My client's mother died today. We originally had plans to meet tomorrow to discuss the site that I am developing for him. I received an email earlier today informing me that the meeting had to be rescheduled due to the death. My reply focused exclusively on the rescheduling without any mention of the death. I did not say the typical "I'm sorry" or anything like that. It's not that I don't care, although I really don't care that much about a woman I never met before. I wouldn't feel right saying the typical stuff even if I did care.

I am looking out the window during a huge snowstorm and I notice that an iceberg has formed in the East River. It's height is almost exactly the same as the height of the Brooklyn Bridge. I notice that a car is embedded in this iceberg and I take some photos of it. Although I am on the 6th floor, I am able to walk outside my window and end up on ground level.

There is a table outside with a few people seated. Everyone is facing the camera. This is apparently an event to announce the winner of the World Cup, which happens to be Brazil and not Spain. I walk past the table and see a museum dedicated to Brazilian athletes that have abnormal physiology. There is an illustration of a man who has a third lung in his lower abdomen. There is also an enormous statue that is supposedly a life size model of a 30 foot tall Brazillian soccer player.

The alarm awakens me.

Gmail has been loading extra slowly for me for the past few weeks. Last week, my mobile access to gmail stopped sending me notifications when new messages became available. Now I am getting repeated Google Error pages when trying to load Youtube videos. I'm not sure if they have a pervasive bug/attack or if they may be over capacity. Either way, it doesn't look good for them.

I had been pretty good at avoiding procrastination on the latest project until today. I spent the last three days working very intensely on it, and I spent a lot of time working on it prior to the visit from my relatives. I had planned to spend the whole day working on it today, but I just couldn't. There was too much psychological resistance. In total, I probably spent less than 2 hours on it today, although I spent all day in front of the computer with all the project files open. I took many long breaks. Less than the usual amount of that was on the internet, because there is much less activity online on Saturdays.

I have been watching a lot of Chinese Paladin season 3. The main character's name coincidentally is the same as my father's real name. He has two names for some reason that has never been fully explained to me. I suspect that his legal name is a fake one used in his escape from China. My mother and grandmother always called him by this name, which is totally different from the one that he used on legal documents.

It's too hot for cooking and I don't feel hungry at all. Dinner tonight is herbal tea with rice protein, electrolytes, and a lot of water. I already consumed 3/4 gallon of water today.

I'm not sure if this "vacation" is ending today or tomorrow. The Canadian visitors will still be in New York until Friday, but my sister is going to leave early. That will make it easier for me to also escape. She had told me earlier that she would be participating in tomorrow's activities, but it seems now that she will be departing some time tomorrow.

I need proper sleep and food, and I have to get back to working on the website that is due in mid-August.

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