In a field-planes are diving all around, all different sizes. I realize I’m going to be abducted to I spread my arms and say “take me”. I get lifted into the air them zoom off. Black out, wake up, all these hands are touching me. I say stop, they stop, and I’m in a room with a bunch of people working.
2011/12/20
At 1023, with HS friends. Dante O and some guys want us to go out. I say no, and they speed off the wrong way, crashing into a light pole and fire hydrant. The other guys go out to help, I don’t. Go out onto the balcony and a trio of demon girls fly by in an SUV. They’re looking for coke, and I tell them to go see the guy who just crashed. I hit on them instead, and one gets out. We start kissing against a wall.
2011/12/15
Go to a print place. Try to fill up print cartridges but spill a lot. Unload a bunch of pallets. Set up tables with the food on it.
2011/12/4
Rearranging my desk-it’s outside. Start tussling with a Hungarian? girl-she’s good. I finally get her tied up on knots. Go back to arranging my desk-Nick L comes with a job to do. There’s some odd chick with a headdress on.
2011/12/1
Watching a band practice-they’re arguing about vocals. Everyone leaves and I go outside-there’s a mess and Roger C offers to clean up. I go swimming laps and the water drains out. I try to swim back and Roger cleans up the mess-I put up a planter.
2011/11/30
At a club, Orb is starting. Lots of gear. I walk around and a guy asks me if I want to start for them. I start playing, but other people start doing it too. I leave, walk around the club. Dad is there.
Working late
10:55 am-Another Monday, but it’s a really short week. Went to the dr’s for another bp check & cholesterol, not bad, could be better. Short week! Weekend was quiet, except for loud kids. Been rainy. No church Sunday-shopping. Boys went to a church thing Sat night-we had Chinese and shopped thrift stores.
7:04 pm-Early evening, trying to get a little work in, remotely. Had a nice conversation with the German teacher. Messed up a few files and wasted time fixing it.
10:18 pm-Trying to finish up work. Bleh. Had spaghetti & sausage for dinner. Boys are being pains.
11:32pm-Done. Time for bed. Salem is now a pain.
Listening to: KPOJ
2011/11/22
In a field with the K’s, but Jim is sick. We’re trying to get an plug box set up. It has 2 parts that stick together.
Some guy is teaching with a piano. He puts a tiny box for the sound and it sounds bad. I tell him to try the bass strings and they’re really loud. I say he needs a big horn for the rest. I walk over and sit with Ann Wilson, who’s singing the Immigrant Song. I sit on her lap & sing too.
Sitting with Erika and a therapist. We’re talking about problems and I say it’s not about me being able to get aroused, though I wouldn’t object to enhancement.
2011/11/21
At some burger place, some guy is washing himself with a sprayer. Go to my car and it’s vandalized. Drive away trying to clean up, slide into another car-minor. Guy tries to take out his dent with a hammer and makes it worse.
2011/11/20
At Miami, wandering around. In a bar, then in a hall-kids juggling. Talk to Penny M about a seat for graduation-I need to pay-pull $20 out.
Friday is here.
1:44 pm-Waiting for a login. It’s Friday!. I like dressing down, but I’d rather be at home. Fortunately I now have it set up to where I can be productive-I have to remote in to a server in Chicago to vnc remote to the Linux box on a laptop here. That way database access isn’t glacial. I’d like to direct vnc into the Linux box, but I can’t. I had lunch with the team and a candidate for a functional role. At Applebee’s. Fun. She’s from Miami too! Got 2 bugs fixed. Last night was quiet-tidied up, cooked a bit, clothes and dishes. Got beer for tonight. M had a hard time staying asleep until I gave him some valerian. Usual up today, but granola instead of the cooking so I ate before leaving. Easy drive in. I love looking at the desktop slideshow.
I’ve been trying to come up with something to say about recent events in these here United States. It’s tough, because while people are protesting, getting arrested, getting beaten, maced and pepper sprayed, the majority of people aren’t. And some don’t care. And liberal talk seems of 2 minds. Conservative radio speaks for the 0.01%, so they’re predictable, as are the actions of the police. But some lib radio people don’t understand that the Occupy movement isn’t just about expressing dissatisfaction with the nasty state of income disparity, unequal taxation, corporate politics, etc. It’s also a cool experiment in direct democracy, where decisions are made in the group, rather than from the top down. People are working together and getting things done. So what if they don’t have a bunch of demands and talking points? That will come. It’s only been 60 days. Having said that, it’s actually pretty straightforward-“Get the money out of politics”. Everything sort of follows from that.
Here are the links for today: How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
Listening to: KPOJ (taking a break from the plod.)
Another day.
1:33 pm-The day is flying by, and I’m still on the same bug. Almost done, and on to the next one. Quiet evening-put clothes and dishes away. Watched Mythbusters. It was very windy and rainy. Woke up a few times by S kicking. C had a wakeup, and M too. Up as usual-messed up my alarm. A little cvonflict, but only a little late. Big backup in Sellwood-took the roundabout route-almost all the way to the bridge.
4:31 pm-Well, lunch was yummy-meatloaf sandwich. Got through the bug-and generated and fixed a few more. (now it’s 5:16) Time to go. Got 2 fixed today-more tomorrow. Time to go get food.
Here’s the links for today: This Is What America Looks Like, This Is What Resistance Looks Like,
Listening to: KPOJ
2011/11/17
At a bar watching Gentle Giant. They start fighting. They finish the set. I get my things and start to leave.
The next day.
I’m going to try to do this daily for a bit, see if I can start some momentum…I woke up at 7:40 from an average dream. That’s late, so we had to rush. That plus the boys were hard asleep and one was on the GameBoy instead of getting things done. We’ve been pretty consistently late this year-off our rhythm. Tough drive in-backed up all through Tacoma in Sellwood. Pretty good radio listening though. Rice & yogurt for breakfast.
11:30 am-Working on testing a bug. Now it’s 12:10. Need to rework the logic. Busy on Floating City, went to *$. No gamelan for the next month. Helping a co-worker with a PL/SQL problem.
2:20 pm-Time for lunch-wasting time on this PL/SQL thing and testing a bug-Eclipse and SQL Server aren’t playing nice. Looks better now. It’s rainy and cold out-glad I’m inside, but the early nightfall is still tough.
5:00 pm-Last drink of water. I actually made tea, too. Nice lunch-leftovers as usual. Got the bug fixed, another, and I’ll finish this one up and call it a day. Friending some of the gamelan folks.
Listening to: KPOJ
“Now isn’t that special…”
Okay, after a break of, uhhhh, a little while (make that 5 months), I’m finally going to post something. “Now isn’t that special…”
I guess part of the problem is that I’m just so busy, and carving time out of work is impossible, and carving time out at home is even more impossible. That plus settling in to a new place, pushing out releases at work, gamelan just doesn’t leave me with enough energy to get things done. I did, however, get to putting an organizer together, which might help a little. I’m still trying to work through the inner development stuff-I found a really good Steiner text on this. We switched to a credit union last month too-trying to get occupy moving forward a bit. I’m mulling over getting into politics-we might be close to getting the pendulum swinging the other way.
Onward. Here’s the recap: Moving, 4th of July, Matt to reading camp, Erika girls out day, girls sleepover, Colin campouts, church friends leaving, watched Jaws, Colin to school camp, birthday-party, show, moon ball, Erika to Breitenbush, Matt baking for church rummage sale, boys to music camp, doctor consult, baby shower, Hood River birthday party, Art in the Pearl show, rummage sale work, weekend at Ocean Shores with parents, 4th grade camping, church’s new building, dentist, boys to Ekone ranch & Opal Creek, sick, Erika to OWS protest, Erika surgery, short gamelan show, clean house, Halloween, indoor kite-sore, usher at church, gamelan show, church dedication.
Here are the links: there are a lot because it’s been so long, and occupy too! Did Bush Leave Us Bankrupt, Corrupt, Ungovernable?, Breivik’s Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours, 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back, Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version), America in Decline, Could this time have been different? , A Movement Too Big to Fail, The Myth of American Exceptionalism, The Revolution Cannot Be Stopped, America’s ‘Primal Scream’, The Instability of Inequality, Losing Their Immunity, Protesters Against Wall Street, The Other 99% of Us Can’t Buy Our Way Out, America’s Lost Decade, Is Another Depression Possible?, The Reign of the One Percenters, How Unequal We Are, 6 Ways the Rich Are Waging a Class War, War and Shopping, Rich People Create Jobs!, How to Regain Our Democracy, Calling All Liberals: It’s Time to Fight , 5 Republican facts, Here’s What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About…, A Nation of “Suspects”, supply side-epic failure, Real Class War, Middle Class Death Watch, Poverty and Income in America, The Fall of the United States, The Legacy of 9/11 and the War on Intellectuals, The Zero Economy, Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day, Our Vanished Civil Liberties , Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?, Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy, Can the Middle Class Be Saved?, Occupy Wall Street’s Battle , New Social Justice Index Places U.S. Near Bottom , What Motivates the Occupy Movement, Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed, The Rise of American Fascism, Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy. On the brighter side, Violence Vanquished, No Child Left Behind Gets Left Behind, Scientists discover virus that kills all grades of breast cancer ‘within seven days’, cyndi lauper puts a roof over lgbt youths heads, Occupying the Rust Belt, Occupy the No-Spin Zone, A Progressive in the Age of Austerity, Ten Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy, Now Is the Time for an Economic Bill of Rights, Ten Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything, The New Progressive Movement.
Listening to: KPOJ
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Just because this knowledge has been slowly prepared and has these deep roots, it emerges little by little, as though independently, in the West. ” From Jesus to Christ
2011/11/15
Talking with someone about the meals at the place we’re at and how it’s Atkins and meat is at the bottom-we want it at the top.
2011/11/12
Watch someone driving on the wrong side of the road and crash into another car. Stop to help, and the person driving was a weird little blobby thing and drunk. Picked her up in my arms.
2011/11/10
On the 2nd floor of the Blue Cafe-it’s closed and the Jabbz folks are redoing it. Walk around.
2011/11/4
At an old Costco, trying to return something. The place is falling apart and the guy says this one has been around forever. I say I went here back in the 80’s. He gets something from a toolkit. I climb up the scaffolding.
2011/11/3
Walk onto a go-kart track-twisty. Guys go past, then someone crashes and loses a hand. More crashes-I leave. Some woman falls and they won’t pay for her treatment.
Walk around a house. I get a call from Annie P that her mom died. I try to comfort her but she breaks down. I hang up, then leave but I see her sister. I pat her on the chest, ‘but don’t tell her
Drive to help someone move some stuff. It’s heavy.