Year: 2019

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March 21st, 2019

At a school, nighttime, walking through a building. Go into a bathroom and stay there. It’s morning, I have no clothes, walk around looking for them. People start showing up, I grab some random clothes and leave. Walk through campus in odd clothes, meet a friend.

On a porch, talking with Allan Holdsworth about his system. He has his strings tuned to fifths, special ordered gauges, extra reinforced necks. I say it’s a lot like Fripp’s. He says yeah-you have to relearn everything.

Run into a bathroom with a guy. We close the doors and he gets me. Done, sit on the toilet.

In the woods with a bunch of kids. We sit in a ledge and it flies across a gorge, and sticks into the edge. The young ones scream and we go back. Work harder and the ledge goes all the way across. In another woods, need to eat. I conjure up food-chickens, grain, etc. for the people and animals. Walk over to help someone.

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March 20th, 2019

In a meeting at school, trying to get our chairs arranged so they look nice from above. I scoot mine back and forth to get it in a semi-circle. Someone is asked to come down and talk-she dances around trying to find an X that suits her-the floor is covered with them. She goes back to her seat and talks from there. She’s really loud.

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DST bites. That is all.

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Friday morning at work. Doing budget, TA. Feeling meh. It is Friday, though. I need to think of a blog topic. Niece is visiting for Thanksgiving.

Foggy Monday. And cold-frost on the rooftops. Pretty chill weekend. W/o Fri. & Sun., as usual. Moving forward on t’ai chi-starting third section, #68… E went to chiro on Sat., laid up in bed w/back problems, solo shop, not a thing, though not from lack of effort. Up late, skipped church, cleaning instead. Home inspection Weds. S’s room needs cleaning.

Tue. PM-at the end of a work day. Got stuff done today. Still worried about engine catalog go-live-looks like a memory leak. Emptied out S’s room last night-all the stuff is in the hall, all the clothes are on the bed. Now to put it all back in, tidied, so the inspector won’t have a cow. Finished up the T.A. application, except for E’s W2 and paystubs.

Weds. afternoon-turned into a sunny day. Got stuff done. S’s room is tidy! All the clothes are put away-S really did a fine job. And the inspector guy didn’t even look in there. W/o, the usual-I think my knee might be improving-I know my shape is. Up to #71 of 113-it’s all single whip, move, single whip. T.A. is done except for email w/pay stubs. Gamelan tonight.

Thurs., need coffee. Been getting less than 7 1/2 hours sleep, and I’m feeling it. Supposed to meet with rep today, but no invite yet, and she just walked right past me. Late to gamelan-very long line at the gas station. Did imbal, the rest was the usual. Thurs. PM-so, we’re making the change tonight that crashed our app in Jan. I’m worried. Web service guy says it should be fine, but…

Fri. afternoon, time to go home-I was up at 6, monitoring our app. Fine all day-bouncing the servers didn’t hurt.

Here we are, Weds., at home, no gamelan because of the snow that’s not there. Pretty normal weekend, a little not wanting to do stuff, took the bus to church, w/o & t’ai chi, out of $$$, as usual. Up early Mon., all OK, but had to bounce things last night-memory isn’t getting freed up. We’re taking another regroup on t’ai chi-up to 78. We’ve reviewed up to 94, but it’s not sticking. Just like the snow-we had some over the weekend and Monday, and some last night that actually stayed around. It snowed some during today, but not enough to stay. And don’t get me started on politics. A long time I said that I was going to stay away from that, because it would swamp the blog, and tons of other people bloviate about it. And no one cares about my opinions anyways. I’m better off talking about Anthroposophy and t’ai chi. TA got denied, but E complained and wrote an appeal. We’ll see. I added one sentence and did grammar & spelling. Did the same for M’s essay.

Friday afternoon. Looking forward to a week of no $$$, again. A thing? Probably not. Have to make changes to the TA. Not much else-the app is running fine, got things done. I think I’m clearer on the latest t’ai chi moves. Not much else.

Monday evening, almost bedtime. Cleaned this weekend, drove around, bus to and from church with S. App is behaving normally. Moving desk Weds. Everything else much the same-we’re pausing at move 90 for a week. 113 is the end, so we’re at 80%. We’ve made remarkable progress in 2 months.

Weds. afternoon, almost time to leave. It’s been snowing all day-don’t know if there’s gamelan yet. I’m all moved over to the new cube, but no stuff on the walls yet. Not much else-I messed up my left hip last night. Moving ahead a little on t’ai chi-but still holding at 90.

Thursday afternoon. At my new cube, it’s not bad. Easier on my eyes, need to have the second monitor mounted. Skipped gamelan-just too cold and snowy. Hip still hurts.

Friday evening, on the train. Got tickets for Earth and Claypool Lennon Delirium. Woo-hoo! Raise wasn’t what I asked for, but I don’t have to work during shutdowns, which is sweet. Not much else-moving forward in t’ai chi, slowly. Hip still hurts, but less. Paid bills. Weekend-sleep.

Midday Monday. Very tired-daylight savings time-happily dreaming away when the alarm went off, something I rarely do. Weekend was OK-w/o, t’ai chi-we’re up to 96, sort of. Took C & gf to a play in Gresham, drove around, had Del Taco. No church-S is sick.

Wednesday afternoon, waiting for troublesome software to stop being troublesome. Restarting helped. Otherwise same ‘ol-signed the contract. Still having trouble adjusting to DST-waking up to my alarm. W/o-the usual, hip still hurts some, so cardio is limited to bike and elliptical, have to lay off leg curls a bit. I’m having to do that for extension because of my knee-I’m doing very light weights slowly with high reps. It seems to be pretty effective, a nice change of pace too. T’ai chi: we’re up to 100! 13 to go- Still a bit fuzzy, but we’re getting there. S went back to school today.

Thurs. I think I’ll call this, and now it’s Friday. Def. going to call this, plus no header. A month this time.

Links. brighter side: animals having fun, ducks love peas, eagle’s eye view. Not so bright: everything else.

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March 14th, 2019

Go into a room, there’s a girl there-we connect, and I spread out a huge heart made of foil. We get under it and start going at it.

At a car wash, go inside the wash, try to avoid the brushes and water and foam. Walk outside, some guy is threatening me-I beat him up.

On a plane landing at L.A.-it’s flying super low and just barely clearing buildings. Finally fly downtown and land. Get out and it’s odd and sandy-Venus?

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March 13th, 2019

At a stadium, they’re selling it. We talk about how much it would cost per month. Walk through the office, there’s a big cage with old stuff in it. Talk some more, there’s odd stuff in the cage, like a mini bicycle. Go outside, they’re having a meeting about the sale. Some boy comes running in, with people chasing him. I catch him and wrap up his arms and legs with tricky martial arts holds. They cuff him to me and we go to his room. His friend tries to escape with him, but a handler comes and cuffs us again-plastic this time. He injects him with something, but misses and gets me. He gets him and puts the cuffs on. We talk about music and he likes grunge bands. I recommend Babe the Blue Ox-ask him if he knows the reference. I boast that I saw Oasis in ‘86 in Manchester.

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March 11th, 2019

Just offstage, watching Tony Levin play a bunch of instruments, including some odd drum-like foam thing. There are a bunch of keyboards there, and I want to play drums. The song finishes, and we go over and talk to him.

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March 9th, 2019

My back is hurting, and Judy B says she’ll help. I lean against the wall and she pushes on it. We go into the bedroom and she climbs up on top. Some guy comes in and says it’s his place, and I say it’s mine.

At work, a system is packed up to ship to the Caymans. I put a thumb drive in. We’re opening up the pallet and someone is explaining all the systems there. He finds the thumb drive. I start up the server and get it going on the config. I have to restart to get the network registered.

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March 7th, 2019

At a kite thing, getting set up. Watch someone’s umbrella blow all around, and think it’s mine, but it isn’t. Walk down to my spot and start arranging things, and think about tying the umbrella down. It starts to rain, and I start gathering up my gear. Walk down to the parking lot-having trouble hanging on to all my stuff.

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March 6th, 2019

Driving right behind a motorcycle, I’m staying with it. Go to pass, it goes in front of me. They finally get off, and I continue to the end of the freeway-it’s a dead end and there’s a camp there. I turn around, and the people there are trying to show me stuff and asking for stuff. I start back the other way.

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March 4th, 2019

E has just told me that she’s going for a week at the Four Seasons by herself. It costs $2,500. I’m livid, and she says that I told her last year that she could do this once a year. I yell about rent and finances, etc.

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March 3rd, 2019

On the bus, realize I have to go the other way. Get off, walk across the street and get on the next one.

At a convention, walk through the hall. Someone has cool blank books.

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February 27th, 2019

In a dorm that’s empty/abandoned. Move my stuff into a module, try to make it not spill out the front, as a storm is coming and I need to close the door. Walk across the open area in the middle to where the kitchen is, start arranging. Someone comes up and asks me for something.

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February 24th, 2019

Walking down the street to a housewarming. Go in, drop off a gift and leave. Pass by a fancy house-the stars of a TV show (Charmed) are living next to each other. Go into the lobby of another house/hotel. Walk through the pool area and upstairs. Go back down another way to meet someone.

At work, someone has an old 8″ floppy and drive. Put it in and start up. The computer is set up oddly-try to get it working. There’s another set of disks that we need to read, but someone stapled them together. I show it to the person needing the data and complain.

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February 19th, 2019

Driving across a hill, trying to get out of the rain. A huge wind blows all the clouds away, and I can see a wall of rain on the other side of the valley. Wonder about what’s happening, and whether the rain will come back this way.

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Time just moves onward

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OK, I’m calling this. I didn’t finish the book I was reading almost a month ago, politics is a disaster, but I got paid, I think. That and FA for school will help. We did a thing at church to identify where you need to go, and one I came up with was a topic for blog posts. You know, like other bloggers do. Failed. Maybe next time. Time just moves onward, and I’m just trying to stay afloat. I might make it this month.

Tuesday, on the bus. At least I’m not stuck to seat 38 on Phydeaux 3… Now waiting for a train. OK, E missed her alarm, busy at work, M and S swam yesterday. L.A. teachers’ strike is over, shutdown continues. King Crimson isn’t coming to the PNW. That’s it for now.

Nearing the end of a busy day. Still no closer to a solution on work issues. Other stuff is moving forward, though. Gamelan tonight-I haven’t practiced suling at all.

Friday afternoon, picked up tickets for my middle and his gf. Not much else-need to tidy this weekend more. Gamelan was OK, not much else-my right shoulder is bothering me. Didn’t clean much, just enough to stem the tide. Need to practice more-not progressing on suling.

Sat. evening-working for an hour or so. Monday, noonish, at work. Tuesday morning, on the train. Still Tuesday, noonish. Wednesday morning, at work. I got nothin’, no $$$ either. Need to, need to…(fill in the blanks) Thursday morning, at work. And Friday morning at work. I really have got nothing to say.

Sat. night, watching skiing, on the iPad. The usual-w/o last night, t’ai chi-we’re holding for a little at 48 to solidify our memory. Slept in a bit, crockpot oatmeal for the family, espresso and chill. Tidy, laundry, bathrooms, vacuum, sweep porch, put stuff in outside closet, shop. E and S went swimming. Pizza for dinner. Working on load tests.

Monday, late morning, at work. Cold and rainy-E is reporting wintry mix at home. Seattle got some, but none here. Yesterday-rice for breakfast, C didn’t eat his, so lunch for me! Church, back and forth, binz, shop. Soup for dinner. W/o-worked hard. Getting more solid on the sequence for t’ai chi-this is non-trivial-we’re at #51. Snow is starting-S really wanted more-made object spells for a snow day.

Weds. morning, at work. Thurs. afternoon, almost gone. Snow over the weekend? We’ll see. Actually, it looks like snow for a week…a lot of snow. Friday afternoon, trying to juggle several tasks, waiting for the next big project.

Weds. morning, again. So the snow didn’t happen, but our washing machine sprung a leak Monday night and there was water everywhere. Got it all cleaned up, the maintenance guys fixed it. Pretty quiet weekend. Didn’t do much-a bit of tidying, oatmeal & rice breakfasts, wedding Sat., church Sun, up early for work Mon. W/o-working hard, my shoulder is improved, left knee still not OK-running seems fine, but I absolutely can’t do leg extensions. We’re up to the end of the second section in t’ai chi. Longest section to go. They want me to move my desk, but I think I’ll move back to where the test of the team is instead. As usual, short of $$$, but got past due bills paid. Long chat with my niece about spiritual stuff and her. She’s going down a very familiar path.

Thursday, on the train. Gamelan last night-new version of an old piece, played bonang panerus. April was alongside, and commenting how I was playing all sorts of extra notes. I was: “I’m playing more like a drummer-ghost notes and rhythmic.” I don’t know if it bugged her or if she liked it. Suling is progressing slowly-I can play 3 notes of the riff she gave me-the 4th is a bear. It’s the first note fingering, but up a 3rd.

Links. brighter side: rescuing animals, sea legs. Not so bright: everything else.