Year: 2016

“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” The transition looks like a mess-they’re way behind Obama’s timeline.

So, gamelan on Fri., got the Kronos on Sat.-it’s a huge beast. 5 ft. wide and 50 pounds, but awesome. I’ve been playing it almost every night-want to up my piano skills. Another thing in Beaverton-the traffic on 99W was horrendous. Picked up E in the Hawthorne. Sun., church, picked up S in NW from musical practice. Got ice cream. Cleaning, shop. Mon., Tue. , Weds., gamelan, Thurs., Fri.-it’s all the same. Rainy and cold. E is under the weather.

A gamelan weekend-practice Fri. night, took E to a church thing Sat. AM, cleaning, pick E up, gamelan, pack, unpack, play, pack, unpack, party. E went to the ER with a hurting tummy during the gig, but nothing wrong. Slept in Sun., S to musical, musical, shop, dinner, sleep. Mon., work, home, dinner, fold clothes, read to S, sleep.

And now the long Thanksgiving weekend is over. No gamelan, quiet Weds., cleaning, quiet Thurs., talked to parents and sister, went through boxes, purged a few things, but not much. Shop Fri., Fry’s, rainy. Xmas craft fair Sat., no church Sun., picked up a few more presents in Gresham with E, shop, home dinner, S to bed, some work, bed, woke up a bunch, didn’t write down dreams. Up today, to work. Thinking about getting back into Anthro exercises and work on InnerDev, T’ai Chi too? We’ll see.

Really. I guess the big news is that we now have a vulgar buffoon liar con artist for president, who has never held public office. He stiffs his contractors/workers and files lawsuits at the drop of a hat. Don’t get me started on the sexual harassment allegations and actual admissions of guilt. And that just not my opinion. That’s what the NY elite have called him for years-he’s anathema in the high social circles he failed for years to break into. Multiple people who have worked with him say the same, and some of it is on tape. Now he’s in the White House-what a disaster the next four years are going to be. I have no idea what’s going to happen, but it can’t be good. And how much of a mess is going to need to be cleaned up, I have no idea either-we’re definitely going to be going backwards-the reactionaries have won. And Hill got the popular vote, but not the electoral one. Second time in 16 years, and 110 year gap between the last two times. Here’s the voting map with %’s-purple means evenly divided. It’s definitely more red/blue polarized than last time, especially in the Midwest. It’s “vote for the outsider” time, even though he is about as much of an outsider as Hill is.

2016: 2012:(sourced from here)

E is a mess because of it, and they’re in the streets here in Portland and across the country. It’s called the First Amendment, folks. And there’s a drive to get the electors to be faithless.

Anyways, work is fine, gamelan got moved to Fri., waiting on the Kronos. I have the money, and it’s just a matter of time.

We’re coming up on Halloween, my 18th wedding anniversary, and E’s birthday. S is excited, E has a costume, I have no idea about the boys…

Week is normal, wet, going to bed a little earlier. Gamelan Weds., to bed late-some hacker is trying to break into my Raspberry…cut off the DMZ access.

Weekend: Fri.-Halloween Enchantment at school-E was Lady Winter and a hit, Sat.-cleanup at school, much the same-didn’t clean much, shop, Sun.-church, cleaned a little. Mon., S to friends’ for Halloween. The usual-no one showed up in our complex…

Going to change up all my music stuff-selling it all except the QY and guitar stuff and getting a Korg Kronos-there’s one in the PDX area for cheap! We’ll see.

M is visiting U of O on Friday. Both boys have Weds., Thu., Fri. off. Gamelan, we had an evacuation…Cubs won the World Series while we were playing. Watched the game in compressed mode on Thurs. Took M to school early Fri., caught a earlier bus. Finally got my work stuff working. On to the next. Home, sleep, S is sick. Sat., went for E’s tattoo, Ikea-absolutely packed, hung out-worked on the QY for a bit. No Kronos yet (but a new one popped up!). Sun., church, cleaning. Woo-hoo! House is quite tidy. S is still sick, ear infection. Almost missed the bus, missed the second bus-walked 17 blocks until the bus came. My sis refriended me… Got stuff done-once you figure something out, it’s pretty easy to repeat, but it looks like things are changing.

 

Ok, it’s lame, but it may be quite true come Election Day. Trump just got hit hard by a live mike recording. Just read a very cerebral piece by Giroux.

So, another week over. Gonna come home to a messy house. Guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow??? Going to the beach and flying kites at the AKA convention? No, I’ll be cleaning. We got a new vacuum, so there’s that.

But at least I’m getting things done at work. Messy there too-the joy of IT, rather than R&D…I need to work on the startup stuff.

…and I didn’t clean much-the kitchen and that’s it. There’s a huge pile of laundry. Instead of flying kites, we went to a tattoo expo and got one each-I now have a small bee on my left shoulder. Look up the meaning of bees… I want to get the rose touched up and put a wooden cross behind it…Look up the meaning of rosy crosses…and Steiner. Church Sunday, shopping with C. Work and work and that’s it. And gamelan and rainy-big rainy and windy.

Trump is getting hammered by women coming out as harassment victims. I think the election is now over. And he’s yelling that the election is rigged. This could end badly.

E went to the ER-high BP, but pancreas stuff too. Took C to a new Godzilla movie. Weekend-cleaning, church, shopping. It was very windy and rainy too. S made a few of her weather videos. Going to try to keep the house clean. Did a load of laundry, kept the kitchen clean-those are the major bits. Weds., gamelan, a building blew up in downtown, last debate-the usual, didn’t do any house work. Woke up suddenly at 6:38, in the middle of a dream. Work, home-the house is staying clean. And it did over the weekend too. Cleaned the car, got new shoes, church, shopping, not much else.