Monochromatic Outlook

Got some cheap enter­tain­ment last night. In my dream, I went to a par­ty thrown by Mis­ter Bad and Majnoona. I did­n’t know any­one at the par­ty and I spent the time there resent­ful and jeal­ous as I exam­ined the floors and rooms of their new home (a place that to my knowl­edge exists only in this dream).

I don’t recall leav­ing the par­ty, but I soon arrived to vis­it my father. He had a nice par­cel of land on the … Read the rest

For years I went through head­phones the way that some peo­ple go through sun­glass­es or ball­point pens: I’d get the cheap­est ear­buds I could find and use them until they fell apart. And they worked fine for me until one day with mon­ey burn­ing a hole in my pock­et I decid­ed to spend fifty bucks on a pair of Sony MDR-V300 head­phones. Fifty bucks is not all that much to spend on head­phones; I can hear the audio­philes in … Read the rest

I’m try­ing to find the loud­est, least roman­tic music in my collection.

I think Fear: The Record is near the top of the list, but they lose points for their cov­er of “We Got­ta Get Out Of This Place.”… Read the rest

I think it’s true. Every time I have some sort of expec­ta­tion that some­thing will be good, it’s bound to dis­ap­point. This for­mu­la was put to the test today when I got pushed out of an air­plane at 18,000 feet.

Yeah, nice ride and all. But after all the build-up, come on. Bet­ter than sex? Get real. It changes your life? Um. Well, so does a cup of cof­fee. You leave all your fears behind? Not hardly.

First … Read the rest

My com­put­er has been down for the last few days. This stuff used to scare me when I had to make my liv­ing with this thing, but I still missed being online, play­ing music, and watch­ing TV and movies. With­out my com­put­er I have only books. Oh, and the gym.

I read recent­ly about a guy who dropped off the grid, bailed from the online world. Part of me real­ly envies that.

In oth­er news, although I already bored xris with … Read the rest

1.) Do you believe in the super­nat­ur­al, and if so, do you fol­low any par­tic­u­lar reli­gion? How have your beliefs changed over the years?

I do not believe in the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the super­nat­ur­al. I believe that there are things that are beyond my under­stand­ing, but I don’t for a moment doubt that they are a part of the nat­ur­al order of the Uni­verse. There is more under Heav­en and Earth than lies with­in my phi­los­o­phy, Hor­a­tio, but being out­side … Read the rest

I’ve already com­mit­ted to myself to get myself ready for the 2005 Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon, and start­ed train­ing for that, but one thing stands out as prob­lem­at­ic: I don’t know if I’ll be able to get in to the 2005 Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon. I was not select­ed in the 2004 lot­tery, and appar­ent­ly about 3000 peo­ple are turned away every year. ham­mer­head got lucky this year and was select­ed in the lot­tery, but I was not and there’s … Read the rest

Last Fri­day I had an appoint­ment with my train­er at 6 a.m. I got to the gym at around 5:15 a.m. and stretched out and did a quick run on the tread­mill while I wait­ed for him.

When he had­n’t appeared by twen­ty min­utes after six, I asked to have him called at home. There he was, sleep­ing in. He’s been late before, and he gave me a free ses­sion for being ten min­utes late recently.

So he apol­o­gized … Read the rest