The Aerie
Man, I'm beat. Yesterday's aikido session with Leo was strenuous, but
it also involved this kind of squatting step forward, repeated several
times. Yes, I know, I ought to know what the Japanese term for "this
kind of squatting step forward" is, but I don't. There's a reason my
belt is white. Anyway, today I'm discovering an array of muscles
around my hips that I never knew I had!
Today was a hard-workin' day, too. Started at 7:00 and went till
6:00. Too much stuff to list, and mostly too boring to describe,
except it was fun working with a Cisco LocalDirector at one client
site.
The weather today finally cleared up. After ten solid days of cold,
rain and sleet, the sun came out and the temperatures hit the
Sixties... aahh..
If I ever needed evidence that the story of Noah was just a myth, the
past two weeks would have been it: forty days of rain? No human
would have been left alive on the Ark. They'd have been stalking each
other among the wombats, and pouncing from the cover of the emu,
driven mad by the incessant rain. Likewise Seattle must also be a
myth...
Had a long chat with my birthmother over the Yahoo Messenger.
Nifty little device, that. I realize that AOL and Netscape, and
Microsoft all have something similar, but the one from Yahoo actually
works. Well, for me it works, and the others don't. So that's what I
use. Practical, ain't I?
Anyway, it's great. I can sit at work, typing up a proposal (as it so
happens I was doing) and every minute or two receive an comment, type
a quick response, and back to work. We had a nice long chat about
what makes people happy and what doesn't, and how to find happiness in
life. Everyone I know seems to be saying that I should be more
selfish and demand more happiness for myself out of life. Okay: I
demand you guys stop telling me that!
So that (the long workday) is why, if you haven't guessed, my brain is
putty, which is why my topic changes every other sentence. Hey, these
can't all be gems. I'm mostly typing with my eyes closed, slumped
back in my $200 executive high-back chair that I salvaged from a
dumpster because the support post was bent (I bent it back).
Man, these executives sure know how to live... too bad they have to
buy these crappy chairs. No, I mean, this chair is one that, since
I've found it, I've seen in ads from all the furniture stores for
$200. Sure, it's comfortable enough -- for free. But you know why
the support post was bent? Well, the chair had these cosmetic
telescoping cylinders to hide the support post -- under the premise, I
suppose, that looking at a stack of crappy black plastic cups is
somehow preferable to looking at a functional steel cylinder..
Anyway, these cylinders failed to telescope correctly, and when the
former owner sat in the chair, two cylinders jammed together on one
side and caused the pole to bend to the other side.
So he threw it in the dumpster for me to take, and here I am, passing
out in a free $200 armchair while typing my journal entry for the day.
Ain't life grand?
Posted by Albatross at April 21, 2000 12:00 AM