January just flew by-I think it was because I was sick for a week. Or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and time starts to compress. No matter. Life goes on, my kids get older-Matt’s going to start kindergarten next fall! I move more towards something that I don’t quite know what it is yet. Sorta like the song “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story (I prefer the Utopia version, btw). Anyways, Friday is here, not much going on this weekend-class, church-we should get out and do something else too. Dunno yet.
The past week: we went to the Bowers museum Sat. It’s nice, but small. I bruised my right index finger palm joint playing drums at the Kidseum. Fun, but ouch. They had a singing rock and a replica of the Mayan burial slab from Palenque-I love that piece. There was an OWL pre-meeting at the MV UU church. Matt’s going to go every Sunday for an hour or so until May. Important stuff, that OWL. Check it out if you have kids-you will need to bring sex up at some point, and OWL is perfect for it. We visited a Waldorf school for Matt. It’s a charter school in the San Juan district. I like it-I wish I had gone there K-8 then to U.S. Absolutely the best of both worlds. Look into Waldorf if you’re trying to find a school. Much more wholistic, but be warned-there are issues, and I would hesitate sending my kids to a purist one-they delay reading and there’s some doctrinal teachings that I’m not really OK with. Having said that, I like the school-excited, smart teachers, a looser curriculum than the purists, but it’s a charter and they’ve moved 3 times in 5 years. We’ll see how it goes-only 25 spots available. Busy working on Section 508 stuff. I got an email from the ethno chick at Claremont-the gamelan group is full. <sigh>
State of the Union speech this week-again we didn’t watch, and watched the Daily show. Uck. So much to get upset about. The SS stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. Iraq, detainees, torture, propaganda, suppression, the list is endless. Bush supporters must be like the 3 monkeys, led by one as well. rrrr. I’m listening to “Blows Against the Empire”. “Say goodbye to Amerika, say hello to the garden.” Uplifting stuff. And I haven’t even got to side 2.
Not much on the computer side. I got my SCSI disk back-got a new ribbon cable, fiddled with the placement on the chain, fiddled with adapter settings and voila, it’s back! Picked up cubeshow but can’t use it b/c of my video problems, got an opensource drum machine, asterisk, magnolia, object caml, zope. Also the Solaris x86 Oracle 10g, but it won’t install on version 5.10. Oh well.
Imbolc was Weds. We didn’t do anything. I did a bitty thing. I need to dive into the GD lecture, but I’m reading Consilience and the kids eat up my time. Waldorf celebrates these festivals. Yay. I was thinking about what Paul Kantner writes about in Hijack “Only the sun knows what we really need to know/Only the sun holds the secret/And more than human can we be/Cause human’s truly locked/To this planetary circle” Maybe I should do the whole sun worship thing-it really is the center of all things on this circle. Without the sun we aren’t. I wonder if those secrets are accessible to man’s consciousness. The Sun is so vastly different than us.
The Super Bowl’s coming up-woo hoo. The only good thing is going to be a kite thing beforehand that the Gombergs are doing. I don’t like watching football or pretty much any other sport, I don’t care about the commercials, either. Ossie Davis died-he was pretty old. The Michael Jackson trial started-what a sad commentary on our culture when a molestation trial is bigger news than everything else. But after O.J. and all the other celebrity crap, what else is new? I wonder what the Sun thinks about this.