At the gym tonight I did a relatively light workout, mostly lower body. It hurts like hell, but there are less exercises that I do for the legs than for the upper body, so I rather like Wednesdays as I get out a bit earlier to head home for a shower and dinner.
Finishing up my set, I headed back towards the locker room past the cardio section.
I’m not really into astrology, though I certainly don’t fault anyone who is. Heck, if it works for someone in their life, who am I to question? After all, I might be completely wrong.
Still, I do recognize the difference between the hokey “so general and positive it’ll apply to anyone” astrology in a lot of papers, and that which has some significant thought behind it. Over the years, in various papers and online, I’ve run into Free Will Astrology (previously Real World Astrology) by Rob Brezsney every so often. It isn’t always the case, but sometimes his horoscopes for my sign are damn close.
Posted in Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like
I headed over to REI tonight to pick up my new sorta-new kinda-new-but-not-really slightly-used backpack, which arrived just in time for an upcoming trip.*
Standing in line for the checkout were two women, roughly my age, discussing their upcoming rafting trip, for which there were purchasing new clothing. The taller one, a blonde, was nice looking, but her friend, a couple inches shorter than me with curly brown hair and fantastic brown eyes and a cool tattoo on her ankle was the one that caught me eye.
Posted in Backpacking, Friendship, Stuff I Like, Women
(Update: sorry if anyone tried to comment earlier and couldn’t. WordPress published the post, and everyone could see it, but left it’s status as “unpublished”. Weirdness.)
I can’t deny that after putting up the last post I was a bit weary of typing, so I’ve largely eschewed it for the last couple of days.
Can’t deny either that I was plenty nervous to put it up. Wasn’t sure if it was too long. Wasn’t sure it was too much information. Wasn’t sure how people would react to it.
Posted in Friendship, Life, Life In LA, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like
(Most of this was written in the mountains on Saturday. It’s more stream-of-consciousness that most of my stuff; just something I figured I might as well write about since it’s been on my mind of late and in the faint hope that maybe by just blurting it all out it will, somehow, leave my system. Truth be told, I’m a bit nervous to post it. It may all be over-share but, what the hell, it’s my blog, dammit.
Oh, and there’s some crazy medical stuff in this one. If that makes you squeamish, don’t read.
Oh, and it’s long. Not just cup of coffee long, but “you better brew a pot” long. And make it the good stuff. Dark roast. Solid black. Lumberjack strength. Put hair on your chest strength. Just ‘sayin.)
Posted in Friendship, Life, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like
Mention the topic of “history” to a lot of people, and you’ll immediately watch their eyes glaze over or roll into the back of their heads. Memories, no matter how distant, of boring lectures and the memorization of rote facts (the ‘ol names, dates and places) will cross their face. Probably mixed with a look of horror.
Unfortunately, this is the result of so many, many history classes being mis-taught, as history, more than any subject perhaps, is the story of people. The story of us.
Had someone told me that when I rented “John Adams” that I would find it not only riveting entertainment (this I somewhat suspected) but that I would, in fact, see some kinship with the title character, I would have thought them stark raving mad.
Oh, who am I kidding. I would have only thought that after running to Wikipedia to refresh my memory of who Adams was, as his name is not quite so well known as Washington, Jefferson, and the like. Oh, yeah, sure, I was an AP History student in high school (heck, I even passed the test), but that was… oh, never you mind how long ago that was.
Posted in Life, Movies, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like, Television
Sometimes, despite one’s best efforts, plans go awry. Things don’t turn out quite as you’d expected or hoped they would. Things that you thought were going to be good turned out to be not so much so.
That is to say: sometimes three-day-weekends turn out to be total busts.
Posted in Life, Life In LA, Movies, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like, Writing
This flag, given to everyone in the neighborhood every year by a local real estate agent, sits out in front of my place. It’s a nice touch, all the streets lined with flags.
Posted in Family, Life, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like, Television
(For those of you who expressed concern, no I don’t plan to stop blogging. I just wish the posts I keep mulling over would congeal into something worth posting!
I commented individually, but I thank you all for your kind words. Hopefully this mild case of the blues will go away soon… but now on to less serious business…)
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Okay, seriously, how wrong is this?
Posted in Exercise, Random Thoughts, Stuff I Like
It’s not that I don’t have anything to write. I have a ‘frakkin ton of stuff to write.
Do you ever find that you have a bunch of ideas in your head, but none of them quite rises to the surface to be worth writing about?
I’ve been that way for the past few days. There are few ideas that I’ve considered writing about, even a couple of posts that I’ve started and then set aside, but none of them quite seem to “click”.
Posted in Life, Random Thoughts, Writing
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