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Don’t Be A Victim
Victims generally feel that something bad has happened to them and they, themselves, are in no way responsible for it. Now, authentic victims certainly do exist – let’s be perfectly clear on that. However, in a book called, “A Nation of Victims,” Charles Sykes points out that far too many of us have grown adept at finding someone else to blame for our problems and ignoring our own personal responsibility for them.
When you give up accountability for any aspect of your life, you also give up control. When you give up control, you’re basically saying, “There’s nothing I can do about it. There’s no hope of improvement.” What kind of example are you setting for the young people in your life?
– Lou Tice
catty nuptial talk about Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley.
There’s a really fascinating, enthralling article in The New York Times Magazine about the science of coincidence and conspiracy theories. Amazing reading, and written in a great page-turner style.
I WAS A STRANGE CHILD
there are no words to describe you.
except maybe: strange. unique. different.
what kind of child were you?
I cannot find the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance,
Miles up now into the clouds of the summit.
There is no footpath through the ancient woods.
Where did the bell sound,
Deep in the forest, deep in the mountain?
The voice of the torrent gulps over jagged stones;
Sunlight hardly warms the bluish pines.
As dusk deepens in these unfathomable mazes,
I practice meditation
To subdue the dragon of desire.– Wang Wei (701-761)
Bear teeth… Maybe I’ll get a nice fossil, and make it into a necklace. š
Time for beddy-bye. Until tomorrow, dear journal!
I dreamt about my sweetie as a young girl last night. Hearing her laugh, her hair in braids… Iām still smiling about it now. It’s remarkable just how much delight she can bring.
Cool Keywords to my site this morning – Yahoo godzilla and slippers I’m #9.
I think I found what the folks searching for south florida sun-sentinel zombies were looking for here.
As Albus Dumbledore, you are talented, intelligent, caring and a prominent leader. You have a full awareness of the distinction between right and wrong, and have a good and independent understanding of various moral issues. You are able to take leadership of a large group, and your conscientious and friendly nature makes you respectable to your peers.
What? Not Hagrid?
Bah!
Upside, the Bro will go with me as far as all-books, but then will be turning back. He’s doing something later this afternoon with his roomie and roomie’s cousin. I should be seeing Msk and Riker in my travels, though.
Going to launch in about 15 minutes, so I’ll see you later, dear journal.
This Looks Like a Job For…
…a complete scan of Action Comics #1. I dig old comics, I dig Superman, & I dig Joe Schuster’s simple but effective art. There’s something really endearing about it. I adore the early vision of Superman as someone who stops wife beaters and munitions manufacturers. He was so populist and leftist…too bad that changed into the cosmic demigod we have today. (Although I like that version of Superman, too… just not as nearly as much.)
Also…The cutest psych test ever. with just enough bad English to endear it to me. Hello, Dr. Kitty!
“You easily feel stressful. – Only with a little bit of additional work plus controlling your temper, you would then lose energy.”
They recommend “Not only you would accumulate your stress, you are weak to release it. for this type exercise and Karaoke will be the best way.”
Thanks for showing me those links, josh!
I’ve decided to name the bike the “Hofmann Zephyr“… a combination of missv and ldy‘s suggestions. Bright color trails and a gentle breeze. I like that. All the suggestions were fun ones.
I feel that I can only vaguely conceptualize infinity, not really understand it. I can make a sign for it and manipulate it in an equation, I can make up metaphors for describing it or “understanding” it, I can come up with synonyms and thought experiments…but I cannot experience infinity. How the heck can I possibly understand infinity when everything I experience is finite? Do not confuse a facility for description with understanding. Map and territory, menu and meal.
Hitting the sack… sweet dreams, dear journal. Warm thoughts to any who read this. Peace.
A quick quote before I go –
“I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an allreality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.”
–DR. ALBERT HOFMANN
All my chores are done!
Bathroom clean, laundry done, groceries gotten, litter and Newt-foodles obtained, got my *full* security back from last landlord. *rocking*
There are advantages to just getting moving Saturday morn.
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Yes, Men can fill it out too…
eminem as “Rap Man” in Without me cracks me up.
punquin just found this post… it’s only well over two years old. š I think it was one of the first “get to know me” memes to circulate around the LJs. It’s interesting… not all of those items are true anymore, but *most* are.
Newt’s taken to curling up in the bathroom sink…it’s just the right depth and radius to hold him in a little bowl-hug. The downside is that he’s such a sweetie that it’s difficult for me to kick him out of there, should I decide to brush my teeth or shave. The solution? Do dental prep, first. as soon as I open the toothpaste tube, he’s pretty much awake and in my face, looking for mint, so then I can turn on the water without over-moistening the little boy.
We’re tested all the time. Some tests are more challenging than others…tests of skill… authority, knowledge, faith, adaptability, trust…probably quite a few more that I’ve not put my finger on yet.
I wonder if people who suffer from test anxiety in school also suffer from test anxiety from those that the world throws at us?
Even though I’m very fortunate in that most of the tests I’ve had to deal with are usually challenging, but not so difficult that they can’t be overcome. I’ve had quite a few take me right to the edge, though, and I can certainly think of a couple that I’d rather not take again.
note to self, post about some of the more interesting or challenging tests.
I’d like to see this take off as a meme, folks posting in their journals about a particular test they had to deal with…(and lazy me would like folks to post a link here if they do…so I can read ’em all!)
Ah… this is what I was looking for.
There it is… SUBTERRANEAN ISLAND BASE WITH OPTIONAL VOLCANO UPGRADE. set that up about 15/20 miles off the coast, and I’ll be ready. Maybe the undersea city option instead?
Chewing on Earth by David Brin right now… a big, thick paperback, I’m about 30 pages into it. It was given to me to read about two years ago, and am just getting around to it. Not as engrossing as the Uplift books yet, more of an environmental theme, so far. I think that after I finish it, I’ll be technically refreshed enough to focus on a few of the programming projects that’ve been on the back burner.
Bro’s being a swell guy today…picked up ice cream for me at 7-11… he fly, I buy. It’s too bad that he’s allergic to Newtie. They both like one another, too. Ah well… they get to say hi every now and then…the bro just can’t stay inside for too long, and has to wash his hands after giving or getting Newtie loves.
Speaking of Newt… he’s found someplace in the house to hide my hair ties. Not by the food dish, by the litter box or in it (thank goodness… bleh!)… I haven’t discovered all the nooks and crannies here yet. I know he likes to sneak behind my books on the lower shelf (it’s deep).. hopefully he’s not putting them in a cache there…. Hard to get to .
Nice night of sleepies.
Newt is smarter than a monkey… he knows that the moon is in the sky, not it’s reflection in a body of water. But he still prefers to drink from the basin where I wash my face and brush my teeth to the water-bowl by his food.
Payday! How wonderful to have my coffers refilled!
a long overdue moment of Zen:
In quiescence I hear the
Cinnamon blossoms fall.
When night comes,
The Spring mountains are silent.
Suddenly the moon appears
From behind the clouds
And startles the young birds;
By the mountain stream they chirp and chirp.– Wang Wei (701-761)
and your moment of poop.
My political compass – (wow.. a few years ago, the eye for an eye question I’d have strongly agreed to, now I disagree strongly.)
Economic Left/Right: -2.62
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.18
Well, I fall into the same quadrant as Ghandi, but I’m not as economically communist (state-planned economy isn’t my thing), so I guess that’s not bad. some similar minded authors.
Danny’ll be along in a bit for breakfast, so it’s off to the showers, dear journal.