"Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine"
--- Sheryl Crow
"Every Day Is a Winding Road"
Staring at Something Beautiful
Getting some work done and some random cleaning I added a great quote by Forrest Gump to the quote page (near the bottom of the section).
Big Plans this weekend. I am going home to see my girl and my family... and get some dental work done. ;) Good times!
Busy day today... I went for roughly an hour bike ride back in the development on the other side of that 6-lane highway... I came home and took a shower, played some AOE2, got some elbow macaroni at the suggestion of Sarah (granted I also got bow-tie pasta which is what I ate with Prego Meat sauce and some bolied frozen broccoli.... YUM!), read some of Wizard's First Rule, then went for an hour long walk in the same development! Basically I walked the entire time on the same road... Kaymar.... WOW is that a long road in that one development... then I went to K-mart to look for rechargeable batteries (because my new walkman sucks the juice out of them lickety split!) which I never found, and a replacement light bulb for my touch lamp (which I also never found)....
So what did I do in K-mart you may be asking? (probably not since most nobody looks at this, and secondly, those who do could probably care less what I did at K-mart...) I spent 10 minutes watching the Matrix on the TV wall in the back... Wow... what a Saturday...
For those of you who may be wondering what I am doing all the exercising for, it is to prepare me for a much longer stint in South America hiking up various volcanoes and river valleys: Tungurahua (which is actively erupting) and Cotopaxi in Ecuador and El Misti and Nevado Hualca Hualca in Peru... grand total 1 month (July 22nd to August 22nd)...
Nevado Hualca Hualca also sits next to a canyon that the deepest in the world, the Colca Valley, and is bounded by a similar sized canyon whose name eludes me... Hualca Hualca sits 2000m above the alitplano or high plain... (summit is 6000m or 19700 ft above sea level) and the Colca Valley has a base elevation (at the bottom) of 2000m BELOW the altiplano... so 4000m or 13120 ft vertical change in elevation between the two... so all working at high altitudes (thinner air) and HUGE changes in elevation...
And that will probably be my dissertation topic... studying a massive debris avalanche (a section of the volcano) that broke loose and fell screaming into the Colca Valley and PLUGGED IT for a time...
Wow... I just went for my first "extended" bicycle ride in years. Granted this "extended" ride only lasted about 45 minutes, but being I haven't even BEEN on a bike in quite a few years, and my only experience involved short jaunts back Woodlawn Road (a development drive that was not very long), I think I did well. I practically had to peel my hands of the handle bars (much the same way Storm peels Rogue's hands off the controls of the plane in X-Men 2) but this is the grip of death that comes from inexperience. I walked my bike over the two lane road, and had to walk it most of the way up the bike overpass as even such a small angle is too much for such spaghetti legs... but enough self-bashing.
I think I did pretty well. Heck! It was my first time out! I normally have a tendency to kill myself the first time I try something new. If it wasn't weight-lifting to try and (hee hee, right) impress the girls in high school (oh, they were impressed alright... not the kind of impression I was attempting to make :) it was thinking I needed to whip it... into shape... shape it up.... it's not too late... to whip it... whip it good... :D (college)...
... I am trying to avoid this...So today I think I did pretty well! :D.
Okay... many of you may be wondering... correction... there aren't many of you... basically there is just Sarah :X... may be wondering why this page doesn't get updated...
Well, I am not going to give you a reason... its all about post when you feel like and right now I feel like... hmmmm? something. :D
Awesome Website!
Check out these pics taken over a series of years by my British office mate Adam Stinton.
This is one heck of a hobby... correction... common hobby, exceptional talent.
Click on one of the 4 pics at the top of the page or just go here! The rest is just webring and Geocities filler. :P
RANDOM POSTING (crazy wacked insanity... hee hee). I feel happy! I feel HAPPY!
Mahatma Ghandi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person. Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his diet, he ended up with very bad breath.
Therefore, he came to be known as a:
"Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis."
Doh. Plus: the hilarious picture of the day: Easter Bunnies.
Last updated March 23, 2003