Watching the planes circle around, they’re doing odd stall things. Erika is scared. I tell her to go inside. A black helicopter passes by and I know they’re after me. I walk into the woods so they won’t see me-there’s an opening, they land and come to get me. I act all nice and tell one of the guys I have to finish my lunch. We go into a break room, sit down and eat.
2010/7/18
Going down the street shopping-want to get a tape with pictures on it-decide not to. Go further, turn around-Mathias wants to go somewhere else.
Friday at home
Friday, and I get to work from home. This is a mixed blessing, unfortunately. While it’s nice not to drive and I can get some more sleep, the kids and wife tend to not think of me as working. That and the network connection is flaky and slow-I spend a lot of time waiting, which happens at work, but worse here. It’s getting warm, too-no climate control unless I turn it on. Got to pick raspberries for lunch. Cooked barbecue for dinner. Worked on a thing to get grant $$$ for the inner development thing-that would be awesome. Gotta wait until August to submit it, Nov for a first decision, then build a full proposal, then wait until next June for a decision. It would solve a lot of my issues with doing it-notably a certain financial investment to publicize and disseminate.
I got thrown a curveball on this task and am having to retest. I also have things to do on the doomed project and I’m slacking on that-I have a distinct lack of time and interest. Plus billing and all the rest.
Last night was pretty quiet-Erika went to a meeting, I cooked dinner, and tried to get to bed early, but I wanted to watch the end of the stage-one guy got kicked out.
2010/7/16
Flying in a small plane. Take off-go through a cloud, think about using the instruments.
Back into the daily swing, I guess
Nearing the end of another day of work. I got things done, in spite of balky software and a complicated system. No worries.
Gamelan was nice last night. We’re playing here at the end of the month. All the pieces we did sounded good. Mathias has trouble with focus and stamina, so I don’t think he’ll play-just not ready. Home was a pain-I need to get to sleep earlier.
Looks like the cap on the BP well worked, finally. Not much else-Steinbrenner died.
Listening to: Mozart, Adam Ant, adrian Juarez, After Omega, Akashic Crow’s Nest, The Future Sound Of London, Los Lobos, Jefferson Starship, Tool, Sonic Youth, Mickey Hart
Another day.
Another day is here. I enjoy this. I’m almost finished with this task at work, one last thing and a test and I’m done. Not much else, gamelan tonight, last night was quiet-I cooked potstickers. Well, it WAS quiet until it was time for sleep, then we watched stuff on Erika’s computer.
Made it hard to get up, that plus Colin waking up at 5:30 with a sore leg.
Listening to: Aaron Drake, Aaron Lewis, Aaron Ximm, AC/DC.
2010/7/14
At a bookstore, run into my sister. Try to ignore her, have to say hi. Walk around, look around.
Back to it.
10:22 am-Hello, it’s Tuesday. I wonder what this day will bring? I really need to start bearing down on the Steiner exercises so I can write the program. It’s getting more difficult to do the recap at night and the meditation in the morning, not to mention t’ai chi and flute practice. Plus I’m staying up late and other things. It’s also hard to get to picking raspberries-I hope I can get to the blackberries when they start-we have a TON.
Pretty quiet weekend-not so hot-we went to the Mississippi street fair Saturday. Colin didn’t want to be there but he had a good time anyways. No church Sunday-Matt tried to wash the car, I cut the grass and picked raspberries. Monday was quiet-working on complicated new stuff. Erika hurt her foot and went to urgent care-not broken.
A water main broke on 99e last week and caused tons of problems-I went the long way around. It was also tough getting back to gamelan-Matt started 2 weeks ago so I have to go back home first. He’s doing pretty well. The 4th was pretty quiet-went to street party at a church friends’. My parents are coming up end of July.
Hiatuses happen
9:40 am-Well, it’s been a month since a music post and 4 months since a text post. That’s called a hiatus, I guess. Not as long as the one after 9/11, though… It’s been a bit of a wild ride, lo, these past few months.
I guess the major news is that Hollywood Video is no more and I have a job at Huron Consulting doing Java programming. I started last week. One of my former co-workers works next door. Odd, that. And the recruiter used to work for friends of mine from UUFLB. And there are Miami alums all over the place. I’m also doing a part-time Java thing that’s much messier. Like the last time, it only took me a few months to find work. And like last time, I was able to look for work while still getting paid. I’m waiting to see what happens with severance…probably nothing.
Not much else, I’m taking a break from the Steiner stuff. I’m still doing the exercises, but the equilibrium one is really tough with kids. We did sermons for church last week-rather well received. We have lots of raspberries this year, not a lot of strawberries, and the blackberries look to be bountiful. Pumpkins grew from seeds, and swiss chard too, but nothing else. It’s been very hot this past week, but chilly and rainy for most of the spring.
The world seems to spinning normally-the usual, pretty much. The BP thing is a thing, and the rest of the massive nastiness around the world continues. I wish people would try to be nice to each other.
Truthout is posting some great stuff-the disappearing intellectual, chartering disaster, gov’t impotence and interdependency idiocy. There’s lots more there. I posted a few other links over on facebook over time as well.
2010/7/12
Setting up, have to go to Guitar Center to replace broken guitar strings. Get a set, go back. They have some funky winder. I talk about the old days when there was none of this.
2010/7/10
In some small set of rooms, hiding. Go out into a courtyard-a giant comes and I trick him and get away by going around a big block. Run back to the hiding place-there are vicious animals after me. A red flaming bird thing comes and I tell everyone to hide, but they’re setting up for a wedding. I get out of there before the bird comes. I look out the back and see a hole in the concrete-there’s a guard walking away.
Walking along a river, see a huge glacier calve off a big piece. We start running up a branch trying to get away. Climb up a cliff and the water starts up. We jump over to get away.
In Long Beach, look out from the 2nd bedroom trying to see a car accident, but the screen is dirty. I open it up and it’s all gone.
2010/7/8
At the studio with Anthony and Ken. Going to start on a new thing, clear all the faders, start-automation is on, turn that off. Start miking a chair for drums. Walk around, start worrying that I wiped their stuff. Play with dribbling and jumping on a table.
2010/6/30
Talking with Mindy about her selling her house. She wants to keep half. I listen to her and we walk around. I take her to a party and find a place for her to sleep. I wander around, then try to find her again. Some kid is bashing a sax into a wall.
2010/6/24
At a kite thing, wander around. Get on a bus, it goes careening along, turns over, into a river. We get out, pull it to shore, everyone gets out OK. We’re waiting around.
2010/6/11
In the office, walking around with coworkers-fart, and they start thinking it was not just a fart and start making gestures for me to take my pants off. I ignore them and walk to where I was going.
2010/6/10
Fighting with my roommate.
2010/6/3
Hanging out with Susan S. We get undressed and hop into bed.
In front of an arcade/carnival, we’re waiting for someone. Go out into the parking lot.
2010/6/1
At a kite thing, getting ready to perform. I have a synergy, and someone wants to try it. I say no, then give it to them. I get it back just before I go on.
2010/5/29
A plane is circling, then it does tight circles facing up. One comes right at me and I pass right through it. I know the aliens are coming and sit down and meditate. I get levitated up, see lights, then a grey alien face, then I’m in a corridor. I walk through to a room, pass through curtains, and someone is going to massage my feet. I lay down and then go out to the courtyard and sit with Erika-we comment on the other people we know going in too.
2010/5/23
At work, having to deal with everything and the boss is coming over.