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When the ducks get out of row, defy the leader and make your own flight plan. Put some distance between you and the turbulence of your acquaintant misfortunes. Study the tea leaves, both good and bad fortunes, in a different mug. When your view from the high dive has become hazy, find a new jumping off point. Get your feet wet from outside the box. If both oars hit the water with slight variations of the same cadence, see just where straying from the shortest distance between A to B takes you before buying new ones. If your zig and zag have become misaligned, try a magic 8-ball or a charming poppee thingy to help with some important decisions!
You can always make your plans in pencil and write over them in pen when they are somewhat realized. If you need to write in the "space reserved for U.S. postal service" go for it…
Thanks for using the FORCE
me
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Blah blah blah
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Today is an empty day. I'm just now washing up on the beach. A long way around the other side of the first day of a short week. Hard to see the progress of making progress. Both oars in the water with slight variations of the same cadence. Not making a strait line towards autopilot hours of home!
Today is an empty day. I'm just now washing up on the beach. A long way around the other side of the first day of a short week. Hard to see the progress of making progress. Both oars in the water with slight variations of the same cadence. Not making a strait line towards autopilot hours of home!
MY PET BLOG and Poppies for the vets
MY PET BLOG
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1100 views of my blog as of this morning. Wow, that is a lot of logging in by my one reader! I hope that all who come here enjoy or at least they don't feel like the time spent reading my stuff is 3 minutes of their life that they can't get back!?
Poppies for the vets, as we take a day to remember all who have died or were injured in the line of duty as well as all with the fortune to come home in one piece and all who serve us currently. War and conflict are not be the best answer, but it seems to be what the powers that be feel is best. So thanks again for those who do the dirty work of our seat of power types! God bless you all
me
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1100 views of my blog as of this morning. Wow, that is a lot of logging in by my one reader! I hope that all who come here enjoy or at least they don't feel like the time spent reading my stuff is 3 minutes of their life that they can't get back!?
Poppies for the vets, as we take a day to remember all who have died or were injured in the line of duty as well as all with the fortune to come home in one piece and all who serve us currently. War and conflict are not be the best answer, but it seems to be what the powers that be feel is best. So thanks again for those who do the dirty work of our seat of power types! God bless you all
me
"30 years of the FORCE"
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Well 30 years ago, a seminal moment in my life, the release of Star Wars. The first movie I've ever seen, we missed the 1st ten minutes so at my suggestion we stayed and watched it again. Then came the toys, dibs on Han Solo, I'm always Han!(Boba Fet was my 2nd choice) My friend Lars had almost all the ships and cool figures and he had a garden that was perfect for playing Return of the Jedi. The wood chips, the bushes, and the big little tree. It was a close approximation of Endor. He also had the battery powered blasters so we would also make use of the near by spots to play out various scenes. Jazz hands good times!!!
Then there was the premiere of Star Wars on HBO. My dad, mother, sister and me in the family room eating freshly air popped pop corn, watching the first airing since leaving theaters. Many many many cable viewing later, VHS and all the various DVD releases, it is still close to my heart. New Hope, Empire and Jedi that is, Don't care much for the Jar Jar era episodes. Oh well batting .500 does get you in the Hall of Fame!
When they rereleased New Hope, I went with some friends and there were a few people dressed as characters. I would have been Han. At the end when they were handing out the medallions, someone actually got up and soluted the screen!
Many thanks to Han, Chewy, Luke, Leia, Yoda, Darth, Old Ben, Boba Fet... MAY THE FORCE BE THEM ALWAYS!
Thanks for using the FORCE
me
Well 30 years ago, a seminal moment in my life, the release of Star Wars. The first movie I've ever seen, we missed the 1st ten minutes so at my suggestion we stayed and watched it again. Then came the toys, dibs on Han Solo, I'm always Han!(Boba Fet was my 2nd choice) My friend Lars had almost all the ships and cool figures and he had a garden that was perfect for playing Return of the Jedi. The wood chips, the bushes, and the big little tree. It was a close approximation of Endor. He also had the battery powered blasters so we would also make use of the near by spots to play out various scenes. Jazz hands good times!!!
Then there was the premiere of Star Wars on HBO. My dad, mother, sister and me in the family room eating freshly air popped pop corn, watching the first airing since leaving theaters. Many many many cable viewing later, VHS and all the various DVD releases, it is still close to my heart. New Hope, Empire and Jedi that is, Don't care much for the Jar Jar era episodes. Oh well batting .500 does get you in the Hall of Fame!
When they rereleased New Hope, I went with some friends and there were a few people dressed as characters. I would have been Han. At the end when they were handing out the medallions, someone actually got up and soluted the screen!
Many thanks to Han, Chewy, Luke, Leia, Yoda, Darth, Old Ben, Boba Fet... MAY THE FORCE BE THEM ALWAYS!
Thanks for using the FORCE
me
The Blue of Distance
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a bit from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not traval the whole distence from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distence. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distence, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much which is in the color blue.
a bit from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not traval the whole distence from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distence. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distence, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much which is in the color blue.
"Cue the opening theme to "Land of the lost"
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The B-52's "Planet Clare" Not quite what you were expecting eh? I'm not speaking of the Jurassic Park esq., cutting edge for its day special effects laden 70's TV show. I mean the DJ Robert Drake hosted 80's musical phantasm of things forgotten and never heard from again until the final Friday of every month from 7 - 11 PM on 88.5 WXPN. http://www.xponentialmusic.org/archives/landofthelost.php
Listening to the opening of the show "Planet Clare" comes on its time to listen to everything new wave. This also means I'm almost done the frontal lobe numbing tasks that will allow me to pilot my dust buster back to its charger and a step closer to 3, well 2 and 1/3 days off! I reach the charger and poof, blown fuse. I have to stay for the off load and sorting of the freight. Come on folks, you think your packages get to the "world on time" with elfin magic? FedEx did buy the elfin magic a couple years ago, I think it was part of the Kinkos deal. Finally done,14 hours from start to finish with 11 of them spent on the clock.
Summer 2007 is upon us until the indian comes along and kicks him off the island! Then uncle fall comes back from his 9 month vacation in San Diego to make the leaves his canvas of color. Boy do I love uncle fall!
Due to recent good fortunes, I will spend part of my 2+ days down time with a very promising new book and breaking in a new hat, "life is good" indeed!The forecast is calling for hot and hazy all weekend. The kind of heat that will try to melt off that last layer of winter skin that helps with the cool mornings that still hang around most of Mays early hours. Problem with that layer is that in weather like this it retains the sweat like a sponge, just won't let go. Hopefully when it is all said and done I'll burn off that winter layer for good.
Saturday: Coaching 3 driving lessons and then off to my cousins party for some Lions head lager. Pretty good for like $10.25 a case and the cheeky bottle cap brain teasers make it even better!
http://www.lionbrewery.com/index.html
Sunday: Sleep in till like 8:30, church, then house work to be done and perhaps I'll find my golf clubs and see if I can hit em long and strait or at least try to hit the ball collecting tractor or maybe try to slap a few big yellow ones in the batting cages! Later should yield a trip to the Tiki for dinner and drinks.
Monday (the other Sunday for this week): Sleeping in until I'm good and ready to get up!!!! If it is too hot in the house, the a/c will be set to sub zero. More packing the non essentials and pitching the useless crap. Hopefully somewhere in the chain of events I'll be heading over to see Cameron and Gavin at some point. :-)
It should be a nice battery charger of a weekend, although 5:20am is going to kick me in the britches come Tuesday morning Ugghh!
Thanks for reading my stuff
The B-52's "Planet Clare" Not quite what you were expecting eh? I'm not speaking of the Jurassic Park esq., cutting edge for its day special effects laden 70's TV show. I mean the DJ Robert Drake hosted 80's musical phantasm of things forgotten and never heard from again until the final Friday of every month from 7 - 11 PM on 88.5 WXPN. http://www.xponentialmusic.org/archives/landofthelost.php
Listening to the opening of the show "Planet Clare" comes on its time to listen to everything new wave. This also means I'm almost done the frontal lobe numbing tasks that will allow me to pilot my dust buster back to its charger and a step closer to 3, well 2 and 1/3 days off! I reach the charger and poof, blown fuse. I have to stay for the off load and sorting of the freight. Come on folks, you think your packages get to the "world on time" with elfin magic? FedEx did buy the elfin magic a couple years ago, I think it was part of the Kinkos deal. Finally done,14 hours from start to finish with 11 of them spent on the clock.
Summer 2007 is upon us until the indian comes along and kicks him off the island! Then uncle fall comes back from his 9 month vacation in San Diego to make the leaves his canvas of color. Boy do I love uncle fall!
Due to recent good fortunes, I will spend part of my 2+ days down time with a very promising new book and breaking in a new hat, "life is good" indeed!The forecast is calling for hot and hazy all weekend. The kind of heat that will try to melt off that last layer of winter skin that helps with the cool mornings that still hang around most of Mays early hours. Problem with that layer is that in weather like this it retains the sweat like a sponge, just won't let go. Hopefully when it is all said and done I'll burn off that winter layer for good.
Saturday: Coaching 3 driving lessons and then off to my cousins party for some Lions head lager. Pretty good for like $10.25 a case and the cheeky bottle cap brain teasers make it even better!
http://www.lionbrewery.com/index.html
Sunday: Sleep in till like 8:30, church, then house work to be done and perhaps I'll find my golf clubs and see if I can hit em long and strait or at least try to hit the ball collecting tractor or maybe try to slap a few big yellow ones in the batting cages! Later should yield a trip to the Tiki for dinner and drinks.
Monday (the other Sunday for this week): Sleeping in until I'm good and ready to get up!!!! If it is too hot in the house, the a/c will be set to sub zero. More packing the non essentials and pitching the useless crap. Hopefully somewhere in the chain of events I'll be heading over to see Cameron and Gavin at some point. :-)
It should be a nice battery charger of a weekend, although 5:20am is going to kick me in the britches come Tuesday morning Ugghh!
Thanks for reading my stuff
"Do the wandering elk live there to?"
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General Tso's fortune
:) "You are heading for a land of sunshine" :) and my lucky number was on the back so it is a true fortune!
General Tso's fortune
:) "You are heading for a land of sunshine" :) and my lucky number was on the back so it is a true fortune!
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