Recently, I started following quite-a-few more feeds. Safari shows numbers in the bookmarks bar for updates but it does a poor job of letting the user interact with a large number of feeds. Moreover, you have to load each page individually or use the rss reader from the feed:// option within the browser but for whatever reason, that had been acting up for me lately.

I found an OPML exporter for Safari and imported my feeds into Google Reader. So far I like it, maybe it would be good for you to. What, in your attempts at simplifying, has actually become more complex?

So, anyway, I was making an egg in a frying pan recently and I decided I would limit myself from doing it the usual way. You know a spatula. So, in it’s place I substituted a cheese slicer. The egg flipper thing was right there next to the stove, like it always is but I decided to impose a limitation.

About the pain part… I was tipping the slicer turned flipper toward a desirable angle on the backside of the pan, paying more attention to the different way I was doing it than the dangers at hand, when in an instant I uttered “aaaahhhh,” pulled my hand back and stood there astonished. Of course I touched my knuckle to the hot pan. Geez. What else was I expecting it to do than to hurt? The thing of it is, I was not paying any attention to my hand, I was not expecting anything other than common functionality from my hand that I have grown to love and depend on. I was just paying attention to my nifty cheese slicer turned flipper.Out of this experience the most interesting thing happened, I was happy I am able to feel pain. That is a bit weird, I know. But really, is it? I have never wanted to feel pain, nor have I ever been thankful that I could. But as I stood there, astonished, I was also really excited.  This, of course, flies in the face of all that our current cultural climate proclaims. That is to say that pain is bad even something to actively avoid. I say, wow… I can feel pain, neat.