I'll be with you in a moment, I'm just sealing some fates....

I've been struggling lately with the problem of

Being Functionally OCD---force magnifies,
 the one step forward, two steps back phenomenon 
everyone experiences and most accept, in day to day life.
Unfortunately for me one step forward, two steps back as a process
easily becomes overwhelming.

The size and scope of any problem makes absolutely no difference in my responses.

Large projects or small jobs are all treated to the same level of importance by OCD.

Repetitive projects such as cleaning or organizing that result in the

one step forward, two steps back circumstance

can become devastating for me.

My mind computes the repetition of these processes 

as not having been completed correctly the first time.

I know I am in trouble when i begin to think that everything i am in the process of doing  is nothing more viable than simple damage control..

OCD refuses, absolutely refuses to allow me to
dismiss the unsolved problems, mechanical or organization failures around me..

and

the standard universal platitudes such as
shit happens..
When stated to or at or for me... 
only makes my mental state worse.

It is integral to my belief foundation that

 with enough planning, work and effort,
That my personal world should
 operate, maintain itself, and appear at all times
as if it is the work of German meticulous precision.

German meticulous precision does not accept that shit just happens..

I am therefore always, always, fighting to stay balanced,
against what most believe to be a harmless platitude.

record everything I do each day writing in a Moleskine notebook?
Only Moleskine notebooks by the way, only.
Included in each daily entry is the
weather, sleep results, personal physical conditions for each day.
Occasionally sketches, plans &  mad scientist designs make their way onto the pages.
Accomplishments and failures on personal tasks are included that particular day.

I have made these entries for more than 10 years 
and have a huge box of Moleskines stored away.

The Republicans in Texas wanted to indite Planned Parenthood

for supposedly selling human tissue from abortions with evidence based only on

rigged/tampered-with videos.

The Republicans established a Grand Jury Investigation.

What the Grand Jury did tho was, it wound up inditing the creators of the

Phony videos instead of Planned Parenthood.

Well Bubba this didn't work the fuck out so well
The problem is that all the Republican Dim-fucking-Wit Presidential candidates
rushed to support these fucking fabricated videos---claiming outrage??
You would think the candidates would be pissed getting conned like this--
but the truth never gets in their way of this crowd.
They want to continue the Planned Parenthood investigation
and dismiss the Grand Jury investigation.
George Orwell was always right.

With the Intelligent Design theory is:

Intelligent Design Theory
Human teeth.

This week

I did repair work on my Braun Classic Chronograph which had been
out of service.
Battery replacement, watchband compass attachment and cleaning.

This particular analog quartz watch just burns through batteries
for unknown reasons, possibly just a design glitch?
It keeps outstanding time, and it's Bauhaus design style face
although small for me at 40mm, and un-lumed, the face
 is, in daylght, an easily read black on white numeric.
I purchased this particular watch years ago for $80.00 i believe,
and today this same watch unchanged retails for up to $350.00.

My watchmaking/repair craftsmanship has been remarkably 
up and down in quality as of late.
I was very happy to have even a small maintenance success.
I would have been unable to replace this watch.