Summary for July 2023

• daily life
• game
  • diver dave
  • Slay the Spire
  • soul traveler
  • “Patrick’s Parabox” and “Helltaker”
  • rain world
• Movie
• other

The biggest achievement in July is the establishment and persistence of several better living habits:

1. Eat breakfast

   I cook most of the breakfast by myself, sometimes I go to KFC (I bought KFC’s Dashen card and chose the breakfast discount), and occasionally I order takeaway. Cooking breakfast by myself is relatively casual at present, most of the time I cook noodles, sometimes boiled eggs, fried eggs, boiled broccoli and so on. I used Shoutao egg noodles and Zhongjing scallion oil to make scallion oil noodles for many times. Shoutao is recommended by friends. After cooking, the taste is still relatively tough. Don’t worry about cooking it. Zhongjing scallion oil is well seasoned, boiled Take out the good noodles, pour some and mix them well. When I go to KFC, I mostly want to go out for a walk. One observation is that it is also around 8:00 or 9:00. On weekends, the order I order at KFC is usually around 50, while on weekdays it will be after 130. I feel that there are not many people eating breakfast, so I like it for myself.

2. Do morning exercises after waking up every day

   Most of the time, I will do a set of fixed whole-body exercises. Occasionally, I will move casually for a few days when I am not in good condition. The energy in July is not bad every day, better than in June, much better than when I was working, and I hardly feel that sleepy every day.

   Energy may also be related to sleep, but after leaving the job, I haven’t deliberately improved my work and rest. After reading the sleep data recorded by my watch, I didn’t sleep better than when I was still working in the first half of the year, so I still think that energy has changed. Fortunately, it has something to do with daily morning exercises, and to a certain extent, it may also be related to the reduction of psychological pressure.

   Although I feel that my physical condition is getting better, occasionally I still feel uncomfortable in my cervical spine and shoulders. Sometimes it is because I haven’t slept well, and sometimes it’s because I have been sitting for a long time. I want to increase the amount of exercise, such as running by the river or rock climbing, but I have not made up my mind. In fact, I also like swimming, but what I like and am used to is swimming in the river. I still don’t have much interest in swimming purely for sports and fitness.

3. meditation/mindfulness

   Serious meditation/mindfulness seems to need to train breathing and so on. I don’t know much about it without studying it. I just want to observe and sort out my inner thoughts. I use the Pause APP to assist. Its interaction is very It’s simple, just keep moving your finger on the screen, a ball will appear on the screen and slowly grow larger as it moves, and soothing music will be played at the same time. I usually do this activity by sitting cross-legged on the bed and leaning against the wall after breakfast. Sitting is to keep awake, and leaning against the wall is to make the cervical spine more comfortable. In fact, any position is fine, as long as the whole body is more comfortable Relaxed and conscious, also tried lying down, but fell asleep easily.

   I am a person with a lot of thoughts in my head, so I often feel very tired. Meditation does not reduce the thoughts. Even during meditation, because I pay more attention to my brain activities, I feel that there are more thoughts coming out. But now I have learned Don’t try to deliberately control and guide them, just observe and endure. Occasionally, you can be more detached. Very few can enter a state of ecstasy and no distracting thoughts once or twice, but no matter what it is after the end, generally I can obviously feel that my mind is more relaxed, my concentration is more concentrated, and my mood is more stable. In fact, sometimes I can get a similar experience when climbing mountains, writing or playing games, but sitting down and closing my eyes in a daze is a threshold low enough to be able to do it every day things.

4. write diary

   It stands to reason that if I don’t work and stay home every day, it would seem that I have nothing to write about, but it doesn’t. As long as you try your best to observe carefully, there will be many things worth recording in ordinary daily life. The point is not whether there are enough rich and unusual events, but whether there are feelings worth writing down, whether it is spiritual or physical. As mentioned earlier, I have a lot of thoughts in my head, so even if I am in a daze, the surging thoughts and thoughts during that period will be very interesting, and the physical feelings are also changing every moment. It is worth writing it down.

   To value one’s own feelings is to value one’s self, and those who value themselves will not have nothing to write about. Sometimes I even feel that words are not convenient enough because I have too many feelings to record.

   I have been keeping a diary for many years, so keeping a diary is not a new habit, but I don’t have so much energy to carefully review the experiences and feelings of the day when I am at work, and I cannot guarantee to write every day. Writing a diary itself is also an exercise that can improve the ability to observe the details of life. The more you write, the better you can observe, and the better you observe, you can write more.

5. read

   Reading is one of the bad habits among several habits. One reason is that I am relatively undisciplined. I read a lot of books at the same time in July, so I didn’t finish a few of them. Then I want to engage in reading activities that can fully mobilize my thinking. Rather than just relying on reading to pass the time, so the requirements for attention will be higher. Because there are not many books that have been completely read, I will not write specific thoughts on reading this time.

other aspects:

• In addition to breakfast, I cooked 14 meals by myself, ordered takeaway 6 times, and had dinner with friends 7 times

• 20 outings, including 10 walks, 9 social events (dinner with friends, movie, etc.)

  

  Figure 1 Evening at 20230707

  

  Figure 2 There is a big fish in the sky

  

  Figure 3 The sunset glow of 20230723

  

  Figure 4 The moon of 20230726

  

  Figure 5 20230728 The sky reflected by rainbow clouds

  

  Figure 6 20230728 beautiful sky

• I met 10 friends and ate Nanyang Tea Room, One Sit and One Forget, Batiao No. 1, Dianyan, Roast Rakiya, Zero Kilometer and Bahe Lihaiji. Dianyan is a new restaurant discovered by my friends in July. Yunnan cuisine, the menu is very thick, there are many fresh dishes that have not been seen in other Yunnan restaurants.

  

  Figure 7 The very tender Hainanese chicken in Nanyang Tea House

  

  Picture 8 Crispy Red Kidney Beans with Sauerkraut

  

  Figure 9 The magical sugar cane tip that is not on the menu of Batiao No. 1

  

  Figure 10 Batiao No. 1 Red Wine Fried Pork Liver

  

  Figure 11 Batiao No. 1 Chinese Cabbage, Crispy Red Kidney Beans

  

  Figure 12 Fuyuan sauerkraut boiled dried beef in Yunnan banquet

  

  Figure 13 Zero Kilometer

• I went to Orson once (in fact, it is very close and you can go more), saw beautiful sunflowers, and went to the Geological Museum to see many beautiful stones

  

  Figure 14 Orson Sunflower

  

  Figure 15 Geological Museum Ore (1)

  

  Figure 16 Geological Museum ore (2)

• Watching movies and visiting supermarkets a few times, I found that there are many people in cinemas and supermarkets. The lively scene seems to be back before the epidemic, although there are many closed supermarkets and small shops around, and there are factors of summer vacation.
• Originally, I wanted to sort out the bills of investment and daily expenses, but I haven’t done it in half a year. The workload is really a bit heavy, and it is expected to be completed in August

I bought 16 games during the steam summer promotion, most of them tried a little but did not play for a long time. In July, I mainly played “Tears of the Kingdom”, “Diver Dave”, “Killing Spire”, “Soul Ferryman” and “Helltaker” The games “Patrick’s Parabox” and “Rain World”.

diver dave

Slay the Spire

soul traveler

“Patrick’s Parabox” and “Helltaker”

rain world

I watched five movies including “Raiders of the Lost Ark 5: Turntable”, “Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang’an”, “Tea No. 2 Middle School”, “Barbie” and “Fengshen Part I”.

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” doesn’t have much to say. It’s an old-school retro story. The character creation, plot conflicts, and many shots make people feel familiar and nothing new, but I think it’s very suitable. I don’t like it. I like it, but it’s okay, I don’t think there are any major flaws – judging by the current preferences, of course there are a lot of complaints, but I think these are normal in this kind of movie.

Watching “Three Thousand Miles of Chang’an”, I was amazed by the light-chasing animation production level. The script of the movie is very interesting, and the artistic conception rendering of each Tang poem, especially the last “Will Enter the Wine”, is also very good, but I can’t help watching this movie I was touched like other people. When I watched the movie, what flashed through my mind was “the first year of Zhenguan, the hunger in Guannei”, “the sixteenth year of Kaiyuan, the hunger in Hebei” and the three years of the epidemic. It was mentioned that the Anshi Rebellion was reduced to a background board for Gao Shi’s highlight display. In the troubled times, the suffering of ordinary people is completely absent. All the content is for the image of heroes and celebrities. In troubled times, the cultural self-confidence conveyed by such a form is too empty and narrow for me-of course, the movie is designed and positioned in this way, the problem may not be it, it may be me who is full of inappropriateness.

“Tea Second Middle School” is the most comfortable movie to watch in July. It has no profound content and excessive sublimation and preaching. The animation production level cannot be compared with Chasing Light. It is such a thing that teachers and students reach mutual understanding, and the jokes are mainly presented in the interaction between teachers and students, students and students. Most of them are dramatic or exaggerated performances of some details in campus life, which often make people understand Laughing, I think you can always find some shadows of your classmates in the various characters in the movie when you watch them. While watching, laughing and complaining, the happy scenes in school emerged in my mind–my happiest high school should be the year of repeating, eating snacks with my classmates in the last row (this is a good thing for being a good student It’s very exciting for me), and I ran out with many classmates to play on the balcony during class (sunning, chatting, playing games) instead of continuing to do problems with the teacher like in the second and third grades of high school. Children’s Day students went to the teacher’s office Stealing the TV power cord and watching “Gourd Baby” together… The head teacher at the time was more tolerant to us. The students were not good in grades but were serious, but they were not as serious as the students in the top class…I like it Telling stories about small people and small scenes in this way, their emotions are simple but real and stable, and the brilliance of humanity is in every real ordinary person. I don’t need gods and idols.

“Barbie” is an undoubted feminist film, although it only denounced the patriarchal system superficially, complained about the plight of women, and described it with a layer of comedy and fairy tales carefully packaged. Some ideal possibilities, alleviating the feeling of absurdity and powerlessness, and not really delving into the details of women’s plight and the internal mechanism of patriarchal society, but I think it has achieved its purpose. I don’t want to participate in its debate, praise or criticism. I just think that as a man, we should also understand women’s plight and women’s rights. When my female relatives and friends encounter difficulties, they understand them and give some possible help. In fact, I have female relatives and friends who are already in trouble (or have been). Furthermore, social discipline is a shackle for everyone who wants to fully develop their personality, and it is very important to establish such an understanding.

I think “Feng Shen No. 1” is at least a qualified movie. When I think of “The Great Wall” I watched in the early years, my eyes still get dark. At that time, I thought that Matt Damon would not make a bad movie. I was so naive . The industrial level of the film (scenarios, special effects, etc.) is already very good. The screenwriter is not brain-dead and the whole story is relatively self-consistent, and the actors are very dedicated. As a commercial film, I think it is qualified. I thought the story had changed a lot, but after I got to know it later, I actually referred to a lot of stories in “Wu Wang’s Fighting Zhou Ping Hua”. It doesn’t matter, the battle of immortals is the real highlight. This kind of film has no depth, but I still hope that they can cultivate a group of dedicated film practitioners in the future, which can be regarded as my blessing to domestic films.

Throughout July, my mental state was very stable, and some of the negative emotions mentioned in June rarely appeared. I have used the screen name “Not tied to a boat” for many years, and it was probably during this time that I really realized a little bit of the sense of leisure described in “The incompetent has nothing to ask for, and travels around when he is full, like a boat without a tie”. Even if only temporarily. Admitting and accepting yourself and your own behavior is useless to the whole society. It is a kind of resistance and correction of social discipline in the opposite direction. What’s the use of these… It’s no use, I’m just happy, what’s the use is up to me, and it’s none of “you” business.

As for what to do in the future, July didn’t think about it at all, just let nature take its course. People are always living for the future, planning tomorrow today, and planning the day after tomorrow. It’s not that this kind of planning is wrong, but for many people, this kind of anxiety about the future completely overwhelms their feelings about the present. Still in the process of overcorrecting, enjoy every day. What is relatively certain is that I still do not want to return to the workplace. The main reason is of course that I have enough savings, no debts, and the whole family is not hungry when one person is full.

A little dissatisfied is that I found that I was not doing well enough in reading and learning. In July, I originally wanted to read more books and read papers, but it is still difficult to enter a more focused state. I have overcome it before, so I will not be clueless, it just needs some determination and continuous investment. Maybe August will try to work hard, but it doesn’t matter if I don’t work hard.