Ramblings

I arbitrarily decided to stop working at 4pm so I would have time to run to my post office box, then to the banks before they closed, and then to Dairy Queen – which was a mistake, because it was still too much volume of food, too little nutrition of food, and except for the…

Sitting on the patio, today facing south. Laptop, keyboard, trackball, all in front of me. Power cord, this time. To my right, wood is smoking in some pretense of a fire, but it serves to keep the mosquitoes away as the evening has become rather still. To the east, a huge supercell looms, lighten...

I just proposed. In a dream. I'm only remembering the last part, but I remember that throughout this dream, she was someone I was arguing with quite often -- they were good natured arguments. She's a strong woman, both physically and intellectually, however somewhat slight of frame. In dreamtime,...

This is as much a Keep-alive post as anything. I've a respiratory infection, or cold, or flu, or something. I was home from work today, and slept for most of it. Thus I am journaling at 5 til midnight. It's very hard to sleep when you've slept most of the day. Not to much profound…

There is a yet-unsatisfied creative bone within me. I have visions of sculpture, carving away plaster or stone to reveal the thing within. Of dragons made from concrete or metal. Colored pencil sketches on 3x3 foot Crescent board. Things that I did to pass classes in college now appeal to some de...

Still here. Things chewing on my time: - web project for a client - web project for CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) - ...CERT. I'm now one of the Leadership team by default. I'm helping to write a Constitution for the group, and hope to have "real" representative elections in January. In...

I think I've found my theme song for the year. I was tooling around this lunch hour running errands, and a song came on the radio that I've heard a couple of times lately on this station, but have never caught the name of. Actually, I had never heard it start to finish, because my…

I stare out my office window and despite my vertical blinds, I'm squinting. A bright white sun in a pale blue sky bleaches the green of the grass and evergreens, fades the rust of fallen leaves. A few cold spells have caused the leaves to drop, but the weather remains warm and our lawns are…

Another note-leaver on another journal made the point: I shouldn't go reading other people's journals, until I've written my entry first. The reading affects/effects my mood, my mode, my whatever...and then I don't know what to write. It seems forced somehow. Plus, I've run out of time. The Fern ...

I've not forgotten about this place. Nor any of my friends/cojournalists. What I have is too many irons in the fire. This is different from being "too busy". Too busy is a condition of the rat-race. Its running around trying to catch up, trying to stay up. It represents the energy wasted switchin...