My exciting life, this place
Walk next to a river and into a field. E says how much she likes her sandals in the wet and muddy. I say that’s what they were made for, so, yeah. Walk into a tunnel.
Talking to some guy about joining the gym, he leaves and I look at his computer. Go under the desk and trace back the cords. Play around with making our muscles huge.
At home, trying to get cream back into its container-piles of it on the table, and I’m unsqueezing to get it back in. M is griping about C and money.
Driving up a hill, worrying about making it to the gas station at the top. Stop on the side about 3/4 ways up, some truck comes behind me then passes. Look at my phone.
Getting ready to move out of our college house. A bunch of stuff is still left. I go through it and find a few little things to keep. We talk about just leaving everything else on the curb. Go through stuff in another room-drawers of paper and books.
Walk along a stream. It’s snowy, and go up a hill to get there. Have to turn back, as it runs out. Go through some trees and a swampy area.
At J.D. S.’s house. Walk around, tell someone about the hidden staircase by the kitchen. Go up to the 3rd floor and look at the exit. It’s really tight and I don’t remember it like that. Go out to the porch and walk around with a disabled child. Get ready to leave.
In a kitchen, cleaning up. Pick up a wad of money from the counter. Make a pan with piles of ground corn. Say I’m going to make a dish with it. Walk outside talking about how much work I do and want everyone else to do some. E gets mad and I walk back inside.
By the forest, walk past a fallen tree that people have made into a house with the tree as the roof beam. Walk back to the car and drive down to a driveway-almost miss it and slide around trying to stop. Another car is coming and I back into a spot to let him by.
With a bunch of kids, line up to get on a bus. It comes, and I get on and sit on a bench by the window. I put my backpack on the floor and try to get my legs next to it. No go, so I rest my leg on the backpack.
Outside 30700, a friend has a bunch of coke and I want to buy some, but E doesn’t. We go into the kitchen and I have the bag and try to hide it, but it’s full of air so I put a towel over it. Doesn’t work, and E bugs me about it.
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Pretty quiet Weds. night-brie & pâté for dinner, S went to a joint birthday party and just got back sunburned, updated my portrait animation, uploading to storage unit. Need to sit at the keyboard (didn’t happen-picked up C instead). Maybe tomorrow (if I’m not too wiped out). We need to paint S’s classroom this weekend.
I only rarely post political stuff (I used to), but this is a pretty cogent analysis: The President as Pimple.
Thursday first thing. Very tired-there was an electrical storm at 3, lasted for a good half-hour. One bolt was very close. I got up on time this morning, but bleh-really tired. Mid-Thurs., I’m dragging. Getting stuff done, but my brain is super foggy. Took an aspirin, had some chocolate-helped a bit, but I have a recurring tension headache too, hence the aspirin. Time to go.
Friday morning. Long weekend. Paid bills. Not horrendous, feeling OK, but that could be the coffee talking. I’m choosing to ignore all the bad stuff happening in the wider world. Going to paint the classroom tonight.
Tuesday noon. Back at work after Labor Day. Pretty mellow weekend-painted the classroom Friday, checked Sat, lazy-shop, took S to friends’, church Sun., pulled tape at school, tidy with M on Mon., S& E went to school for finishing up, no w/o at all during the weekend. Watched hurricane coverage-big, stalled out right on top of the Bahamas. Looks like it’s heading north now.
Weds. morning, very tired, on a scrum call. E fell off a chair at school last night while putting up drapes and hit her elbow on a bench. We spent the evening in the ER-nothing broken. Home, clean up, shower, so not in bed until 12:30. Woke up a few times-E realized she hurt her ankle too, and is achy all over. Good w/o, though, and dinner was yummy too.
Thursday, coming up on noon. Finishing up my stuff. E is still messed up from her fall. Pretty quiet otherwise-thinking about life and what the point is. Anyways, time for a “break”…and lunch, and my stuff is done. Dreamed about Stacey Royster…Woke up very cold, rolled over into the comforter and right back to sleep-aaaah, fall is coming. The storm is moving up the Atlantic coast, and the Bahamas got flattened. Went through one of those in the 80’s when I was living in the Cayman Islands-Gilbert, so I know from storms.
Friday, morning, listening to live gamelan-Pujangga Laras doing an 1000 day memorial. A sublime Jineman Kandheg. Not much else-signed up for benefits, but I’m not sure it took-need to check. I think I’ll call this-at about a week tempo. Need to practice-just keep having chores and laziness get in the way. Refactored a bit-missed two things and put in batch inserts, a few more changes as well.
Links/viddys-brighter side:
Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.
Page 23, sentence 5: “Composed of molecules called amino acids, which are the building blocks of life, proteins play a major role in every cell in the body.”, The only 127 things you need, “As members complete the Steps, Personal Power Cards are awarded (explained in Part Two, Step 6 of this book).”, The Change Your Life Challenge
Hanging out at the mall with Stacia R. Walk home and she sits on my keyboard to look at my bookshelf. I ask her to move off it. She pulls out a photo album and looks through it. She asks me who someone is, and I say it’s a nun from when we were in confirmation class.
In a truck with Bill Eisele, driving up and down rough roads, and over bridges that are coming apart. I’m worried, but we make it ok. Walk into a huge house, and walk around talking to everyone. Todd O arrives, and it’s his house-he’s looking to sell everything. We all avoid him. Go down and outside and look at the hill-Rick N wants to ski it. Go back in and everyone is leaving. Doug L stays and I talk to him.
At a restaurant, going through our change to pay. A bunch falls on the floor and I pick it up. There are some odd large coins.
Go into a meeting room at Quest? They’re finishing up and leaving. Tim K is there. I roll over a chair and he tells me that he’s leaving-just can’t do the commute from South OC to Santa Monica anymore. Sit there and arrange my resume-putting in the jobs I had that didn’t work out. Have a few pieces of paper with them on them. Walk out, and someone is having trouble with their kids-pick one up and carry him out-he falls asleep on my shoulder.
In a beach town, walk up a street covered with sand. Go across a small plaza and under some trees. Go back down with a skateboard, have to avoid the sand. Turn around and come back up, have to walk the last bit, thinking about how old skateboards behaved vs new ones.
On top of a huge pile of books. Start to climb down, a cat is there, try to keep him from chasing a bug. He gets away anyways, and I keep climbing down. Get to the bottom and start kissing my girlfriend.
On top of a tower, looking at 3d interactive maps on my phone-trying to go somewhere and looking at Mt. Hood and casinos to the south and a driving route. Get dizzy and worry about falling, slide down the tower. Look at a history book and some rocks with figures on it.
In a big meeting with a big company. Some guy talks about how they’re using several buildings downtown, and someone asks if it’s just one floor, and he replies it’s the whole building. I ask if they have any IT jobs, and someone says yeah, but it’s a crazy environment.
Go into a big room, someone has opened a portal and demons and such are streaming in. I leave and slam the door on several of them. Go back in and start trying to get them to leave and close the portal.
Watch band strike the set. They’re deconstructing very efficiently-mikes first, cables, piped things, fittings. Go side stage and down the stairs. Some guy is there and I walk away with him.
Climb a steep roof-going to get info about some school thing. It’s info about a test and how to take it. Leave by sliding down the hill on the other side. Go to someone’s house, they talk about huffing and have open bags. I take one and light it, then we blow out the liquid into flame..
At a big music store, go to the guitars and drop off mine for service. Walk to the drum section and look at all the cool instruments and artwork. Walk back to the guitars and look around. Look for mine and it’s not there. Pick another old one behind the counter.
Please tip the writer. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I’ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design/development-my rates aren’t bad, and I’m more than pretty good at it. Java/database/AWS/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!
Friday afternoon, still sitting. Paid some bills-more to come to get caught up-probably be mid-September before I’m done. Trying to keep the house clean. Need to pick up my new bike-probably the 14th, buy gear the week before. Getting through books-lots on my library list, lots at home. Practicing instruments needs to happen too. I’d like to get an inventory as well.
Monday, noon. Pretty quiet weekend-good w/o Fri. & Sun., cleaning & dishes and laundry got done. Not much else-binz, no church. E has pain issues. S was up late last night.
Wednesday-I think I’ll call it today. It’s been very hot, busy at work. Good w/o-M helped with negatives. I think running messes me up for a day-my hips are sore and I’m generally achy that day after. Anyways, not much else, politics is a mess, everything else is just time moving forward. S has her shared birthday party today-not a good day for it. She get upset really easily these days when she doesn’t get her way. Boys are fine.
Links/viddys-brighter side:
Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.
Page 23, sentence 5: “Baah?!”, The Alchemist, “Reluctantly, he got in the car.”, The Shaolin Way.
Go around a little river in mini gondolas.
Play with a bunch of little kids.
In a parking lot, drive to the back and turn around. Pick up the family and leave, park closer to school. Walk up the path, talk about things that have changed, Kreger has a big add-on. Walk through to the central quad.
At 30700, go upstairs and into the bathroom. Dump a bunch a poop in the sink and start cleaning it up. Start listening to The Melvins with the band-need it louder, but parents will get upset.
Please tip the writer. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I’ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design/development-my rates aren’t bad, and I’m more than pretty good at it. Java/database/AWS/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!
Friday afternoon, pretty quiet. Getting stuff done. Time to go home.
Monday noon, not much going on. Waiting on specs. Quiet weekend-good w/o’s, t’ai chi, shopping, church, not much else. Got a new pair of shoes. Got S a new ukulele for her birthday. Didn’t do much cleaning either-just sort of laid around.
Tuesday, noon, again. Trying to test stuff, not perfect. Pretty normal stuff last night-dinner, laundry, dishes, etc. Woke up 6ish, a bit tired right now. Writing tests. S’s birthday party got postponed.
Wednesday, noon. Pretty mellow-working on jUnit testing. S had friends over yesterday, got sunburned. Good w/o, but M hurt his shoulder, so no help with negatives. Shorter duration t’ai chi, balance was a bit off. My hips are a little achy today. S slept in our closet. Didn’t clean or do anything else, so the kitchen is a bit of a mess, and there’s random stuff all over the house-need to do all of that this evening plus laundry. No gamelan-don’t know when we’ll restart, as Mindy is pregnant. Also need to Sno-Seal my new shoes. The problem is that I have a limited amount of energy, and work sucks all of it up, so I make and eat dinner, then lay around until bed, AND I’m going to bed late and waking up early, which doesn’t help. Plus also not much gets done by anyone else-I’m really the only one who consistently cleans up. Need to update the “me over time” slideshow-I have my id picture… Oregon changed their tax policy-woo-hoo!
And here it is, Thursday afternoon. Busy, well, not busy. Going to get paid to learn about the environment. No worries-hopefully something will come up (and it did). Cleaned up last night-kitchen, living room, a load of laundry. S slept in the closet again.
Links/viddys. brighter side:
Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.
Page 21, sentence 5: “Shorter strings or pipe organ tubes had their tops closer to the ground, so these were called the “low” notes (as in “low to the ground,”) and the longer strings and tubes-reaching up toward Zeus and Apollo-were called the “high” notes.”, This is Your Brain on Music
Look out the window, then lift up and fly out of it.
In bed, hear some people outside. Go to take a look and stumble/get tangled up in cords on the floor. Make it to the window and look out. There are people going up to the next floor.
Hanging out with Neil Peart, talking about drumming, demonstrate that the Kronos has awesome organ patches. Play a few lines, really fast.
Getting to play some game. In a big room with a bunch of puffy blocks. There are small people in the game. The opposing team is trying to listen in on our plans, so we go close to their side and do the same. They try to get in our way-we’re climbing over the blocks.
On the roof of a building, trying to get in-lift up a cover and slide in. Something has happened-take the elevator down and try to leave out a back door. There are people coming for us, try to slide around a corner, but no way out.