Category: Personal

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Small Delay in Travel Plans

Due to my still getting over this cold thing I’ve had (for two and a half weeks), my vaccinations being somewhat out of date, and my passport being close to expiration, I’ve decided to delay my travel plans until next month. By then the antibiotics will have done their job (or I’ll be dead), my vaccinations should be back in full effect, and my new (RFID-enabled… can you spell “DIFRwear?”) passport will be here. At least now I can make a somewhat more informed decision about where to go. What are my options? Anywhere. What’s in the front running? Ireland, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Costa Rica (‘though it’s rainy now), Brazil (just suggested by a friend), Argentina, and Nepal.
If you have suggestions of a country you’ve been to, I’d really love to hear them.

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Happy Belated Birthday, Blog

I totally missed the fact that I created this blog four years ago in April. It definitely took a hit when Twitter and other social networking fun, as well as other factors reared their ugly heads from time to time. However, I wanted to drop a quick thanks to all of my readers and you few commenters who’ve stuck with me and my blog. Apparently you find something funny, intriguing, useful or, at least, distracting about it.

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Lost

Last night I watched the series finale of Lost. I can summarize it in one word: lame.

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MercRX 2010.1

This year’s first Mercury Retrograde is turning out to be a doozy. Some roadblocks are finally giving way (getting things underway with the coffee shop), other delays are springing up (from the construction taking place just before my favorite bike paths to the digging in the street outside my office), to a long lost friend, with whom I haven’t corresponded in well over a year returning, to all sorts of computer and communications breakdowns, as is typical of this time of year.
At least it’s predictable.

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Shoulder Tension

Why do humans have a tendency to “get into our shoulders?” I’ve been pondering this for a while now. When I first started practicing aikido, my sensei told me that I was “very much in my head.” These days, I feel like I’ve settled down from being in my head to more “in my shoulders.” Continue reading “Shoulder Tension”