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In this day and age you need to do small/big things like this for survival.
Survival being about organization, motivation, and craftiness.
Archive for June, 2005
Daily Dancer
What a surprise, a happy surprise. Some links led me to the Daily Dancer blog. I totally needed to find this today. Here is this guy who looks so serious and practically, shaking his booty and generally having a cheery time for the public. No inhibitions just doing something that feels good and sharing it makes it feel better.
I recommend checking it out. It seems like a good Monday morning wake-up-er.
Blame it on the pants
I’m doing laundry (finally) and I just took a load of darks out of the wash. To my dismay, the clothes were all covered in bits of kleenex and you know what it made me realize? My first reaction is to always blame a garment. “Hey you spewing kleenex everywhere… …I know you are in there!!!”
Those Summer Blues
It’s been happening for the past few days now, loneliness is really kicking in. At night I have no where to go but home to the empty nest I’ve built for myself. It used to be that I would crave time to spend by myself. To endulge in those activities that required minimal physical movement such as watching downloaded tv shows and playing the sims. Now I routinely turn on my computer when I get home. I stare at the screen and wonder why that was the first thing I did as I walked into my apartment. Why is my life centered around interaction with this box. I think I might have no life :P
It’s really depressing actually. But the first step towards solving the problem is admitting it. I admit that my computer is the center of all activity and entertainment in my home. My guitar gets dusty, the canvases are not getting painted, the books are saved for bus rides, and the phone is just scary. The good thing is that it is really, really starting to bother me. I feel restless and annoyed. I want to find other things to do but it’s like I just don’t know how. I stand in the middle of the living room and stare out the window. I wonder what I could be doing, who I could be talking to, who is outside, what they are doing. Many things. That’s usually followed by an attempt to come “in the moment” and to enjoy my surroundings for what they are.
At that moment I go in one of two directions: anxiety attack over what I’m doing with my life or I start doing something. Like, actually doing something, not just going back to the ‘puter. Last night I actually played guitar for a while and then phoned Jemma. Tonight, I am starting the large task of putting all my “still listened to” cds onto Waffles. Okay yes this is still computer involved… …well I think it’s very important that I construct, categorize, and organize my music collection. My cds have been ignored lately as I listen to most of my music at work from last.fm or from my itunes library. Still, there’s lots of good music there, complete albums, memories, etc. and I shouldn’t leave that in the dust. That and I want to see how large an ipod I will need when I finally get one ;)
As I’m going through my music collection I see many “embarassing” cds. Should I keep these? I feel very conflicted when it comes to this question. On one hand I will never listen to them again, on the other they are part of my past, part of who I am today. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Any answers to the “what to hold onto” question.
That brings me to my last note. I’ve enabled comments on my blog. I think the only reason I didn’t have them before was because I didn’t like the way the formatting turned out and couldn’t be bothered to fix it. But I reinserted them and I can’t remember what problem I had before so I’m not going to worry about it. So comment away, I love comments, remarks, criticisms, etc.
The summer is not that blue. Just a little restless.
Accumulating Pens
This weekend I needed some thesis completion motivation so I finally went out and bought a Moleskine notebook. It is the notebook of notebooks. The pages are so perfect. I bought the grided version as I like to draw straight vertical and horizontal lines. It’s great for diagrams.
Apparently there might be moleskine cults out there. Phillip pointed me in the direction of this blog dedicated to them. It was referenced by another blog he sent to me earlier, one which I will make sure I pay close attention to, LifeHacker.
On a side note, today I am accumulating pens. It’s great. I’m losing everything else including my head but at least I will have tools to write about it with.
I would stare at it for hours
This is wonderful where can I get one?
Ritual : Wet Lamp : Scott J. Franklin
Note on Father’s Day
Just a small reminder of all the love our fathers can feel for their family but possibly never be able to show it. It is there and www.oldmencrying.com captures some of the moments that it breaks loose from them.
OOOOooo
I just realized that the magnetic poetry widget refreshes the words on your dashboard after you shut down / restart. :)
howling grey shrieks
crowded cart-horse crash
shedding home throw teapot
your beloved did uglify drawing
declared wonder
wander needs year
New Poetry
I didn’t think the new Dashboard for Mac OSX Tiger was THAT cool. It seemed okay. But I started liking it a little and now that I have found out that you can download extra widgets it’s just the greatest thing in the world. Like the Wikipedia widget?? Sweet!!
I just downloaded the magnetic poetry widget. It’s pretty awesome although I was disappointed that when I added it to my dashboard, it didn’t toss 200-300 words onto my screen. You have to add words one at a time - the results being unpredictable. I decided to not allow myself to delete the words they give. I selected a number and then made my first dashboard poem:
steam-engine zigzag
crash station
advise eyes
yours suit sounds
Never thought of Eggo Waffles before
I was checking out various domain names today and stumbled upon www.waffles.com. I was kinda hoping that the domain name would not be taken but I actually kind of like the resulting site. Makes me think about breakfast.
So then it’s not until I’m opening blogger to make this comment that it hits me:
waffles….meggomyeggo….waffles?? I feel silly but that connection never really occured to me until now. Meggomyeggo was just a childhood nickname. Waffles was inspired by Gir.
Kalas Salt
I bought this container of sea salt today. It’s from Greece. I used it for my supper on fish and vegetables and it’s a quality product.
But my tastebuds didn’t have to tell me this. Looking at the back of the container…
Kalas Salt
…this salt is the winner of several international awards. I’m wondering what these awards are and how I might win them.
First post from Waffles.2
Was this too impulsive? Once in a while I make decisions that feel as though they are a little impulsive - but they usually turn out to be good ones. I’m hoping the same here as I type my first blog entry from this PowerBook. I’ve made the shift from PC to Mac and feel like a tag along but isn’t that what all Mac users want? People to join the tribe?
It feels quite nice. The keys, the font I am looking at, the movement in and out of applications. Much to learn though. I am in quite the foreign land.
I can’t wait to get a sleeve. Something sleek and compact, letting me throw my notebook into the backpack and take it for a bikeride. I can’t wait to test the batteries, hoping that they will last longer than the previous Waffles 1.5 hours.
Am I sad that Waffles I is gone? No not really. This is the new Waffles - just reincarnated.
Will the conversion happen?
Waffles is freezing up again. I realized the other day that I do not trust it for any important work. That does not sit well with me. Not at all. Not only do I not trust it, it weighs a ton as I tow it to and from school.
Yes I’m thinking about getting a Mac. Thinking about converting and a year ago I would not have thought of that. I think it’s influenced by all the really smart peopld I know that treasure their ibooks and powerbooks. Not that PC users are not intelligent. It’s just that I’ve never met a Mac user who didn’t regret the commitment they made.
Just a thought that’s been stirring around for a few days. I will talk to people about it, feel it out. Waffles might be moving over to make room for Pancakes soon.
