Driving an RV around and back through the Laguna hills. Get it stuck and tip it over trying to turn around
Try to sneak into a celeb party. Diane G is there and we go upstairs. Mike K is singing and I go over to check the levels on the recorder, adjust the gain on a few. Go downstairs, we’re getting ready to go somewhere. Offer a ride to someone, we get into my car.
Time stops…
…but the light goes on. I enjoy that song-gooey prog-you don’t want it to end, and played live you can tell they don’t want to end either.
As usual after a major disaster, everyone asks, “why does God let this happen?” Christian Apologists trot out the Fall as the source, and Jesus as the answer. They’re only partially wrong, but since they take the Bible literally, they get it completely wrong. Buddhists have it more right, as attachment to non-essential and impermanent phenomena is the source of suffering, and releasing attachment to that is the solution. If you go to the next stage and see your existence as one dedicated to bringing others to that state, suffering is welcomed as an opportunity to teach and learn.
Not much since last time-work, weekend, church, the usual. Starting someone on the Steiner exercises-a crash test dummy maybe?
Listening to: Eno, Steven Halpern, Breeders, Kuta wayang, Glass, ELP, Zen Sauvage, Glass, Gabriel, Residents, Coyote Oldman, Clash, Tom Waits, TMBG, Steely Dan, Zappa, Eno/Byrne, Lou Harrison, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Kraftwerk, Pura Paku Alaman Gamelan, Ivo Malec, Henry Cow, Alaistair Galbraith, George Clinton, Beastie Boys, Michael Stearns, Latin Playboys, elipsis.one, 311, Eno, Tool, Combustible Edison, Hendrix, Debussy, Peter Gabriel, Offspring, Peter gabriel, glass, Residents, Anne Dudley, Tabla Beat Science, turkey sounds, Roger Eno, Hildegard von Bingen, Steely Dan, Alice in Chains, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Veruca Salt, New Order, Alaistair Galbraith, Buddy Guy, Emil Klotsch, Pink Floyd, Tibetan monks, Mozart, o.m.s., Chopin, Tom Tom Club, shore sounds, Burning Spear, Nick Cave, Cake, tibetan bells, Bruford, Babe the Blue Ox, Flores, d’incise, Allan Holdsworth, Amorphous Androgynous, Lisa Gerrard, Jos Kunst, Schubert, Roger Eno, Peter gabriel.
2010/1/18
At the DeS’s, cleaning up the mess on the carpet. I get out the vacuum cleaner. Erika comes and says we have to go see the Pope. We get there, and they know each other-talk about landing in China. I stand there waiting while they talk. Erika takes me aside and tells me that I’m creeping the Pope out. I sit down.
In some cosmetics place, I ask the girl for a small thing of Clinique moisturizer. She gets out the big men’s one and I tell her no-it’s the same as the women’s. She gives it to me, I go next door and put it on-she follows and tells me it’s good. I like her. I walk out and down the street towards home. I catch up with Theresa? and ask her if she’s going to school. She says no.
2010/1/15
In an apartment, there’s a party downstairs with our church friends. It’s raining, I’m trying to get my kites in but they’re getting wet. It’s morning and I go back inside.
2010/1/14
Get into the back of a small car, the girl next to me holds my hand. I roll out of the car at a corner, run around looking for the car. Two guys stop, start fighting and shoot each other. We run the other way. Go aroung a corner and the police are questioning people. Walk back home-through a nice park that’s actually a meditation cult-wierdly dressed guys walking around. I walk along and into a maze of buildings related to the group. Turn around and try to get out of there.
2010/1/13
Go to the gym, try to drop my stuff off and leave before they collar me. I fail, and the chick starts asking me questions-I see that they have the wrong person, so I play along-give her my Long Beach address and tell them I’m not interested in rejoining, but can I work out today? I leave and go back to the apt-Penny M is there and we chat as I pack and tidy things up.
Another week.
At work, time to go home.
To recap: a pretty quiet weekend-I think we didn’t do much Fri. night and Sat., Sunday was church and more quiet. The week has been pretty routine, too. Making changes to a program that goes to everyone, and trying to set up to deploy Subversion and Mantis.
Slowly working through Steiner’s Occult Science-Matt’s teacher thinks it’s slow going.
Doing t’ai chi every day and trying to get to bed early.
Listening to: Peter Gabriel, nature sounds, Glass, Eno, Black Sabbath, Cult, Elgar, Bauhaus, Tibetan monks, Renaldo and the Loaf, Megadeth, Robert Rich, Prokofiev, Peter Gabriel, Todd Rundgren, Frits Wieland, Heart, U2
The new year. Changes afoot?
At work, end of the week. It’s a new year, and the beginning of a new decade, but in real terms the actual year is an arbitrary choice. Same thing applies to the day chosen to cross over to the new year. I have no idea what a sane choice for the year count is, but changing the new year to Winter Solstice, and making 13 months of 28 days, with 1 or 2 days of festival before the new year seems much more sane to me. Never gonna happen, though-too much is set up with the existing calendar.
Alright-I took most of the christmas/new year’s nexus off-at work 2 days, and we had a surprise storm one of those days. Christmas was nice-Erika’s mom was here, the kids enjoyed themselves immensely. The storm was a sudden 2 inches in the afternoon, melted away by the next morning. New Year’s was a party at a church friends’ house-lotsa kids, we watched the ball drop at 9. Erika had a huge migraine so she went home early.
Back to work Tuesday, the kids had a hard time getting up this week. Colin got a haircut. It’s been Portland rainy. I did a UI design thing late Tuesday night-hopefully it will translate into paying work. Work is busy-a number of things going on.
I had a Facebook discussion ith a childhood classmate about Muslims in Homeland Security and then about Islam and Christianity. She asserts that I’ve accepted Satan into my life, which is ridiculous, on so many levels. Not following Jesus-I’ll buy that, but I’ve been asked to not, so I’m not.
Not much else, need to get stuff done, rather than being lazy. I’m doing t’ai chi every night-Chinese National form. Low and slow, so it’s a workout. Maybe I’ll find time to jump rope and do the 6-minute workout. Working on a recap before bed, and I want to start the first KHW exercise-take an idea and focus on it to the exclusion of everything else.
Listening to: Jaster, dolphins, Allan Holdsworth, Prokofiev, Tibetan bells, Al Gromer Khan, Robert Rich, Reece Dano, Bruford, Kronos Quartet, Tom Waits, Glass, Mozart, Hendrix, Mickey Hart, Zappa, Tibetan Monks, Supreme Majesty (blecch!), nfc, Gamelan, Tibetan Bells, R. Carlos Nakai, Residents, Sufi chant, Gamelan, Frank Von Bogaert, Pseudophone, Carl Weingarten, Nirvana, Coyote Oldman, Blows Against the Empire
2010/1/7
Fighting some guy who wants to take a pile of money we have. Stab him a bunch-we’re ready for them. Hang out in the trailer with Al B., try to divide up the money. Some guy drives their car up and back-out of control.
At a kite thing-wandering around, see the quadline fields, walk over-lots of people are talking with each other.
2010/1/4
Practicing golf with Todd O.? and some Arab king. Tee up and have problems, walk over and get practice balls, more trouble. OK when swinging like a bat. Try another club.