October 24, 2005

What today, Magpie?

Thought for the day (Sunday, 23 Oct 2005):

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

--John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

Brought to eye/mind today:
a magpie flitting from roof to fence to roof again.

Thank you, Lord, for...being able to get the windows shut, because it's winter again.

Today's Log:
•  Using silicone spray got the two upstairs windows to close all the way. It took about an hour of scraping old paint, spraying, opening and closing, and (toward the end) cussing. It would have helped on the last one if I'd had both latches in the same--and the bottom one in the correct--position. Remember: up is open, down is closed.
•  Didn't paint again today. Caught myself sighing a lot while I was making dinner. I made spaghetti and used shiitake mushrooms in the sauce. This is the first time I've worked with them. The older ones have a sweetish smell; I don't think I'll be serving them uncooked. Funny how organic forms smell sweeter when they're decaying.
•  Watched Finding Neverland and was moved by it -- almost started crying when the Mom (Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, played by Kate Winslet) stepped into Neverland. Johnny Depp did a fine job, playing playwright J.M. Barrie. I think I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent.

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October 16, 2005

Cousin to the Bear

Thought for the day (15 Oct 2005):
"Originally written as a Introduction to Kathleen Sullivans upcoming book Recurring Dreams: A Journey Into Wholeness.
"All dreams help to move the individual dreamer toward a greater understanding of confusing emotions, greater expressive strength and clarity, and a greater integration and conscious focus of scattered personal energies. The recurrent dream is particularly helpful in healing deep personal psycho-spiritual injuries and resolving individual emotional dramas."
--Jeremy Taylor, "Recurring Dreams"

Brought to eye/mind today:
Dream realities and bear scat (not necessarily related)

Thank you, Lord, for...final pieces of fence fitting together so well. For this, thank you very much.

Today's Log:
•  Returned to circumstances and location of a previous dream to visit friends and see how they are doing. In this dream I was a musician and these were fans in a city I visited on tour. At the present time they were glad to see me, but not overjoyed; the circumstances of their lives had changed, but were still much the same.
I was surprised to return to this dream, because it didn't seem significant or have that feeling something important was afoot.
I started thinking about recurring dreams I've had and came up with this list

• Black pool (approx. 15 years of age): a recurring dream that evolved. At first I just drowned in the pool, at the end I transcended drowning and saw a horizon with translucent hills
• Seven-League boots (lifelong, but seldom): Basically I'm flying (shades of Erica Jong). I remember enjoying the dream a lot and the viewpoint of seeing things from above.
• Leaving apartment to catch the bus (approx. 24): Often with Julie, my daugher. Just recurring, felt like I was rehashing stuff that happened during the day. At the time I was renting a house.
• Landing in a spaceship and finding evidence of an ancient civilization (~24 to 36): A wise old man pilots the ship and teaches me about our findings. This dream didn't occur very often--maybe twice, but I always felt good after experiencing it. Sometimes I would just see images from it while experiencing other dreams.
• Key West (approx. 39-44): This was a complex dream with many things happening and changing. I never understood all of it--it was both forward-looking and therapeutic. I was in an abusive relationship at the time and dreaming about finding a man who loved me. There were two men in the dream--a dark man with one arm or a limp and the other tall and blonde. Key West was significant, but also a real place in the Florida Keys. After beginning this dream sequence, the relationship broke up and I went back to school.
• Running up the school steps, late for class and unprepared (lifelong, but usually when I'm not in school): I'm very distressed because it's finals time and I haven't done any homework. Often it's a language, Latin or French that I neglected. I think this is a reminder to get back on track.

•  Finished fence today; tomorrow will work on the gate. Estimated the materials pretty well--3 split slats and the 7 set aside for the gate left over. Each day when I finished working I realized my feet were cold; today I realized I have warm boots in the house and could have been wearing them.
•  There's another pile of bear scat in the yard. This bear really wants to declare my yard as his/her territory. Is this good or bad? Am I Cousin of the Bear now? Or first on its grocery list? At any rate, when the gates are done, the scat gets cleaned up and the yard is off-limits.

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October 15, 2005

The moose swerved

Thought for the day (14 Oct 2005):

Hymn

I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth
and go on out
   over the sea marshes and the brant in bays
and over the hills of tall hickory
and over the crater lakes and canyons
and on up through the spheres of diminishing air
past the blackset noctilucent clouds
      where one wants to stop and look
way past all the light diffusions and bombardments
up farther than the loss of sight
   into the unseasonal undifferentiated empty stark

And I know if I find you I will have to stay with the earth
inspecting with thin tools and ground eyes
trusting the microvilli sporangia and simplest
   coelenterates
and praying for a nerve cell
with all the soul of my chemical reactions
and going right on down where the eye sees only traces

You are everywhere partial and entire
You are on the inside of everything and on the outside

I walk down the path down the hill where the sweetgum
has begun to ooze spring sap at the cut
and I see how the bark cracks and winds like no other bark
chasmal to my ant-soul running up and down
and if I find you I must go out deep into your
   far resolutions
and if I find you I must stay here with the separate leaves

--A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems, Expanded Edition, 1986

Brought to eye/mind today: a moose changing course

Thank you, Lord, for...the moose's changing course.

Today's Log:

•  Called daughter Julie to wish her happy birthday. She is unavailable still.

•  Researched color profiles for my HP PhotoSmart 912C camera. Not much info--looks like I would need to make a custom profile. Tried again to update the camera's firmware, but HP's software can't connect with the internet. All other programs can and do. Also researched whether I should get an LCD or CRT monitor for digital graphics. All the references I found say CRT's have more color depth, better contrast, and better color quality and purity. So off to finding the best monitor for the job. Am seriously considering a ViewSonic G90F. (My current monitor is old and getting dimmer by the day.)

•  Worked on the fence for ~3 hours. The temperature was hanging around 40°F. While I was working in the narrow corridor between my neighbor's fence and mine, the dog next door spooked a moose passing by and he/she bolted. I looked up to see the moose beginning to turn into this corridor. For a minute the world stopped. I looked at the moose, the moose saw me. And it swerved. Thank God.
Measured and counted cedar slats. I'm 15 slats shy.
Felt warm enough while working, but when I quit for the day and came into the house, I was cold to the core. Odd.

•  Don't know why but I keep infringing on MLF's jobs. Maybe it's because he so caught up in his gaming, I don't know when or if he'll do them.

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October 01, 2005

Streaming out vs. streaming in

Thought for the day (25 Sept 2005):

"The two psychic poles are here contrasted with one another. They are represented as logos (heart, consciousness), to be found under the fire trigram [Li], and eros (kidneys, sexuality), under the water trigram [K'an]. The 'natural' man lets both these energies work outwardly (intellect and the process of procreation); thus, they 'stream out' and are consumed. The adept turns them inward and brings them together, whereby they fertilize one another and produce a psychically vital, and therefore strong, life of the spirit."

--a footnote in The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, p.31

Read on for day's notes and mockup of work in progress...

Brought to eye/mind today:  flow

Thank you, Lord, for...for clarity concerning the fence.

Today's Log:
•  Read a TIME Magazine article about J.K.Rowling and her latest addition to the Harry Potter series--The Half-Blood Prince. The article mentions that in the book Harry is psychoanalyzing Voldemort. For some reason this seems odd to me, coming on a day when I'm looking at Himmler's (Head of Hitler's SS) motivations and intents.
•  Looking at reverse flow of energy for female.
•  Applied gesso to the canvas for "Yellow Lily." A mock-up of the painting is below; a thumbnail of it above.
•  Set up guides for aligning fence slats when putting them up. It took me a while to figure out that I need to cut them to length (didn't have to with back section).

Posted by Marge at 06:14 PM

September 24, 2005

A quiet life

Thought for the day (18 Sept 05):

Full moon today at 25 Pisces 16. According to D. Rudhyar it is
"PHASE 355 [of 360] (Pisces 25°): A religious organization succeeds in overcoming the corrupting influence of perverted practices and materialized ideals.

"KEYNOTE: The power of the Soul to intervene in the personal life and to induce necessary catharses."

Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and its 360 Symbolic Phases, Random House Vintage Books, 1974

Brought to eye/mind today:
The slippery slope of he said/she said

Thank you, Lord, for...good chili.

Today's Log:
•  Set up my new vacuum--a Dyson DC14--and tried it out. It certainly clings to the floor when it's working. Using the attachments took some figuring out and is awkward; but this upright vacuum easier than others to maneuver--feels lighter and not as awkward.
•  It has been several weeks since I've had time during Sunday to paint. When I don't my life begins to slowly unravel. I can see it beginning now. Also, I keep wondering: why just Sunday?
•  During lunch read about Karl Rove in TIME ( http://www.time.com/time/pow/article/0,8599,388523,00.html) With all the machinations going on in the case of Valerie Plame, I'm reminded of why I chose the quiet life, mostly removed from society.

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August 27, 2005

These pages are archived....

I've moved to http://coming-of-age-in-the-aquarian.blog-city.com

Please do visit me there.

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June 21, 2005

Now being overwhelmed by spammers' trackback pings...

Have relocated to http://coming-of-age-in-the-aquarian.blog-city.com/

Website has been redesigned. Take a look.

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May 05, 2005

I've moved

Now blogging at http://coming-of-age-in-the-aquarian.blog-city.com. Please stop by.

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February 07, 2005

A flood of photons, our gift from the sun

Thought for the day (25 Jan):
The world is your lab. Question everything, especially your beliefs. Facts and evidence aren't the only measure, what you conclude after weighing matters is.

Brought to eye/mind today:
From an ad in TIME magazine (Nov.22, 2004) by Shell Solar Industries LP, "...the earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour tha the world uses in a whole year."

Thank you, Lord, for...VNC (a network connection that allows you to access a machine's desktop and open applications) fixed and DVD read-write set up. And thanks to Roger for his help.

Today's Log:

>>Coming across the quote above, an old question came back: "Why are we still burning dead or decayed lifeforms for energy when we know a better way?" How many centuries is it, now?

>>At home checked VNC to be sure it works--it does.

>>Installed newer version of Corel Office; the old one kept going into fault. I think the patches to WIN 98, which I'm still using on this machine, are somewhat incompatible. Also, checked Microsoft site about license for putting WIN2000 on this machine.

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Shiny, pretty baubles

Thought for the day (24 Jan):
Each day has something to teach, is an opportunity to learn.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Dots artfully arranged.

Thank you, Lord, for...earring clarity

Today's Log:

>>At work, caught up some old tasks.

>>During lunch hour shopped online for alternate to $140 aquamarine earrings I found online (see below) Friday or Saturday. Found gold findings at affordable prices and faceted aquamarine brioloettes.

>>Worked on digital mockup of "Intimacy." Found it exciting to work on.

Suz Andreasen's pretty, sparkly aquamarine earrings

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There's more to intimacy than male/female relations...

Thought for the day (23 Jan):
in•ti•mate \"in-t€-m€t\ adjective [alter. of obs. intime, fr. L intimus] (1632)
1 a : intrinsic, essential
b : belonging to or characterizing one's deepest nature
2 : marked by very close association, contact, or familiarity
3 a : marked by a warm friendship developing through long association
b : suggesting informal warmth or privacy
4 : of a very personal or private nature
©1997, 1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Thinking of making a will.

Thank you, Lord, for...tasty molasses bread (though it was soft in the center)

Today's Log:

>>Saw cat Squeaker checking out the spot where I saw the "ghost" on Friday.

>>Cleaned downstairs bath--finally. Mostly dust from catbox.

>>Made 5-fruit salad and molasses bread for dinner.

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Tyger! Tyger!

Thought for the day (22 Jan):
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
--Wm. Blake, 1794, "Songs of Experience," "The Tyger"
(and my standard printer test)

Brought to eye/mind today:
Creaking floor in passageway between kitchen/dining room and living room (has been bothering me for a week or more; just now verbalizing it)

Thank you, Lord, for...VPN goal reached.

Today's Log:

>>Tested connection at home. Success at last. Downloaded Acrobat Reader 7 so I could access Poser5 help files.

>>Went to Borders looking for a CD and bought Dan Brown's "The Davinci Code," the illustrated version, instead--after it feel off the shelf when I approached.

>>Really annoying people at Fred Meyer today. I swear everyone there made it a point to stop and stand in front of me as I was trying to navigate the store and select my groceries.

>>Watched the movie "Troy." Achilles was presented as petulant, accustomed to having his every wish granted, and self-indulgent. I guess that's what being a Greek demi-god is/does.

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A ghost or no?

Thought for the day (21 Jan):
Sometimes the long view is just too far away.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Title for this series of flower paintings: "Georgia on my Mind"

Thank you, Lord, for...my trip to Costco being quickly accomplished.

Today's Log:

>>When I went to the door for morning prayer and opened the door, saw a flash of motion. The shape was trapezoidal and moved like a sheet of paper, but it was white and so transparent as to be almost invisible. It seemed to start and move away quickly as if surprised. In a moment I saw another flash at the road, where it seemed to turn south. Its original position was this side of the pile of wood from the old deck. I think I saw a ghost.

>>Tonight's Sci-Fi Friday. Been waiting.

>>Notes on Flower Series:
1. Series title: Georgia on my mind
2. Five or six paintings with flower(s) dominating the stage and information in the background.
3. First painting is "Intimacy" (working title).
4. A second may show Crown of Thorns with Mayan figures looking up in background. Working title: "Toward the Light."
5. A third may show clematis and emphasize the flow of them.

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Just a place on planet Earth

Thought for the day (20 Jan):
"...We do a job that keeps a certain part of your psyche peeled and fresh. And we're happy. We're useful. We provide a service that helps people get through their lives..." --Simon Lebon (Duran Duran), TIME Magazine, October 18, 2004

Brought to eye/mind today:
Long view, short view...or that's good, no that's bad.

Thank you, Lord, for...honey at a reduced cost.

Today's Log:

>>In a surly mood today. D.R. called and invited me to AMVETS for dinner. I declined because I was in no mood to be around people.

>>New version of WordPerfect Office finally arrived.

>>Reading about Arafat and the politics of Jerusalem and it seems to me the city is cursed. How many people have died because their group feels it owns a piece, if not all, of it. Count Jews, Muslims, Christians, Palestinians.... It is, after all, just a place on planet Earth.

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Sometimes you just want to slip away...

Thought for the day (19 Jan):
"O, tiger's heart wrapped in woman's hide."
--Wm. Shakespeare, 1592, "Henry VI:" York to Margaret

Brought to eye/mind today:
Alice's flamingo croquet mallet compares to working with figures in Poser.

Thank you, Lord, for...a day at home to do what I want.

Today's Log:

>>Took a personal day, and experienced, for a fleeting moment, joy of being (while walking from the kitchen to the stairs). Go figure.

>>Worked most of the day on creating a figure in Poser5 (Curious Labs). Learning the ground rules for working effectively.

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January 30, 2005

Surprises from the deep

Thought for the day (18 Jan):
29 degrees Capricorn: "A woman reading tea leaves.
Keynote: The ability to see the Signature of hidden meaning in every occurrence drawing one's attention."
--Dane Rudhyar, " An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and Its 360 Symbolic Phases," Random House (Vintage Books), New York, 1974

(NOTE: Sun crosses 29 Capricorn tomorrow. I'm a day ahead of myself.)

Brought to eye/mind today:
Deep sea creatures brought to shore by the tsunami (Pics in an email sent by a co-worker)

Thank you, Lord, for...your small guidances always there for me to hear.

Today's Log:

>>Finished creating a pop-up calculator in Excel.

>>Trying to make Poser, the application, work for me. There's definitely a learning curve to it.

>>Exercising was hard today, don't know why.

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Drop-everything-and-do-this-for-me-now

Thought for the day (17 Jan):
"But time advances; facts accumulate; doubts arise..." --Thomas Macaulay (of Rothley) (1835)quoting Sir James Mackintosh's "History of the Revolution in England, in 1688" as quoted in "Chambers Dictionary of Quotations", 1997

Brought to eye/mind today:
Overflow

Thank you, Lord, for...my bag of wheat that serves as a heat pack (and thanks to Betty for giving it to me).

Today's Log:

>>Wrist hurting more and more lately.

>>This was a drop-everything-and-do-this-for-me-now day. You know who you are Charles, Roger and MLF.

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What is intimacy, anyway

Thought for the day (16 Jan):
"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." --C. G. Jung, "Memories, Dreams and Reflections," 1962

Brought to eye/mind today:
Sweet vs. bitter views in my artwork

Thank you, Lord, for...Christmas decorations put away.

Today's Log:

>>Working on a new painting, working title is "Intimacy." Doing a digitial mock-up of the painting before I start applying, or misapplying paint to canvas (as the case may be), I find that I'm struggling with how I will present the topic. I know the main image will be a gardenia. But the background image can be anything. I'm thinking it will be woman's figure. So far I've considered a woman on her knees with her butt in the air; a woman arced backward in a circle and floating in the air; a woman with her legs spread. It's beginning to look like my view is that intimacy disarms a woman.

Some factors:
Women need/want intimacy more than men. Men generally avoid intimacy.
Sexual intimacy can exact a greater price from women (possibility of pregnancy)
Intimacy means letting down your guard and allowing someone in.
There's more, maybe later

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Dilettante is my middle name

Thought for the day (15 Jan):
Karma (what goes around, comes around)
vs. the human condition (what goes around, goes around again and again)

Brought to eye/mind today:
A beautiful, proud woman with shifty eyes.
Also, a portion of an image--an arc containing white dots with the dots more concentrated at the apex.

Thank you, Lord, for...unproductive patterns revealed.

Today's Log:

>>Intend every Saturday to catch up my blog entries, but get side-tracked. Today window-shopped online for earrings--seems I'll grab at any distraction.

>>Saw a color laser printer at CompUSA for $400. Tempted to buy it.

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Still trying to understand intimacy

Thought for the day (14 Jan):
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." --Jean Giraudoux

Brought to eye/mind today:
Cars like beads on a string--when they speed up they're further apart, when they slow down they crowd together.

Thank you, Lord, for...a new copy of "Family of Man."

Today's Log:

>>Worked, then came home.

>>Received a profile from an online dating service--2 of a kind. These services don't work for me, little does is the dating area. But I am intrigued by a Scot that is a Buddhist.

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Trying to define intimacy

Thought for the day (13 Jan):
"I have sat by night beside a cold lake
And touched things smoother that moonlight on still water,
But the moon on this cloud sea is not human,
And here is no shore, no intimacy,
Only the start of space, the road to suns."

--Francis R. Scott, "Trans Canada," 1945

Brought to eye/mind today:
"a flaky bits clock" --a phrase seen in an email today.

Thank you, Lord, for...my having the info needed, when required.

Today's Log:

>>Still troubleshooting the textarea problem. Looked at the Movable Type entry setup; it seems the styles file can't be found by the application.

>>Ordered an update Corel WordPerfect Office suite on 12/30; it's still not here.

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January 24, 2005

How do you console a stranger?

Thought for the day (12 Jan):
A message to parents whose child has died: Grieve, shudder with the hurt of the loss, but know this--that small body housed a full-grown soul and the soul knows its own path. Accept it's wisdom and grow in understanding.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Dressing to keep warm.

Thank you, Lord, for...Charles' help with coding a webpage

Today's Log:

>>A co-worker's five-month-old needs a liver transplant.

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Living in my own virtual private world

Thought for the day (11 Jan):
If I can visualize it and feel it's life, I can make it so.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Escher's skill in his print "Three Worlds" (1955, lithograph)

Thank you, Lord, for...my headbolt heater, that works so well.

Today's Log:

>>Office heaters came on full-force today because of the cold (about -10 degrees Fahrenheit outside), and temperature is over 80 degrees. It's too hot to work here, so doubling my efforts to make my VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection work. That way I can work from home on days like this.

>>Trying to fix textarea size in blog--so far nogo.

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The eye of the beholder

Thought for the day (10 Jan):
Some mystics say the Cosmos is in constant motion, and it's the motion of the Cosmos that creates form.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Color profiles (monitor)

Thank you, Lord, for:...Monitor color fixed

Today's Log:
>>At work, doing other people's jobs
>>Scanned pic of gardenia; looks beautiful
>>Web design not looking right. Browser color values different from jpg's produced by Corel Photopaint. Reset monitor's color profile to 9300K, assigned a color profile from manufacturer and reset Corel to 9300K. Worked beautifully.

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Intimations of intimacy

Thought for the day (9 Jan):
Breathe deep, be engaged.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Lacy, frost-covered trees

Thank you, Lord, for...time off.

Today's Log:

>>Shrugged most of my duties off and played Paper Mario 2 most of the day.

>>Worked on composition of a new flower painting--a gardenia. The working title is "Intimacy"--from my 2005 calendar by Joyce Tenneson. Thinking of background images of flesh-on-flesh, but need photos for reference. Keep remembering a photo of mother and child in "Family of Man." A copy of the book is on order.

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Only so many hours in a day

Thought for the day (8 Jan):
Is the ideal a prototype to be field-tested or a standard against which all in that class are to be judged?

Brought to eye/mind today:
Shades of blue. Also persistent pain--a new experience.

Today's Log:

>>Meditation: Postulating techniques--one for texture in paintings using acrylic modelling paste; another for changing the way the color is laid on a top layer by underpainting it with an absorptive layer, probably modelling paste.

>>Finding there is little time available for working on the dolphinmoon.net website redesign.

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January 15, 2005

The birds, no, squirrels, no, fish

Thought for the day (7 Jan):
Einstein's 3 work rules:
First, out of clutter find simplicity.
Second, from discord make harmony.
Third, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Brought to eye/mind today:
>>Early AM: cover of my astrological software CD caught my eye. (Does this mean I should look at my chart?)
>>During day: Two people compared their experience to Hitchcock's movie "The Birds." One person was talking about a threatening surplus of squirrels, the other about fish flying above a boat in an art print.

Thank you, Lord, for...new places to explore.

Today's Log:

>>Caught up webmaster tasks; by end of day worn-out. Returning to work after a week off is tough business.

>>Today's First Friday, which means visiting the art galleries downtown. We started at the Captain Cook and again were given free food; I think the manager particulary likes someone in our group. Our round of galleries came to a screaming halt when DR decided to buy a picture. Did make it to a couple of other places, both interesting. One was a somewhat off-beat furniture store, where I sat is a red suede chair and vegitated for a while; the other was a definitely off-beat hair salon/gifts/espresso shop. It was fun.

>>Felt overheated all day. While walking downtown, everyone cold, except me.

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January 06, 2005

If all else fails, read the instructions

Thought for the Day:
"The more precisely the POSITION is determined, the less precisely the MOMENTUM is known."
--Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Theorem, which applies to quantum mechanical behavior

Brought to eye/mind today:
Unusual plants--one that looks like a parsley bush (can't find anything that looks that much like parsley and is a bush; must be a very large parsley plant) and another like a gourd with spiky fronds (called a Ponytail Palm, see pic below). Image found at www.seedrack.com.

Thank you, Lord, for...errors found and fixed.

Today's Log:

>>Dreamt of relationships: One, romantic, felt oppressive. The other, a foursome, felt uneasy; the group dynamics were odd with one person always trying to sway the others and one always passive.

>>At work broke the server. Easily fixed, but off-line for an hour or so.

>>At home fixed broken HTML editor. Railing about having to beta-test something I paid for, then learned that I was misusing it. At least I didn't contact the developer and gripe. While it was broken tried to download a couple of other editors, but the downloads didn't work. Interesting.

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Sometimes you need to slow down and regroup

Thought for the Day (5 Jan):
My Soul knows his path; I do my best to be in accord.

Brought to eye/mind today: Persistent error message

Thanks, Lord, for...shining health.

Log
>>The electrician installed the outlet for plugging in the microwave; it took him about 15 minutes.

>>Still problems with setting up the form for the battery PM.

>>My new HTML editor is broken. Then I remembered I have Homesite; can't remember why I felt I needed a new editor.

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January 04, 2005

Legal tender?

"Our times have become vulgar." --Moliere, 1663

Brought to eye/mind today:
Shaggy multifunction scarves in a multitude of colors.

Thanks, Lord, for...
relatively reasonable charges on jobs that needed to be done.

Log
>>Recently, while attempting to replace a broken under-cabinet microwave, I found that it was hardwired into the circuit. When scheduling for an electrician to look at it, I was warned that the new microwave would have to be on its own circuit. I did some research, and it looked like I would have to have a new circuit installed ($400 to $500). Today the electrician looked at the job and said no new circuit was needed and the cost to install an outlet would be $100.

>>At work saw a co-worker wearing a shaggy scarf like a cowl, made from eyelash yarn. Another co-worker had brought in bunches of them in a variety of colors for sale. Bought three.

>>Finally had the oil changed in my car.

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Sometimes you need to see the whole picture, all at once

Thought for the Day (Jan 3):
Nature's pharmacopoeia is extensive, effective, and varied.

Brought to eye/mind today:
An image of a small infant in someone's hands, being offered
up.

Thanks, Lord, for...
workday done and light traffic on the way home.

Log
>First day back to work.
>Offered a painting ("Vectors in Pink & Light") to help Mike and family with medical expenses.
>Worked at home on DolphinMoon.net webpages. Revamping the site to show current artwork. Changing to a whole-page design approach.

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January 02, 2005

Back to the "real" world

Thought for the Day:
Pause and assess a situation before stepping in.

Brought to eye/mind today:
Many people in the grocery stores, all apparently glad to see one another.

Thanks, Lord, for...
my being able to complete the chores planned.

Log
>Did mostly household chores today; played some Paper Mario 2.

>Today is the last day of Christmas vacation--haven't reported to the office for over a week. Could use more time off.

>Did a lesson that asked whether my concept of God is my own or one handed to me by family or culture.

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January 01, 2005

The beginning of a new year

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." --Albert Einstein

Quotation found at the following sites:
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
The Quotations Page
Heart Quotes Center

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December 31, 2004

Testing 1,2,3

Tyger, tyger burning bright

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December 27, 2004

Season's Greetings

Posted to DolphinMoon.net on Christmas Eve...

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