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duffle bag and forced marches

i made it to work today, carrying the essentials:  books, tooth brush, socks, alarm clock, and enough clothes for the week.  it must of weighed 80 pounds and very tiring/unweildly walking through downtown.  i got some smiles from some white haired veterans, and that made it worth it.  i head over to the place tonight.  i've brought about two pounds of sage and a few incense to smoke the spooks out. 

synchronicity

i wrote yesterday that i saw my twin yes?  my sister, the aquarian, met her twin that very night.  what is going on?  she met a tall blonde women named janelle.  this is too much!  california, what are you doing to me?  as my sisters saga continues, im thinking she needs her own blog.  as for me, the move is on!  packing and cleaning, and i'm off in the evening!  i resisted buying an mp3 player tonight.  its been two years since i've had one and being without music is quenching my soul.  but i digressed on paying $250 for a music player, i have other goals with which to save for. 

Theda Bara

the most famous silent film actress, and only behind charlie chaplin and the marx brothers in popularity, theda had roles in 40 known films.  theda is short for theodosia, a name i am particularly fond of, and of those 40 films, only 3 survive intact with us today.  the picture below is from the 1917 film Cleopatra

doubles

i saw my double on bart yesterday.  a guy, probably 29, looked like me, talked like me, yawned like me, has glasses like me, and so many other things, it was unbelievable.  the saying goes everyone has their twin out there, i just never thought i'd see mine.

showin respects

"the first blog entry...... i won't be selfish with the first piece so i'll use it to provide a link for one of my best friend's blog's.   so here it is:  http://runelogix.typepad.com/my_weblog/

much respect!  this supersonic funkmonkey never ceases to amaze me.  he knows more about more subjects than most people will in dozens of lives.  so believe me when I say you never know what to expect. cheers!" 

excellent review if i dont say so myself.  see more of erek at the competitions site here.

red cross knight, herbet spenser

LO I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
    As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
    Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske,
    For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
    And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
    Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long,
    Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
    To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song...

im totally serious...

seriously playing around with the idea of getting a sail boat.  a 20-30' pacific capable ship is in my price range, would be a hellava lot more affordable to live on, and great to take long term vacations up and down the coast on.   this has been an undefined dream of mine for years, with no concrete plans of ever happening, and now, it can. <<mood:  priceless>>

storage container organic farms

right on.  a company in deleware has designed a system of using old shipping containers to old to be used anymore into portable organic farming enviornments that can be used anywhere, even skyscrapers.  orgnitech website wired article, "Those storage containers would be ideal housing for miniature farms, he believes, stacked one upon another like an agricultural skyscraper, all growing fresh organic produce for millions of wealthy consumers. And since the crops would be grown with artificial lighting, servers, sensors and robots, the cost of labor would consist of a single computer technician's salary."

"OrganiTech can supply a complete set of robotic equipment plus greenhouse for $2 million. A system the size of a tennis court can produce 145,000 bags of lettuce leaves per year -- that's a yield similar to a 100-acre traditional farm. According to the company, it costs 27 cents to produce a single head of lettuce with its system, compared to about 18 cents per head of lettuce grown in California fields. Factor in the transportation costs and suddenly the automated greenhouse grower saves as much as 43 cents a head.  Add to that the fact that OrganiTech's system is entirely free of pesticides..."

commuting

my new activity on my commute is memorizing the lyrics of the strokes........

see, people they don't understand

no, girlfriends, they can't understand

Your grandsons, they won't understand

On top of this, I ain't ever gonna understand...

the best of times

i just woke up from a three hour sleep spell.  awakening, i gave thanks to the numerous, i mean numerous, number of blessings i have to be thankful for today.  more over, i've given and received so many impressions about myself in such a short period of time that words are completely inadequate to express, other than briefly mention, how strong an impact these last two days have been to collide with.  i still, however, have much to share.  i can say this weekend has turned out to have been the most fun i have had in aeons.  saturday started with the anti war march, my rough estimate is that 80,000 thousand people were there.  truly inspirational.  i was among the anarchist contingent for the march near the vanguard of the parade.  i was under realistic threat of arrest for some time as the street divided into two lanes, one for cars and one for the march and i happened to be in the lane obstructing traffic for a few blocks, oops.  from there, quite accidently i made it to the love parade.  certainly the most libertine event i have ever been to, underneith the welcoming gaze of city hall and other centers of civic government departments.  at last i had a great experience with electronic music which i have largely been out of touch with for the last two years.  i've uploaded many pictures here for those that wish to see them.  i spent the rest of sunday seeing a person i met get back home, walking a few miles around the city, city lights book store, resting beneath this great water fountain art piece at a park, and an hour at a pier watching the sailboats fly the bay.  tarot reading for the day were: defeat, suffering, and the queen of swords.  and now i rest 8-)  <<mood: ecstatic exhaustion.  i've never felt so good to be so tired and alive.>>