any quality that you think makes your life better.

And you probably realize that the opposite is also a valuable component of a good life.

So it's not that we want excitement all the time. And it's not that we want peace and quiet all the time. It's that we want that sweet spot in between the two.

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