Enjoying my newly-acquired Timesplitters 3 - shooting zombies' heads off never gets old! Kind of sad, but I've found much enjoyment in video games - much more than in everyday life, anyway...

I'm sure that all of you know about Brian Nichols' violent actions in the courtroom and his subsequent escape. What I didn't know up until right now is that the hostage that he took, Ashley Smith, did not do what most frightened hostages would have done (cower in fear and hope for the best) - rather, she fed him, read to him from the Bible, and ( Read more... )

I just got my Yerba Mate gourd - it's a hollowed-out gourd (go figure) that Paraguayans (sp?) use to drink their wonderful stimulating tea. It's really cool because instead of drinking from the gourd, they use a hollow metal tube, called a "bombilla," that filters out the tea leaves while leaving the leaves infused in the tea. This allows for mucho ( Read more... )

Something just hit me like a lightning bolt - sometimes wisdom can be found in the most innocuous of sources:

"Row, Row, Row your Boat
Gently down the stream...
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily
Life is just a Dream."

There's the core of Zen philosophy - in a children's rhyme! I will go think about this further.

My parents came up to me yesterday and asked me if I would like to move to India for a year...apparently my father's company has a branch there, and my father decided to perhaps go over there for a year and bring things back up to speed. This would mean that I would be missing a year of college - fine by me - and instead traveling across India ( ( Read more... )

Kagemusha is coming out on DVD this January...imagine, the last Kurosawa film that I have to see. There's something that I must add to my wish list of very valuable things!

I can't wait.

It's not even Halloween, and yet I am already feeling some Christmas greed. I am about to give up one of my last remaining vices, computer gaming, and exchange it for another - console gaming. Therefore, it is my express wish to procure an XBox this Christmas. This will allow me to keep my work and my gaming separate thus improving both. Fable. Yum

Turns out this monastery has DSL, so I am taking advantage of the latter and posting a small update. It is now (I think) a week and a half since I came here...in any case, my muscles have stopped hurting only a few days ago. They certainly drive one here, which is good, but I must say that I have been in these 10 or so days a dishwasher, logger, ( Read more... )

Well, tomorrow I leave...whatever happens, it will be very influential one way or the other. I hope that all of you have an opportunity to take on a residency at one time or another - it's very useful for people of all walks of life. I will be back in a month - I hope to see all of you then, and let you know exactly what I learned and went through ( Read more... )

Oh sweet God...I won't have hair within the hour...me bald...what an idea...