So I’ve heard recently that walking is actually a treatment for depression. I don’t have depression, but walking the pooch of late has been helping me clear the cobwebs out something awesome. One our nightly constitutionals I’ve been seeing some thigns, I’m gonna have to start sharing.
Alright now its bee a while since I’ve had a dog but what is with all these people walking their massive dogs, Doberman’s Mastiffs ect without leashes… and then eyeballing me and getting all huffy because they can’t control their dog while my little mutt is around. I have a leash… you’re being the ass.
Also petite women who walk massive dogs, even with the leash if your pooch isn’t trained you shouldn’t be walking it. I’m sorry but I’ve seen too many petite ladies of late getting pulled down the street after a squirrel or errant pigeon. If your dog is closer to horse size you might want to consider training them… just saying.
I have plenty of stories, and more coming out each night so stay tuned for some good ones.
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I have a ton of ideas. The problem is that being a perfectionist, and a self conscious one at that i don’t want to release anything into the wild that isn’t my best work. Which leaves a lot of possibly interesting projects on the cutting room floor.
The only time i pushed through was when i started the CaffiNation Podcast, i pushed through for over 40 episodes before it matured into something i can not only be proud of, but that i enjoy doing. I guess I need to find a way to put the lightning back into the bottle and try again with some of these miscellaneous projects that keep piling up into the ideas folder, without ever making it out the door.
I have found that the courage to drop a new idea onto the world often gets overtaken by my fear of failure… Guess I have something to work on from here on out.
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Google Wave is coming, and its going to be neat,
so as part of the signup they suggested you write some poetry. Here are my offerings at a Haiku, (1) and a poorly formed, begging sonnet (2)
1.)
Communication
Connects us to each other
Humanity’s Gift
2.)
In this diverse world we find ourselves in,
Communication is our only link,
A Tense connectivity on the brink,
Of real interaction beyond our kin.
Like minded people flock to a feather,
A simple solution begs to be found,
Where do we find this hidden, common ground,
A Nebulous place fickle as weather.
Social Networking, faddish term its true,
Yet it speaks to a longing for meaning,
A Subtle whisper, gentle leaning,
Towards community with very small clues.
Online world, changing from city to cave
I would like an invite to google wave!
Just wanted to share with the group. Vogon Stlye
Nothin’ says lovin’ like sharing bad poetry
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I love stupid mind games, anything to help pass the time while my physical body is stuck some place, doctors appointment, walking the dog etc.
I used to play a game where you would change the victor of a past war or conflict and see what going forward would shift. Got pretty interesting but more often than not everyone became a nazi, and things got bad.
My newest mental gymnastic is to transpose characters from one movie onto another, by the same actor. Now watch the movie with the transposed character taking the scenes.
Need an example? Take Dr Octopus played by Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2. Alfred also played Bishop Manuel Aringarosa in the Davinci Code. Now Imagine the sinister bishop with metal arms at a key point of the movie…
Sticking with the extrapolation you could substitute Tom Hanks’ character Professor Robert Langdon with Forrest Gump, or for more a challenge Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own. So now you either have an epic battle of wits between an ordained evil mad scientist and a serendipitous challenged symbolist, or a cantankerous drunk college professor.
The more characters you sub in and out the more interesting it can get. Christopher Lambert always ends up an an immortal for some reason. Highlander and Mortal Combat, give Raiden a Sword and there you go.
Last one Take Ramierez from the Highlander and add him into Bond movies, its always a hoot. You can’t beat Bond he just doesn’t die!
I didn’t say it would be earth shattering but these are the type of things i think about while stuck in traffic. Enjoy
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You want to know the secret of my power? Its not coffee as you would expect. Come a little bit closer…
Its shoes. I don’t collect them or buy expensive ones. I need to wear them to function. If I spend the day sitting around the house without them on you can bet you bottom dollar not much got done. I can’t explain what trigger lies deep within my head that says when my feet are covered its time to get things done. But it is real and exists.
So today as my last day home from an extended medical leave from the office. I put the shoes on in the hopes of getting some writing done. Hey this article alone puts me over the average from the last week combined… which is really sad. Otherwise I’m a world champion duff sitter.
Cup of coffee in hand and a pair of sneakers on my feet I’m ready to tackle the world. or at least give it a good run for its money. Wish me luck.
Tags: duff · Shoes · TKOB
That much is true. I’m generally able to bounce back rather quickly from surgery, injury or pretty much anything life has thrown at me up to this point. Which is why i sit here in my PJ pants dumbfounded. My mind feels fine, when i don’t move i feel fine. but as soon as i move everything goes back to the surgery from last week.
I had a surgery to remove a cyst / tumor from my body last week, the cyst was in a very sensitive area and i was quite embarrassed about it for a while. the good news was that it wasn’t cancer! which is all the news i should need, the bad news is that i still need to recover from the actual surgery to remove it.
I’ve had a ton of surgeries in my life, so many i forget them when I’m giving a medical history. At this point i can’t remember if its 12 or 15, mostly orthopedic. I’m already on my second chart in my general practitioners office, and I’m only 29. Other people have a lot more serious issues wrong with them than i do, with me its just an accumulation of small issues over the years.
Right before surgery on an otherwise well body i always take a mental step back and think to myself ‘alright Paul this is going to be the best you feel for the next couple weeks… are you ready?’ the answer is never yes but the surgery always goes off as planned.
So i now sit in another forced period of recuperation thinking i should be able to do more than I can but not being able to. I’ll try to write to pass the time, i still have a good start on a book that needs to be finished but i can’t sit too long either… sigh Video games here i come
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My wife and I suffer from the same issue. More often than not the weather has a tendency to affect our mood in rather dramatic fashions. Rainy weekends are horrible all around and dark dreary weekdays even more so.
This past weekend had one lone spot of difference I spent Sunday morning fishing, in the rain. It has been said that a bad day fishing is better than a good day working. Sunday proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt. After returning home I kept my messy clothes on and spent some time in the backyard planting flowers in the rain and playing with my son in the mud. The only thing i didn’t do was mow the lawn, because i wasn’t fixing to get electrocuted.
Meet Larry, the new denizen of our garden. I shouldn’t get so excited about a silly garden gargoyle, but i did. I felt more than a little recharged, i just wished that the effect had carried over into the week.
Monday was no different weather wise still rainy, still miserable. But for some reason i couldn’t shake it. I think i need to start going back to the gym at lunch spread my wings a bit. Or keep a picture of Larry on the desktop
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Every year as the students go through their finals production on most aspects of my digital life slows to a crawl, my brain just can’t take any more information, and i usually end up with a headache by 10am. So when i get home gone is the impulse to write about inanity, confusion or the funny that i have seen. Its replaced by a longing for fishing, video games or the garden. Rest assured that production will pick back up.
On a side note life likes to throw you curve balls all the time, especially when you’re looking for a fastball down and in. A couple of years ago without thinking I scheduled a wedding to a certain lovely lady right after the semester ended. Its a great time for a honeymoon but a horrible time at the end of the semester to try and finish planning the blessed event.
This year I’m going a bit further and I’ve having a small medical issue taken care of right after the semester. Nothing is horribly wrong but the doctor said I might be recovering for a couple weeks. which means time away from work and even less productionon the digital. I’m going to see if i can muster up enough energy to pre-record something for a little bit. Perhaps even schedule a couple of extra blog posts to fire off while I’m on the mend, its all wishful thinking at this point. but i guy can dream can’t he.
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I would love to blame our family’s problems over the past week or two on the current popular disease. But i can’t first off it wouldn’t be true and secondly it wasn’t nearly that serious.
The problem was that we had layers of sickness roll through the house. Luckily I only tapped onto one of the waves. unluckily the wife got caught between the two.
The losses were a couple of days of work between the two of us, and countless hours of awesome weather wasted inside sleeping. It just so happened that we picked the hottest most wonderful weekend of the year so far to go down for the count.
I know there will be more weekends and I know there will be hotter ones but as everyone in the house is trending healthy right now this weekend coming up looks like rain.
Tags: better · just plain sick · sick · swine flu
The cyclical nature of the universe is not in doubt here but rather get proven time and time again in our ours. The wave of sickness rolls through the Muller house a bit more frequently now that the little man in in daycare, but roll it does.
I switched themes recently to a much simpler theme by Information Architects The layout of the theme is base on the Golden Section, the Fibonacci series in web form. The new crisp design had me thinking forward to the next part of the cycle where everyone is happy, and healthy, Can’t wait for that.
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