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Winter Solstice, A Full Moon, and an Eclipse
December 21, 2010. There’s a lot going on. At 9PM PST on Monday, December 20, 2010, the first full lunar eclipse in three years will begin. At our longitude on the West Coast of North America, we will have one of the best views. At 3 am Tuesday, December 21, 2010 is the exact moment of the Full Moon. At 3:45 PM is the exact moment of solstice. (I like to geek out about these things. If you are [...]
Letting Go
I get a lot of good ideas. LOTS OF THEM. There is a term for my type of adeptitiude: SCANNERS. People who are not masters of anything, but are pretty good at almost EVERYTHING. That’s me. My father-in-law pointed it out to me the other day. “You changed your brakes,” he said. “I don’t change my own brakes, and I’m the guy you call whenever something is wrong with your car. That’s hard. And you figured it out, and you [...]
I’ve been recaptured by my phone
True Story: Microsoft has moved me on a profoundly philosophical level. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHlN21ebeak] I’m especially sensitive to this concept right now, because I just rescued my kidnapped smartphone. For two weeks, I have been stuck with a dumbphone. I unplugged. No longer needing to check in at every venue where I could earn Points and Mayorships, once again remembering how to scout down where I had stored a friend’s phone number, I returned to a past life. The life where none [...]
Huntress Kids 2010 Episode 2
The journey continues.... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAWnKSYx8WQ]
An ideal life – why not?
I have come to realize that struggling to attain a subpar existence is just stupid. My life has been a mess the past few months. It needed some shaking up, and I’m glad it’s happened. Now that the vertigo has decreased, I’m looking around at the landscape of my desires, capabilities, and directions, and I realize I was trying really really hard to be something I don’t want to be. A salesman. Now, I’m good at sales. On some level, [...]