It’s 9:03 pm on a Tuesday night in mid-late January. Katie’s on the phone with her brother discussing what to read next: Thoreau, Kierkegaard, Asimov, McCarthy…Brian Sanderson’s Mistborn appears to be the winner. I’ve got a stack to read on my farmer’s table… …and a stack of what I’m currently reading next to my side […]
Fears
First warn your family about the homeless epidemic before taking them to downtown San Francisco
Powell St. station. Dublin / Pleasanton Westbound home. Two trains short of the drunk train. At least, that’s what we called the last South Shore train back home. We met up with Katie’s father for dinner just off the Embarcadero. He’s in town for a lawyer conference. We had quite the exceptional time with him. […]
Dealing with #FOMO like Ender
There was a long, long stretch of time where TV shows kept me comfortable when working. It sounds weird, but after having had 100 people on chat at a time from people who shared the same company email domain as I had, I got used to all the voices in my ear. Since they’ve been […]
Treating the days equally
I saw on Facebook that a good friend of mine who I typically admire was medically going through something that not only did I not envy but made me question my envy of him. He was going through tests for his deteriorating health. His posture might be forever wrecked. It sounds non-descript but when one […]
“All I want is love, sleep and good music.”
Another 13-hour work day in a line of 13-hour work days that won’t slow down for another year or two. WordPress setups, Joomla QC, copywriting teaching, project managing & another 1,800 words of writing and I barely dented the task list. That’s not even figuring that my task list is as thin as it is […]
My Big Sur Nightmare – What Did It Mean?
Yeah…I’m gonna have to tone down the sleeping pills. I was already at half-dose but I slept straight through my alarm and wound up with one of the more disjointed Kerouac-inspired Big Sur nightmares I’ve ever had. And it goes like this… I was on a cross-country road trip from Chicago to San Francisco with […]
As pointless as tassled running shoes
When in the pursuit of dreams, there’s something to be said for spinning heels. Lessons can be learned. Crafts can be perfected. One can also find peace in the patience it takes to wait. Jump into the joy. Cozy up the comfort residing in anticipation. But when the world isn’t moving fast enough… Well, the […]
A place & a devil of a time
Sometimes you wake up to a beautiful moment. Sometimes you find yourself in a place and a devil of a time. Sometimes the objective doesn’t change: get from the beginning to the end of the day and be a better person when you finish it than when you started it. Sometimes. Though I’m still not […]
Today Is the Day I Retire My Picasso Old Guitarist Gravatar. With Sadness
Today was a bittersweet day for me. When I started playing around with Social Media tools, I used Picasso’s Old Guitarist as my gravatar – a filler till I decided whether or not I liked these tools. But as with many things in my life, I got attached to the picture. Then again, I’ve almost […]
Still unplugging, and learning that I need to prime the pump
I’m not gifted. I’m not talented. Not today. Probably not tomorrow. Maybe. Fuck it. We’ll let history decide. Then again, I could be wrong. The family’s been around due to the MLK holiday. The normal peace and quiet didn’t enter into my day until late. I feel a little less in control on those days. […]