I ended up moving the laptop behind me out of my line of site. The software allows you to "record" your brainwaves and review them after the session is complete.
After you wear the device correctly, it begins to measure five different wavelengths of your brainwaves in real time and sends the data via bluetooth to your computer...
If it clips-on but gets so big that it looks like a hat, then it becomes a hatinator, which sounds like something professional haters drink when they are thirsty.
Awww, sad! Meredith and I spent a few week experimenting with joint custody of Maddy before eventually deciding, based on our schedules, that it made sense for me to take her full-time. I took this photo after Maddy had been over at Mer's for three days. It can be so sad to come home to an empty apartment when you're used to being greeted by a little wiener. In my journal for the day I wrote, "I keep rushing home to discover there's nothing to rush home to."
On Tuesday afternoon I had lunch with my friend Jon. We went to summer camp together the summer after middle school and hadn't seen each other since 1990! From 14 to 36 in the blink of an eye! Great to see you, Jon!
This was the first party I'd gone to since Mer and I had split up. I was feeling sad & and little tender. I didn't come with a costume so Jenny helped me spice it up a bit...
Self portrait snapped after my last run of the evening 5:09am. This was a really magical night. Despite being in the middle of a breakup and feeling really scared and unsure about the future, everything that was on my mind dropped away and I felt happy and unburdened.
It's funny that we relate to places we used to live as old friends. I remember my dad's Mustang parked out front of the house. I had night terrors when I was a kid and when I couldn't sleep he'd drive me around the neighborhood.
While they were admiring the ceiling, I became quite taken with a nearby mirror that somehow made my nose look enormous! (Turns out it wasn't the mirror!)
As a consultant, I get to see lots of different work spaces. I always enjoy the kinds of conflicts that come from different companies sharing bathrooms.
Even when you win, you lose. (Incidentally, the face I'm making here is the same one I made each year when the elementary school photographer told me to "smile" for my class photo. Haha).
...I was trying different kinds of niacin (experimenting to see which kinds increased my ability to remember dreams!) and the new kind I'd just purchased made my face immediately swell up and get all puffy.
With Grant temporarily staying in the home office, I moved my computer into our bedroom so that I'd have a quiet place to get some work done for the remainder of Grant's stay.
Even their t-shirts are good! They were my very first long-term client and really helped me launch my product consultancy! Thanks for an awesome ten months, everyone!
On Sunday night I went out dinner with Marcos! He and some friends were in town from Barcelona. Marcos and I had emailed for years but this was the first time we'd met in person. Great to meet you! (Only took me two years to post the photo!)
After another TWO HOURS on the boat, we took a car from Tagbilaran to Alona Beach and finally arrive a little past 1:30am. Our taxi driver took us to a few different hotels trying to find vacancy without much luck. Then he looked us up and down and said, I know a place that probably has vacancy if you don't mind a place that's a little....different.
On Monday morning we checked out of our hotel and got ready for another long travel day to Alona Beach on Panglao Island, the site of Aileen and Ryan's wedding at the end of the week! Here's me with a Buddha on the beach.
...make a new travel buddy! Like this sleepy little abuela who spent most of the bus ride bouncing her tiny snoozing noggin against my shoulder. Haha. Adorable.
