Walking down some tracks. A train passes, the driver sees us and calls it in. We’re fugitives. Another passes and slows down. We escape down a slope to a lake. A group finds us and takes us underground.
A week?
Well. almost a little more than a week.
Not much happening-a thing Tuesday (that looks like a bust-more to come, though), plus the madman at the local mall and a school in Connecticut and a hospital in Alabama, gamelan Weds. (done until Jan.), volunteer Fri., clean Sat. & Sun-no church-Erika worked a holiday fair. We had a little snow Tuesday. Emphasis on little. Not really much more than that-on the run up to Christmas. Presents are done.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “They will be merged into a single universal free market.” The Globalization Reader Links: The Surveillance State Grows Another Tentacle, ‘Slightly Above Zero’: A Slogan for Our Age of Diminished Expectations, A Majority of Cowards, Our Level of Consumption Is Pathological, Is Our Republic Ending?
2012/12/21
Up on top of an unfinished building, bolting in a bunch of pipes. I’m scared of falling-look over the side-the wind is moving things around.. Go down and help someone with their wiring. Guy makes fun of me and I threaten him. Don’t want to go back up the building.
2012/12/20
At Diane G.’s apt. Help with putting away groceries. Want to go surfing. Walk around outside the apt.
2012/12/18
Playing golf. Mess with switching clubs and everyone else can’t play either-really short shots.
2012/12/12
In the studio, playing around with a keyboard, setting things up. Switch to home-big window looking out on a yard, door next. Planes are flying close and crashing-they turn into balls of light. One very bright one circles overhead. I say very loudly, stop that and come in already-you’re scaring the family. It changes direction and comes straight for us. It passes through the door and turns into a shadowy alien, walks over to the dining room and faces us.
2012/12/11
In a concert. All sorts of people in a circle with different instruments. I’m going to play the reyong. Wenten is there and going to dance. The reong is being delivered and turns out to be a bunch of instruments, 2 sets of them. Someone volunteers to play the other set and I arrange the instruments. The reong is real flat. We start to play.
In a holding pattern
until when?
I’ll have more to say about that later, this being a public blog.
Been relatively busy this past week-Erika went to Breitenbush this weekend. Left early Thursday, went to the library Friday, cleaned Saturday & Sunday. Plus gamelan, a thing is arising, some possible side gigs, usher last Sunday-craft fair. The kids are OK, but having trouble with listening.
Not much else, interesting things happening-developing-I think I’m almost ready to start on the ID. We’ll see.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Andrew Glazewski, the late scientist-priest of Britain, explains it thus: To illustrate this, imagine borrowing an atom from, for example, a hand.” After We Die, What Then?
Links: Strengthening the Ties That Bind in an Era of Alienation, Want Economic Growth? Study Says To Build Bridges, Hurricane Sandy in the Age of Disposability and Neoliberal Terror, Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All, Katrina, All Over Again, America Dodged A Bullet Despite A Negligent Press
2012/12/10
In a classroom, someone steals something and I run after them. Chase them through a courtyard. Catch them in a hallway.
Another week in the bag…
…and I’m chillin’, working at home. I think I may get something done too. Unusual, that…
It’s been a pretty eventful week for me. quiet Friday-didn’t go skating, went through my stuff & consolidated everything to my big white rolling bin. Now I have the bin, 2 book boxes, a cd box, my guitar, amp, sub, keyboard, kites, didge, mike stand, rainstick, skates, bocce set, rocking chair, clothes, shoes, computer bag, Stick (which will go once I get the pickup fixed), 2 tool boxes, luggage (including toiletries), document box and that’s about it. Erika did church Sunday & I stayed home. Work Monday, off Tues and Weds.
I drove to Seattle Tues. to see the King Tut exhibit with C’s 5th grade class. I had to get an Oregon driver’s license because my Cali. one was expired in July. I was sweating because I failed the test the last time I tried. I studied a bunch and passed easy. I had to go back to get the registration reprinted for the Toyota. I was close to late, but we got on the road OK, stopped at Burgerville, arrived with only 2 missed turns. I was the only one to find street parking-thanks years of parking in downtown Long Beach… We got to bed OK, I read a bit, but bugged everyone with a noisy airbed. Up early, breakfast, re-park cars, walked to the monorail. Wait around, take the monorail, stand around, take it back. Hang out in the park, armory, go up the Space Needle, go to the Science Center, look at butterflies, eat lunch. See the Tut exhibit-it was nice, but not expansive. Walk back, drive back. It was rainy, and the boys were painful.
Work yesterday and today, picked up the boys, deposited a gift check, shopped, and that’s it. Well, there’s a side gig and stuff in the works, and M is getting to be a teen.
I watched some of Apocalypse Now, some Terence McKenna, and listened to Moonage Daydream and dreamed about playing it in high school. I refined my edit of “Let’s Get the Show on the Road”. I read a cool book about rebooting your brain, downloaded some Swedenborg and Anton Wilson.
Links: If We’re The Land Of The Free Then Why Are We So Restricted?, America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out, Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged, Standard Right Wing Propaganda: Heroic Red States Support Lazy Blue States
page 23, sentence 5: “Between 1979 and 1990, the number of American children living below the poverty line rose an astonishing 22 percent.”, The Twilight of American Culture
2012/11/29
With Bob H., he’s a juror for an animal abuse case and he actually witnessed the crime. He’s scared, and we find a place under a staircase for him to stay. I walk around to look for people.
thankful
I was in the shower and I started thinking about what I’m thankful for. Typical around Thanksgiving, right? Not for me…
So, my list is pretty simple. A job, four walls and a roof, food, clothes, a good family. That’s about it. I mean, that’s not all, but when there are many, many people who don’t even have that, you’ve got to be grateful for the basics.
Here’s the list since last time-M to b’ball, wait for non-starter meeting, back. Lazy, church, Erika cleaning, skating with the kids. Work Monday, parent meetings Tuesday, 1/2 day Weds-look for glasses for Colin. Sleep in today, then thanksgiving at a church friends’.
I’m remoting into my old laptop, which is nice because this work one doesn’t let me write to external devices. Almost done repopulating my iPod. Not much else.
Someone did a cool thing with mapping population density to lightness on the electoral map. As you would guess by the cartogram, the majority of the red on the map is very light, and the blue is mostly dark blue. One interesting artifact is that a lot of cities are blue cores ringed with red.
Friday, and Friday
it’s Friday night, I’m tired. Sitting on my butt all day doesn’t help. I got some work done, but not enough. No matter-more to come.
Anyways, not much this week. Early up, walking to work, and back afterwards. S had a thing taken out of her foot Weds.-a small piece of glass-she was a champ. Erika is tossing a lot of stuff, she’s still having a tough time. C had the play tonight-Gilgamesh.
Again, we’re short of ca$h going into payday. I need the big score-one can dream, right? Or you can tip me, please. All 3 of you.
Links: If Jesus Hates Anything Maybe It’s Theology
Page 23, Sentence 5: More-equal societies have Gini coefficients of .3 or below. The Price of Inequality.
2012/11/15
Going home, pass by everyone’s house and saying hi. Go into the house and it’s a mess. Some guy is there trying to hide and 2 MIB cops are going to take him away. They try to spray mist to obscure the saucers landing but it blows away. I yell for more, then the saucers land. A crowd gathers and they fail to take off. I run down and toss them in the air like frisbees-they leave.
Back to normal…
Well, the concert is over and no gamelan for a few weeks-this makes my wife very happy, and I get to take the train to work.
Gamelan, gamelan, gamelan. That’s about all I did. Wake up, get boys up & ready for school, drop off boys, S, drive to work, work, drive to gamelan, play, drive home, sleep, repeat.
Sat. was: drop off M at school for basketball, migrate amc website, fix stuff, pick up M, drive to gamelan, practice, eat, play the show-it went well, but I wasn’t perfect, go to an after-party for a bit.
Sun was: church, teach t’ai chi, drive home, sleep, pick up a bit, jel. Up earlyish today, rainy, on the train.
Doing ui designs. An old friend might have some UI work for me. M got some teeth pulled, S is getting a thing taken out of her foot, C needs braces.
Here are Mark Newman’s electoral maps. These make things much clearer…electoral-vote.com nailed it too.
Links: Five Misconceptions About Our Tattered Safety Net, Explaining Socialism To A Republican, Hey, Rush Limbaugh: ‘Starting an Abortion Industry’ Won’t Win You Female Voters
2012/11/8
In an airport, trying to get to the United desk. See Matt going the other way so I tell him to meet me at the desk. I walk and walk and walk-the place is huge. Pass a bunch of restaurants and a play area-see the United sign in the distance.
In a cab with family. Some girl hops in the side window and in my lap. I’m aroused. Talk about raising the Social Security salary cap as a way to fund it. Girl hops out and we go. Later she comes back and invites me so see a congressman. I go and we chat, play with the stuff on her desk. I talk a little about raising the cap.
2012/11/7
Up on top of a freight train. Some guy is sneaking into the cab of an engine, then playing around. Our train starts to shimmy, then derails. We run down the side and jump off. I start walking to find a place to call for help. Go down a slope and the bottom is a hidden pond. I go back and the other guy helps me up.
4 days and counting. aka panic!
The show is Saturday. We have all the music for all the new pieces, and we can play them. Passably. I have my cards written up for them all. Fri. night, Sat. day and Sun. day were rehearsals. Yesterday off. Now it’s on until the show. I think we’ll make it. It’s not going to be perfect, but I don’t think it’ll be a disaster. Some of the pieces are really complicated and fun to play. Others are really pretty.
Not much else has happened. Work. There was a party on Halloween after I picked up C, home Fri. M spent Sat. night at a friend’s after basketball, church & usher Sun, pick up & drop off M & a friend, then gamelan. Drama last night. C had a hard time getting up today. Dropped them and S off, so Erika could sleep.
And it’s election day. My bet is on Obama, but the cons have a lot riding on election fraud, so you never know.
Links: Conservatives Want America to be a “Christian Nation” — Here’s What That Would Actually Look Like, Why a Romney Presidency May Be Worse Than You Think
Page 23, Sentence 5: “They have the strength to open up our soul so that the thoughts of our great leaders, the masters of wisdom and of the harmony of feelings can stream into us.” From the Contents of Esoteric Classes
2012/11/5
Woken up by a guy who’s interviewing me for school admissions. I go into a room in my sleep boxers. He picks up my application from a huge stack, looks at it and writes an evaluation. He gives it to me and I failed the section about desire to go there. I walk outside and look at old pictures of the buildings flooded.
A week and 3 days.
Until the concert. There are 2 pieces that we haven’t started to learn yet. The one I’ve heard is pretty dynamic, but we have no music. I think we can do it, but it’s going to be nerve-wracking.
Anyways. It looks like I’m on a 2-day blog cycle.
Erika got her iPhone yesterday-it’s very nice. I want one, but the keyboard is hard for me to use. The Blackberry’s much nicer in that respect, but the loss of screen real estate is significant. Maybe a slideout?
It’s wet out-I drove today and took M and S to their respective places. Gamelan tonight, then pick up C from trick or treating. I hate missing trick or treating.
Hurricane Sandy did a lot of damage to the east coast, not so much to Obama’s reputation, probably a lot to Mittens’.
Work is slow going, though I am making progress on fixing this data entry form.
Links: Our Words Are Our Weapons