Transmissions from the Northern Outpost

3 Good Things Thursday continues here

Every Thursday, I share three good things from today, in the past week, and/or in the week or weeks to come, to focus on what is good. I encourage you to join me and share in the comments, if you want, or in your own journal, or both, whatever works for you.

I’ve decided to continue this blog meme here on my new blog too. But I plan on having more than this or other memes and have posts “off the cuff” too.

The start of this blog

Scroll back or down, depending on where you are, or be lazy, click here, to see first post on Tuesday.

The start of a new year

“Welcome to the party, pal!” I feel like I’m telling myself as John McClane said in Die Hard. I’m only finally getting to a playlist of podcasts with meditation talks and advice on how to start the new year, here what will be fifth week of the year already. I hope Sunday and Monday, and next Wednesday and Thursday when I am off from work, to finish it and set myself up for 2025 and beyond.

Getting “warmer” here

Today, it’s going “up” to 27 (Fahrenheit) and 34 on Monday. That might not seem great or even good or “fair” as weather apps say sometimes when it’s clear but still cold. When one considers the last two days, where we here in northcentral Pennsylvania had highs in the single digits and lows in the negatives, it’s more than fair.

Author’s Note: Variations of “3 Good Things Thursday” can be found across the Interwebs and to which I was introduced by Deb Nance of the blog Readerbuzz who does hers every Sunday as part of her Sunday Salon post.

3 Good Things Thursday

8 responses to “3 Good Things Thursday continues here”

Helen Murdoch

Ah, the grey color in this box is much better now! I can see my text, thank you for altering it.

Three good thing: dancing on Friday night, beautiful weather (sorry about this one), and good books.

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1. Bryan G. Robinson
  
  You’re welcome. In the editor, on my side, didn’t show the black on black. I wish I could have white on black but that’s a premium feature with WordPress.com that I’d have to pay for. A limitation of the theme, which I’m not sold on. I like how it looks on phones. Desktop not so much.
  
  Don’t be sorry about weather. We’re getting a warm streak this week, high 30s. 🙂 Are you in northern California? For some reason, I thought southern? Reason I ask is, of course, the fires.
  
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  1. Helen Murdoch
    
    I am Santa Barbara (southern California), but 70 to 90 miles north of the fires. And, as I write this the rain has started so I hope it’s enough to help the fire-fighting efforts, but not so much that it creates landslides.
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz

I’ve been trying 5-minute meditations on YouTube. So far this year, I’ve managed to do a 5-minute meditation every day. I hope to build up to longer meditations. I keep reminding myself that this is just practice.

I’ve complained about the awful cold last week, and now I’m complaining about the muggy warm weather I woke up to this morning. Sigh. At least I’m not freezing to death like I was last week.

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Becki

Yeah – sounds like you’re in the same weather forecast as me. And also the same schedule – I have a hard time sitting down to recap 2024 and set some expectations for 2025, but I will like looking back on it once it’s done.

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joyweesemoll

Great to see you, Bryan! A blog is a terrific thing to cultivate.

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Marg

Congrats on the new blog! Cheers to new starts!

Have a great week.

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Ti

Here in California we did get a little rain and the past few mornings have been 35 degrees so ice on the windshield. Not too bad. Just ten days ago it was 79 so we never know what we will get.

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