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This is a daily log of whatever happens to cross my mind. The topics are extremely eclectic. Sometimes political, sometimes pensive, sometimes analytical, sometimes humorous, sometimes absurd, and often disturbing.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'reflection'
Gaining Insight (Part I)
It seems like during the past several months, when I have not been writing at all, I have perhaps been lacking more than just the attention that comes with "publishing" to my tiny readership. I've also been lacking in introspection. And it seems that...
The waiting is the hardest part
Tom Petty wasn't kidding.I've spent three months waiting for Rachel to get back in town. And now it's down to 3 days. You'd think it would be easy once it gets to this point. It does. But the despair over interminable separation is now replaced by th...
Train wrecks
Why do we always stop to look at train wrecksWhy don't we just look the other wayThere's nothing to see there, reallyNothing you haven't seen beforeBecause, while not all trains are the sameThe respective wreckage looks eerily similarNonetheless, we ...
Pigheaded assholes who listen to Rush Limbaugh
I will put forth, for your consideration, the following "postulate":1. All who would listen to Rush Limbaugh are pigheaded assholes.2. All who are pigheaded assholes would listen to Rush Limbaugh.Any questions?Thank you for your time....
Scrapping the Scrabbling
This could be called "Pursuing Our Passions: Part 1.5" but I thought that would be boring.I vowed on Facebook the other day that I will stop playing online Scrabble. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, it's an obsession. Second, it's a was...
JOSW Day 2-3: Crash & Restart in Munich
After our dinner, we managed to have some more bier at a small bierhaus directly across from the hotel. Although it was a Saturday night, and a cool looking venue, it was almost deserted. Not sure why that would be. Maybe it gets crowded much later, ...
Choosing your battles
Someone once told me that every opinion and belief that I hold tends to be extreme.And this was a revelation to me. I guess I have always been aware that I am animated, and that I can definitely debate a point for quite sometime. But hearing that, an...
Before Facebook friending all those people from high school...
For a long time, I had few Facebook friends. It was 12. Then it was 20. And it stayed around there for quite some time. It would actually be cool, now that I think about it, to be able to review one's friend add/remove chronology. Then I found more p...
Sick of Goodbyes
This has been a tale of many hellos and many goodbyes.Over five years ago, the first hello and goodbye came in a single day. A fleeting, yet captivating acquaintance, and the expectation that it would probably be goodbye forever.But it wasn't. Some t...
losing control
i promise i won't keep going with this lowercase letter thing forever. but for some reason, right now, it feels like the thing to do.i have always known that a big issue for me is "control". and i don't like to lose it. and that single goal drives a ...
are there really more important things than writing?
well, yes and no.sometimes life becomes absorbing enough that i cannot bring myself to sit and put anything down here. i cannot decide which topic is the one that i will write about, if it has been days, or even weeks. and i am on the verge of needin...
Paranoia
It really sucks being paranoid by nature. I never knew I was. But I guess I always have been. Not sure if it was painfully obvious to everyone but myself. The point in time which I came to believe it was when I did something that exacerbated my natur...
How did I manage to miss so much?
How did I manage to spend my teens and twenties listening to Bananarama and Huey Lewis when I could have been listening to The Jam? I want to attribute it to small town America. But I didn’t grow up in a small town, really. And there were plenty of...
Trust someone for no good reason
The other day, I was sitting outside at a cafe, and working on some files on my computer. I needed to use the restroom. I didn't want to pack up all my stuff. So, I turned to the woman sitting next to me, and asked her if she'd mind watching my thing...
No black box
If I died right now, there would be no black box for my life. No tape that recorded the final 30 seconds of what was going on in my mind. No way of piecing together the trajectory that my life had taken, and understanding what went wrong, and where I...
Things that I don't know
I don't know how many days, weeks, or months it is before I stop untying my shoes, and begin slipping them off? What's the algorithm? What's the criteria? I know, when it comes to running shoes, that I meticulously will tie and untie them, and never ...
Don't bring your stinky fish to our meeting
I don't ask for much, really.I don't ask for people to be on time for meetings. I don't even get particularly upset if people fail to show up for meetings, unless we're really on a crunch for a deadline. Rescheduling is fine. I don't mind if you need...
STA Travel, Final Chapter... a happy ending
A few months ago, I wrote a rather critical blog of an experience I had with rescheduling a ticket that I had purchased. You can see that blog here. I won't go into any of the details, because you can read them in the other entry, and this blog entry...
Airplanes and Airports
I like airplanes because they take me places that I have never been. They take me places I want to go. They go high in the sky, and the earth seems like a tiny model planet, like you'd see when you played with one of those little train sets as a kid....
One year ago...
One year ago this week, I could not possibly have known that I would be here today, writing about what I was doing one year ago this week. It goes to show you how pointless it is to answer questions about "Where do you see yourself in one year?"Thoug...
Swiss Army Disengagement
That's really the right name for it. Because, getting out of that relationship served so many purposes, that it was like the Swiss Army knife of life decisions. I got my life back. I got my friends back; particularly my best friend. I got my living a...
A picture is worth 1,000 words
A picture is worth 1,000 wordsJust to see your face makes me sureThese are things of which I am already sure, of courseBut seeing it written in features and formsInstead of words from far awayMakes it so much more realTwo pictures are worth 10,000 wo...
Alone is so very much in the mind
For the past 18 months, I have had a housemate. We did not see that much of each other. We did not socialize every day. We rarely did things together. When we were both home, typically, one of us was in our room. Often, one or both of us were not hom...
No wishes for the ether
No wishes for the etherI saved them all for youNo prayers for the hopelessMy thoughts with you insteadNo love to empty placesMy heart stays by your sideNo dime spent on lost causesNo more, not this timeNo wishes for the etherNot even on this dayLife'...
Sunshine in a cloudy town
Friday, March 13th is probably the best day we've had in 2009. Spring-like, sunny, light atmosphere. It almost makes you forget that Seattle has 3 more months of "Winter", doesn't it? And I think the moral of the story is that attitude is everything....
Wicker Baskets
She took the wicker baskets backIt really makes no senseIt seems a little spitefulThough, I'll say in her defense...It cannot have been easyCollecting all those thingsBelongings tied to memoriesAnd all the pain they bringShe took the wicker baskets b...
Better
You deserve better than thisA life with loveA life with joyA life with no painA life with peaceFor some reason the cards keep stacking against...Proof there is no justice for the justAnd all the hoping,All the wishing,All the helping in the worldCan'...
In the presence of greatness
Sometimes you discover that you're in the presence of greatness. And it's a slow dawning. You know that it's something. But you don't realize the full extent of it until it lands in front of you like a giant dragon, glistening in its multi-hued glory...
Arranged unhappiness
This needs to be vague, to protect anonymity, so bear with me.I have an acquaintance whom I always have thought might be gay. I would not say that my "gay-dar" is necessarily 100% accurate, but it's pretty good.After the holidays, I ran into him, and...
If only I was a cat...
...I would not know that the proper grammatical expression is "If only I were a cat" And therein lies the rub. White kitty at my feet. Blissfully unaware of the nuances of nothingness. He had his food. He had his insulin. And in a few short minutes h...
