Sit in a big church-there’s a gamelan playing. I walk over to the side and watch the preacher.
At school, walking to the fields. A landslide starts and I start running to get ahead of it. I veer off and go to the playing fields.
Daily posting-4/7/2009
5:16 pm-Leaving presently. Another day-last bits to clean up, taxes to start tonight. Home last night, Erika’s working on getting the garden going, dinner, bed, up earlier, to work, lunch. Salem got an x-ray-no marble.
Listening to: Mickey Hart, Tool, Debussy, Morphine, R.E.M., U2, Ellington, DN!, Eno/Byrne, Genesis, K.M. Krebs, Rashaida
2009/4/7
Staying at someone’s house. We make some incendiary device and set it off. We go into our room and grab as much stuff as we can before leaving.
Daily posting-4/6/2009
5:33 pm-Time to go. It’s beautiful outside. Too bad. Busy weekend. Set up for gardening, cut grass, went to church. Slept in today-kids are on spring break. More changes.
Listening to: Mangkunegaran Court Gamelan, Peter Gabriel, Alice in Chains, Dreams of Gaia, Zappa, Loren Nerell, Ian Boddy, DN!, (progressive youTube stuff), Bardo Thodol, Echoes of Nature, Peter Gabriel, Mahavishnu Orchestra
2009/4/6
At a Bon Jovi! concert. Show ends, and a fight starts at the front of the stage. We start to leave, but the rear gate has people pushing and fights too. We go through a fence corridor.
2009/4/4
Walking into a nightclub-see Lindsay Lohan at a table upstairs. She’s trashed, and we take bets on when she’s going to barf. We walk upstairs and it’s another bar.
Daily posting-4/3/2009
5:32 pm-Homeward bound on a Friday. Stayed up late last night, but up and out in good order today. Back working on my own stuff now. About 1/3 through the changes I need to make. Not much else. Taxes this weekend?
Listening to: Banyumas, Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart, Santo Domingo Monks, Drepung Tesor monks, DN!, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, (progressive youTube stuff), Robert Fripp, Sigur Ros
Daily posting-4/2/2009
4:13 pm-Getting to this early-I need to go to storage and pick up Mathias at a friend’s. Also, I finished the second unit test from hell. Brought back Matt’s project, worked out yesterday. Colin has a new bunk bed. His alarm went off last night at midnight. Same ‘ol otherwise.
Listening to: Clash, Mickey Hart, Hildegard von Bingen, DN!, Mickey Hart, Duran Duran (I think I figured out why these are here-to throw a wrench into my smoothly running eclectic mix), Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood-yummy Gentle Giant ripoff), Bill Bruford, Brahms, Echoes of Nature, Latin Playboys, Pink Floyd, Billy Bragg
Daily posting-4/1/2009
5:28 pm-Time to go home-another day. I need to go to bed early, but I have so much to do at night. That’s not going to happen… Getting through stuff, the usual otherwise.
Listening to: Nirvana, Dreams of Gaia, Mystified, Suicidal Tendencies, (progressive youTube stuff), DN!, Genesis, Hole, Pink Floyd, Sebastian & Barbiero
Daily posting-3/31/2009
5:16 pm-Another work day over-I’m tired. Hopefully I’ll get to bed early-I have to do so much at night. Plus it’s a workout night. <sigh> Not much-same ‘ol last night and today-getting through unit testing-one left to go. Working through the Great Turning too-everyone needs to read this book. That’s enough. Time to leave.
Listening to: Laurie Anderson, Radha Krsna Temple, Cream, Glass, Hendrix, DN!, Lavrenty Mganga, Adrian Belew, Bob Marley, Bill Bruford, Charlie Parker, ELP
2009/3/31
Walking around a train station, meet up with friends. Looking for some way to get some money. Go through a gate and we’re being followed-guy bumps into me and says something. I go around trying to lose him and inform the others that the action is off-all I have are envelopes.
Daily posting-3/30/2009
5:18 pm-Work Monday is over-making progress unit testing. Quiet weekend-went to a garden show Sat, slept in and cleaned the house Sun. The usual otherwise.
Listening to: U2, Glass, Conet, R.E.M., Neil Young, Tool, Christopher Fleeger, DN!Mangkunegaran gamelan, Nirvana
2009/3/30
Getting ready to go to a slumber party. Looking for bed clothes, start to zip up my sleeping bag.
Daily posting-3/27/2009
5:14 pm-Time for the weekend to start. Pretty quiet-I’m having the usual trouble getting unit testing done-the data and queries are very complicated, so I have to discover what numbers work, or make up my own data. It’s tough. The play last night was good, for a 3rd grade play-many of the kids don’t understand yet about what they’re doing-they just run through their lines as fast as they can, in low voice and monotone. I tried to get Matt to slow down and enunciate this morning-he did pretty well last night, but rushed through the last bit of his line. Not much else-bed, dinner, shower, bed, up today, work, lunch, work.
Listening to: Diamanda Galas, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Vivaldi, Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros, Genesis, DN!, Bach, Santo Domingo monks, Tchaikovsky, Kronos Quartet
Daily posting-3/26/2009
4:52 pm-Time to go to a 3rd grade play. Quiet day-working through unit tests on a c program-not as easy as Delphi stuff. Reading a devastating critique of the AIG mess. We are toast-this is going to bring down everything, unless smart choices are made. Stuff is getting done. I’m working out regularly-10 mins of jump rope plus the 4:30 workout. In a month or 2 I’ll be able to do the 5 rites. Not much else.
Listening to: Loop 2.4.3, Residents, Vangelis, Stephen Halpern, DN!, Tchaikovsky, Art of Noise, Stereolab, Nick Cave, Pat Metheny
Daily posting-3/25/2009
5:22 pm-Time to go home. Busy running things down, gave a demo. Not much else. Yesterday was OK-working through a change to a c program. Helped Mathias finish his project. Up, delivered the project to school. Reconnected with an old work friend.
Listening to: gamelan, Los Lobos, Lisa Gerrard, Laurie Anderson, Deftones, Kirtun, DN!, Al Gromer Khan, Stephen Halpern, Phong Nguyen
2009/3/25
In an unfinished building, concrete only. Go to the bathroom on the outside of the building. It’s full of slimy, squirmy things, cramped. I slip around a bit, leave and rejoin wife and kids.
At US, there’s a reunion? Kids running around, we go over to a structure, get our pictures taken and into a flyer. We leave and go through the kitchen-they’re throwing a lot of desserts. We go to the parking lot-have to slide down a steep hill. Dad’s driving us home, and we take a family that lives by us. We drive down this steep hill and see the city and the ocean laid out in front of us. There are oil derricks gushing oil and water. We drive under them, get to a dead end and I look at the map for a way out. We end up close to home, on a street. I get out to drive, and go through a car dealer with my lunch, which they don’t like. I leave and get back in the car.
At some place, Linda F is having a Monopoly tournament. I’m a banker and start handing out the money. One of the bills flies away and Dave G waits while I go photocopy one-it’s on the wrong color paper (pink)
At 30700, go to the basement, there’s a leak. I look at it and the pipe joint is done really bad. I have to go, so I tell mom about it.
Daily posting-3/24/2009
Listening to: Tori Amos, Rachmaninoff, Vidna Obmana, Echoes of Nature, The Blasters, Bjork, Debussy, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kate Bush, Gluck, Crystal Method, numun, Rage, King Crimson
Daily posting-3/23/2009
5:28 pm-Time to leave-need to get gas-whoopee. Pretty quiet weekend-school meeting Sat AM, helped Mathias with his project, trimmed the messed up hedge. No church Sun, didn’t do much either. Up and work today.
Listening to: Laurie Anderson, Hardo Budoyo, Echoes of Nature, Crystal Method, DN!, Soundwalk, Ozomatli, Oregon, resfilter, Brainscapes, Stone Temple Pilots??
2009/3/23
In a parking lot, go talk to Jill D about a fundraising thing. I’m going to go back to my car to get $5, but she says to talk to her later. I go back to the office-I don’t want to work. I see a legend about a donkey eating a man, and I watch the man get pooped out. He looks dead, but comes back to life, then changes into an odd cow/man mix-with horns, front hooves and hide. He’s really mad about the whole thing. He puts horseshoes on his front hooves and crosses a rope bridge-tricky, and there are loose nails everywhere.