Is there one thing in your life, or alternatively are there multiple specific things, that basically define your schedule, in a way so fundamental that they are an integral part of your life, you can't imagine living without them, and if these things don't happen on schedule you feel all weird? I'm talking about things that form the reference ( Read more... )

I think it's just because I'm getting older. You've heard the idea of living life "one day at a time". Well I no longer feel like I have that option. One day is too small a time period to accomplish anything. I'm lucky any more if I get to live life one week at a time. Now in practical terms, I'm still quite impulsive and spontaneous. I'll ( Read more... )

Girls have more fun than guys.

With an accepted likelihood of over-generalization, here's a short list:

• Girls really enjoy looking pretty. Sure, guys can and should do their best to look good, but I don't think we enjoy it like girls do. A girl can dress up in seriously hundreds of different ways. The variety of types of garments available for ( Read more... )

My mom said something truly profound a couple days ago. I don't think she was trying to be profound; I don't even think she was trying to focus on this (it was part of a larger discussion). But it just caught me by surprise as being drastically important, and worthy of significant thought. Here it is ( Read more... )

I feel like writing a song. I probably actually won't write one (we'll see), but if I did, it would have a Salsa flavor, although on the slow side for a Salsa, and it would be in the key of A-flat. It would have a hauntingly beautiful, yet catchy, tune. I have more thoughts about it but I will keep them to myself at the moment. :-D ( Read more... )

Taking the "One Lone Guy" concept perhaps to an extreme, I am now tuning my own acoustic baby grand piano.

For the record, this is not my first piano tuning, but I'm certainly no professional. It is my first attempt at tuning a grand.

Round trip airfare to San Jose, Costa Rica: $347.15/person
Hotel accomodations: $84/night
Taxi fare: $2/ride
Restaurant meals: $8-$15 each
Bungee jumping in a tropical rain forest: $60 first time, $30 to jump again.

Meeting my new friends from El Salvador and Costa Rica; I already love them like brothers and sisters and it's only been a week:

A few days ago, I re-discovered a song that used to be one of my favorites, and got it stuck in my head again: Wynonna Judd's "Come Some Rainy Day". As with all good music, I have this urge to not only listen to it, but be able to sing and play it. So I've been working on an arrangement for myself on the piano. I can't, of course, sing it in the ( Read more... )

My first personal computer (well, my Dad's really; 5th-graders don't generally own things): 20 MB of hard drive space, 1 MB of RAM, and a 12 MHz processor ( Read more... )

I found this article, in the latest issue of Time Magazine, to be quite interesting. More specifically, interesting enough to look it up on their website and give you all a link to it. (The link should be active for a few days at least.) Mankind's stewardship of this earth has occasionally been well-meaning, and almost always fraught with ( Read more... )