Year: 2014

Another rainy day. Fall is definitely here, right on time.

A thing for work. Meetings. (3:42) More work stuff. Didn’t get the first thing done.

11:07-trying to get a thing done. Work in the way home, dinner, gamelan. Boys are watching South park.

12:29-Got the thing done, but a hassle. Watching Predator 2-fun, I guess-seen it so many times. Time for bed. No last thing, though I need it-been thinking about it all day. Correction, yeah, did it anyways…

and it’s 8 on Thursday-very busy at work, so no time. Meetings, stuff to do.
and now it’s Friday-the week just spun out of control. Got some things done, and we get to leave early! Woo-hoo!
Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon. Good coffee, the kitchen is staying clean. Need to fold laundry and put it away. We were going to a friends’, but that got pushed back. Maybe down to Powell’s…on Hawthorne and the libe and shoppes on Hawthorne.

Listening to: Black Notes, Z-Arc, Hooverphonic, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Earth, Material, R Carlos Nakai, Rage Against The Machine, Tom Tom Club, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Gamelan, Blue Man Group, Al Gromer Khan, Brendan Kinsella, Todd Rundgren, Rush, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Jethro Tull, Tchaikovsky, Biosphere, Bill Bruford, Michiel Borstla, The Orb, Jefferson Starship, Brannan Lane, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, attack attack attack, rakombinacje, Brian Eno, Rush, Black Uhuru, Coyote Oldman, The Residents, Art Bears, Eno & Byrne, Bhagavad Gita, David Bowie, Hawkwind, Rage Against The Machine, Dockta Valkus, The Future Sound of London, Silverchair, Aaron Lewis, Tchaikovsky, Enya, Jefferson Starship, The Flaming Lips, Greg Baumont, mystified, Audioslave, The Classics, Steve Roach, Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Genesis, Touch 33, Brainscapes, Dead Can Dance, David Bowie, Sly & Robbie, attack attack attack, Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, insanic4, Tool, Melvins, Alexei Borisov, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Dead Can Dance, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, A Beautiful Machine, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, A Beautiful Machine, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Steve Reich, Peter Gabriel, Rage Against The Machine, Tori Amos, Ravi Shankar, The Police, Genesis, The White Stripes, KMFDM, Chris Breemer, Steve Roach with Vidna Obmana, Primus, Veruca Salt, Vidna Obmana, Debussy, William Orbit, Pink Floyd, Schumann, Brian Eno, Allan Holdsworth, Peter Gabriel, Gil Scott-Heron, Gamelan Mitra Kusuma, art bears, Al Di Meola, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Harold Budd, Mozart, Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Nebula Drone, Thomas Dolby, Amorphous Androgynous, Brian Eno, Larajii

Links: Hundreds of High Schoolers Walk Out to Protest Conservative Takeover of History Standards, The Coup D’etat Is Over, the Corporations Won, Why Right-Wing Christians Think They’re America’s Most Persecuted, The Show-Off Society, We Have Met the Existential Threat, and It Is Us, Totalitarianism, American Style, Big Gains for the 1 Percent of the 1 Percent, It’s Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback,The Rich Are Getting Richer, Part the Millionth, Ten Popular Mind Control Techniques Used Today, “American Dream” Is Now a Myth, The Political Awakening of a Republican, The Cruelty of the Koch Right “Christian” Right

Well, I got to bed a little earlier last night, but I’m still tired. I wonder if I’m coming down with something? I lost a sliver of a metal crown a few days ago too.

OK, so lots of traffic coming in, and the train was having problems before it got to me. More stuff to worry about at work as well.

9:37-Easy home, dinner, dishes and laundry. Sprinkling a bit. S to bed. Agents of Shield. Looking forward to Person of Interest.

Listening to: The Aphex Twin, Brand X, Mevlevi Sufi, Tao Te Ching, Drepung Tehor Khangtsen, Funkadelic, Camel, adrian juarez, Genesis, Heart, Bill Bruford, Greg Baumont, Steve Miller Band, The Residents, Gluck, Cedric Peyronnet , Charlie Parker, David Canright, Steve Roach, Laurie Anderson, Smashing Pumpkins, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Veruca Salt, Gordon Hempton, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Brian Eno, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Jenny Bird, Grand Mixer D.ST., Black Uhuru, forma

Links: 50 Is the New 65: Older Americans Are Getting Booted from Their Jobs — and Denied New Opportunities, The American Middle Class Hasn’t Gotten A Raise In 15 Years, What It Means to Be Middle Class Today

Here it is, end of Saturday.
Slept in, hung out, coffee, clean kitchen, bathroom. Got Odyssey for M’s Kindle. Wash, went to get cable for M’s phone. Dinner, folding, spa, S to bed, more hanging out.

And Sunday. Slept in a bit, get ready for church. M stayed home. E went to a UCC service. Back home, get ready for climate thing. Train downtown, walk, listen to speeches, chase S. Walk a bit, the *$ & back home, with a stop at TJ’s. Dinner, spa, S to bed. Conflict with M.

And now Monday. Up late last night making M’s new mp3 player have stuff on it. Woke up very tired. Traffic, missed train. Meeting, work, stuff. Still super tired.
7:18-got stuff done, easy ride home. still tired.
9:48-S to bed, fun show. Blacklist.

Listening to: Master Musicians of Jajouka, Philip Glass, Rush, Throbbing Gristle, Japan, Kansas, Morphine, Peter Gabriel, Justin Vanderberg , Robert Horton, Sigur Rós, Akashic Crow’s Nest, George Harrison, Jane’s Addiction, u2, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Rusty Crutcher, Melvins, Archive, Peter Gabriel

Links: “They” Live; “They” Rule, As World’s Population Booms, Will Its Resources Be Enough for Us?, America Keeps People Poor On Purpose, Machiavelli and Oligarchic Democracy, US Populist Movement Is on the Rise, The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises, 7 Signs America Has Regressed Back To the Harsh, Cruel 19th Century, Imagining Our Dark and Stormy Future, The Coming Climate Revolt, How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign, Sea Change: The Ecological Disaster That Nobody Sees

It’s Friday. Hard to get to sleep last night, and the kitten and S visited this morning. No traffic on the way in-made the train I usually miss. Work was…work. Got stuff done, but I’m feeling very fatigued. Meeting, trying to get stuff wrapped up..

8:08-Hanging out after dinner, got some stuff done. Easy ride home, got a ride to the train from a co-worker. Did a little bit more work-I want to get more done this sprint. E took a nap, but dinner was done. Made rice, ate at the table. S to bed, she has a tummyache. Spotty network connectivity.

Listening to: spoonPhase, Melvins, Japan, Nina Gordon, Century of Aeroplanes, resfilter, Brenda Hutchinson, Allan Holdsworth, Supercharger, Bleep, Bitplasma Division, Charlie Haden/Pat Metheny, Skinny Puppy, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Rush, Fiona Apple, Prokofiev, Eno, Brian & David Byrne, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, mystified, David Sylvian, Sugarloaf, John Coltrane, Vidna Obmana, Juluka, Dimitris, The Smashing Pumpkins

Links: My Compelling Reasons To Be A Progressive!, What to Do When You’re Running Out of Time

Fall is definitely here-rainy this morning, and cool all day.

S got into our bed, hard to sleep. Not feeling 100%. Late to work-mucho traffic. Got stuff done, but interrupted a lot. A meeting.

Easy home, dinner at the table, help C with flute. S to bed, hanging out.

Scotland defeated the independence referendum.

Listening to: Pat Benatar, Brendan Kinsella, Primus, Anugama, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Aerosmith, art bears, Steve Roach, Hawkwind, Thomas Dolby, The Flaming Lips, Afrika Bambaataa, Anne Clark, ADA, Karawitan, R Carlos Nakai, Samuel Barber, Audioslave, Filter, Rush, Jefferson Starship, Lili De La Mora, Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana, return to forever, David Salvage, Brannan Lane, Harry Partch, Marilyn Manson, Lezrod, Lee Perry and “The Upsetters”, Alastair Galbraith, Brian Eno – David Byrne

Links: The Great Concentration or the Great Fragmentation?, America’s Political Spectrum Is Not Left to Right, It’s Top to Bottom—And It has Failed the People

Not feeling well today, so I stayed home. E went to the dentist’s for fillings. Parent meeting tonight, so no gamelan.

E came home, laid on the couch, and watched a Wonder Woman/feminist thing. Not much else going on.
5:25-Kids are home, took a nap. 6:52-Dinner, E made sauce, clean kitchen. 11:14-S to bed with stories, diddle around, C has recorder tomorrow. Time for bed.

Links: In America, Healthy Eating Is for the Privileged, Of Jenga Towers and Environmental Offsets, CO2 levels in atmosphere rising at dramatically faster rate, U.N. report warns, Naomi Klein on the Great Clash Between Capitalism and the Climate, The Great Avian Die-Off: Two Reports Point to Grim Future for US Birds, So Much For Religious People Being More Righteous, Is America a Police State? For Many, Yes, Sit Less, Live Longer?

The next follows from the last one. Now is forever Now, but it has a name.

2 dreams, but I don’t remember either now. I need to write them down when I wake up, and post them in the dream blog. Also type in the old ones and mass post them.

S got up with the kitten climbing all over her. I tried to get him to stay with me, but it didn’t work and we both got up. She’s a pretty good help in the morning. E got up, and I had to leave. Easy ride in. Talking on FB about Fox News and polarization-injecting a historical and progressive viewpoint. Time for coffee. C stayed home sick.

1:08-Quick meeting done, more to come next week and stuff to do right now, and a rework on one.
3:47-Time to go home-lunch and some things done.
10:18, no, 10:47-Home, dinner, S to bed with books and a story. Tidy, and fold, and time for bed.

Listening to: Robert Fripp, Built to Spill, Gil Scott-Heron, Babe The Blue Ox, The Crystal Method, Peter Gabriel, Soundwalk, Earth, Steve Reich, Gyudmed Tantric Monastery, Steve Roach, Peter Gabriel, Coyote Oldman, Babe The Blue Ox, Brand X, Radiohead, gamelan, Brainscapes, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, Morphine, John Lennon, Philip Glass, David Sylvian, White Zombie, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Devo, Prokofiev, Rush, alva noto, Dead Can Dance, Philip Glass, Alva Noto, R.E.M., Babe The Blue Ox, Peter Gabriel

Links: We’re Wrecking the Planet for the Next Millennia, Salt Is Not the Enemy. Guess What Actually Ruins Your Health Instead?, Corporations want big government/Americans want a government that works for them, Why Americans Know So Much About Sports But So Little About World Affairs, 10 Infuriating Graphs About Life in America If You’re Not Rich, 7 Reasons Why It’s Easier for Humans to Believe in God Than Evolution, Home Free?, Playing God, The ‘Death of Adulthood’ Is Really Just Capitalism at Work

Monday, again. Didn’t get to this at all.

Hard to get up, easy to work, but late-traffic on the 99 determines when I arrive downtown. Meetings, a bunch of thrashing with building, fixed one thing, started on another. Missed the Limited, even though I was running and waving.

Home, dinner, S to bed, back out, then bed. Not much else for a Monday-we got more $$$ returning an unneeded flute, so we’re breathing a little easier.

Listening to: Purcell, Brainscapes, Hooverphonic, Romeo Void, Constance Demby, French Frith Kaiser Thompson, Peter Gabriel, Michael Stearns, Cult, Gamelan, The Art Of Noise, Kodàly and Janàcek, Brooklyn Rider, Michael Shrieve & Steve Roach, Daniel Lanois, Al Gromer Khan, KMFDM, Peter Gabriel, Enya, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, Babe The Blue Ox, Tao Te Ching, Beck, Deftones, Peter Gabriel, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Lagrima, ZZ Top, Philip Glass, Bhagavad Gita, Satomi Saeki And Alcvin Takegawa Ramos, aodl, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dutilleux, Jenny Bird, Constance Demby, Anne Clark, Eno-Byrne, Primus

Links: Madonna and Manchild: Is Adulthood in America a Relic of the Past?, Sacrificing the Vulnerable, From Gaza to America, Damnation, American Style: How American Preachers Reinvented Hell, How Billionaires Like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson and Sam Walton Are Destroying America, A Star in a Bottle, In Which I Feel Overwhelmed and Impotent, and Wonder at the Falsity of Glory

Quiet morning-S got up early, so I had to too. That and I rarely get back to sleep. House is pretty clean, so there’s not much to do-bathroom, sweep and vacuum. M’s old teacher is coming over for dinner.

2:38-Bathroom, sweep and vacuum are done. E is making an altar. Need to put some stuff in the outside closet, also sweep the porch. Done and done.

Sunday, 7:36-N came over, plus M’s classmate A. Nice dinner and visit. I had a jalapeno juice from the bank, and it was HOT. Tired, went to bed early.
Up, church, conflict, I walked out. Walked around, sat, back in the balcony. Started up again after, I walked out again. Talk, sold the mando, library. Dinner. S to bed, E is watching Beauty and the Beast-blecch-romantic trash.

Links: Reconceiving Change in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism, 12 Things White People Can Do Now Because of Ferguson

Friday, half day, working from home. Kids to school, picked up E from CMC. Quiet, working, meeting. E went to get the kids, tidied up, next is dishes and folding. Woo-hoo!

6:39-dishes are loaded, cooked burgers for dinner. E got food from the bank. Clean up, then fold. Need to finish up one work thing. Done-closed stuff & checked it in. Folded laundry, put S to bed-she has an achy tummy. Back out, more laundry, put dishes away.

No aurora yet.

Listening to: Tchaikovsky, Tony Levin, Dream Syndicate, Mozart

Links: Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism

It’s very windy. Wish I had my kite bag with me. Not like the old days where I was working at home and could bike down to Belmont Shore and fly the afternoon away.

Anyways, listened in on a meeting, talked more about changes, got coffee, talked to the office manager, fixed a thing. I get to work a half-day from home tomorrow. Nice, that.

And now, more money stuff. <sigh> Plus just a ton of distractions.

7:01-and now home. M had to come home sick. S is going to bed early, and E is at a school thing. C is holed up in his room. No lunch for me.

9:16-S is asleep. Quiet. Dinner, computing. 12:00-bed, but first…

Listening to: Suspended Memories, Shambala, Residents, David Hudson, The B-52’s, Roger Eno, Gultskra Artikler, David Salvage, Vidna Obmana, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel, Veruca Salt, Blue Tribe, Firehose, Art Of Noise, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Skinny Puppy, Charles Lucy, Renaldo & The Loaf, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Touch 33, Anugama, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Led Zeppelin, The Residents, Harold Budd, Smashing Pumpkins, Mogwai

Links: 9/11: What Didn’t Change

Looks like the easiest way to pull off high frequency posts is to open the edit and leave it up all the time…

Yet again, financial obligations dominate my thoughts. I wish this was easily solved.

OK-so the kitten came into bed with me, and was chasing me around when I woke up. A money discussion. Easy to work, but I missed my normal train. My laptop crashed. A panic alleviated. Espresso is back. Finishing up the current enhancement. Looks like more mess coming my way…and it was not my mess, though I did miss something. Back home, then off to gamelan with a stop to make a payment. Played bonang, then home early. Dinner, now bed.

Listening to: Gentle Giant, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John McLaughlin, mloski, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Brannan Lane, Chris Breemer, Jefferson Starship, The Upsetters, aodl, Hole, Earth, Megadeth, Christopher Bailey, Gluck, Art Of Noise, Steve Reich, Todd Rundgren, florian fernbacher, Echoes of Nature, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Genesis, Babe The Blue Ox, Anne Clark, Hooverphonic, Metallica, Dutilleux, The Aphex Twin, Filastine, Peter Gabriel, Michael Stearns, Archive, Gabrielle Roth and The Mirrors, Tin Huey, Anne Clark, The Residents, resfilter, War, Debussy, Fripp & Eno, Robert Fripp, Bunny Scott, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Frank Zappa, Beck

Links: Misperceptions About Middle-Class Society, Are We Approaching the End of Human History?

Is it possible that I might get back to daily posts? I’ve never been able to keep it going for long, but this may be it. It makes the summary easier, and also makes it more immediate about my emotional state. Actually not sure if this is a good thing…

11:03-Looks like another average work day ahead. The kitten slept right next to me last night. I woke up and started to roll over, and there he was! He started to play with my feet, and finally scooted off under the bed. I’m glad we coslept all the kids, because I could’ve squashed the little guy.
Made it in under the wire for the 9am meeting-traffic on the 99-the vagaries of taking the bus downtown. Got a quick thing done and deployed. The espresso machine is broken, so regular coffee. I got rewarded for working hard with Friday 1/2 day at home. Woo-hoo!

Fall is definitely here, though Summer is still around. Starting towards the time to begin the inner journey again. The tex thing is interesting. Didn’t seem like the canonical tex that people describe. I mean, a large crowd and someone saying “You’re the first”??? Odd. Maybe it wasn’t tex-I was real sloppy and there were substances involved. Time will bring fullness.

6:31-Home. Having to do a bit of extra work because of a fundamental flaw in the lookup process. Almost done. Easy ride home-made the limited and there was a bus to take me to the regular stop. Kids are OK-S is getting a cold, C has a new adventure-ish game to play and is working on a drawing of the Globe theatre, and M has a new scooter. Tacos for dinner, S doesn’t want to sleep, rush to try to fix something that was OK. Time for bed. But first…

Page 23, sentence 5: “Wrong.”, Making it all Work

Listening to: Djinnestan, Beethoven, Debussy, Godhead, Salam, Coyote Oldman, Steve Roach, spoonPhase, Peter Gabriel, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Venerable Showers of Beauty, X, Peter Gabriel, art bears, Todd Rundgren, The Aphex Twin, Bhagavad Gita, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Lyndsey Cockwell, Rage Against The Machine, Philip Glass , Peter Gabriel, Carrie Yury, Juluka, Philip Glass, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Allan Holdsworth, Rage Against The Machine, Allan Holdsworth, Harold Budd, Police, art bears, Veruca Salt

Links: food52, 8 Portland, Ore., Meals for $8 or Under

I’m going to try to up my frequency. We’ll see. Sunday was church, water communion. Got a big school box from friends, home, nap, busted for inactivity. Dinner, fail to put S down. E almost crashed and she’s sore-went to get painkillers.
Saturday night-late getting tunes for C, M to friends’, get cello for C & look for scooter. Cleaned out all the boys’ clothes and a little in their closet. E went to a friends’.
Today: hard to get up, but I did and got everything done. I actually made it to the train on time, with a sprint. Work-meetings, then a panic that was OK, finally finishing one thing. Doing a demo on Friday.A quiet end to the day-S is getting a cold.

I’m thinking about giving up on church-the education seems to be failing. There’s an unspoken assumption that Christianity is bad, which is contrary to the explicit acceptance of all beliefs. I figure it’s because of reaction formation against the damage caused by bad Christian upbringings. In any case, it’s poisoning, but the other way.

In other news, there’s no other news. We’re again tight on cash. The kitten is adorable, and a Manx.

page 23, sentence 5: “Fertilizers with cadmium are used in agriculture and may leach into water supplies.” Reboot your Brain.

Listening to: Jalikebba Kuyateh & the Toubabs, Genesis, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Clinton, Beethoven, Art Of Noise, Hole, Golden Earring, Brian Eno, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Mickey Hart, Pachelbel, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Babe The Blue Ox, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Biosphere, Mystified, Bill Bruford, Radiohead, Tchaikovsky, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Gamelan, Babe The Blue Ox, Philip Glass, John Lee Hooker, Brian Parnham, Giacomo Puccini, u2, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Aerosmith, Alan Holdsworth, Rage Against The Machine, Albert Ortega, Rage Against The Machine, Jerry Sroka, Brian Eno

Links: Why Kim Kardashian Is the Perfect Icon for Our Sick Society,
12 Theses on Education in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism,
166 Documentaries To Expand Your Consciousness