| Looking at this journal, I can see that the last time I even posted here was well over a year ago. I'm not sure how often I'll post even now since my life is just as boring now as it was then. I figure sometimes what I need to say would take more than 140 characters and I guess that this is the "forum" for that.
So, what now? Is blogging about my boring life really that important? I can see that livejournal underwent some changes since the time I was last on here. However, the interface is mostly the same. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Reading blogs of other people, I see that excitement is what happens to other people. My life is rather mundane, if you can call it a life. I don't go out, I don't travel and I don't run into interesting people. I guess I'm just.... boring. | comments: Leave a comment   |
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Most people know this story already, but for the few who don't know/don't care, I will re-iterate it one more time.
My nickname in college was 'slug'.. not very original but it fit me. I worked slowly at things, but I got it done. Usually the slowness was due to procrastination, but that's a whole other story.
Anyway, I discovered in the early 90's that 'Limaceous' means 'of or like a slug', and I thought that was cool. Anyway, the Latin root of that word is Limax, which is what I changed my online user name to, and now I've been using it for more that 15 years, going on 20.
How exciting is that? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Johnny Cash IV - The Man Comes Around | | Current Location: | work | | Security: | | | Subject: | Ffuts | | Time: | 04:21 pm | | Current Mood: |  peaceful |
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| I'm starting to feel more back to normal now. I still have some soreness, but not like it was earlier in the week. All I can do is keep plugging forward and make sure I don't relapse. It frustrates me that when I try to stretch how much my stomach prevents me from making a full stretch. I cannot remember the last time I was able to do a sit-up. It's almost like I have a stop block that prevents full motion... which it what I really have.
Karate has suddenly got tougher now after my last promotion. I'm expecting to think more about what I'm doing instead of just going through the motions.. and I'm really loving it. I feel like I'm exercising my mind in addition to my body. I can't wait to see how much tougher it gets. As I move closer to black, I become more aware of how much I have left to learn. Wow. I'm also going to go to a Tai Chi class tonight. I've been looking for a way to focus/meditate to help with the stress, and this may be it.
Not much more to say except that I was mistaken yesterday about the Tour de California. They came through yesterday. I saw the aftermath as I went over part of the course they followed yesterday. I saw three bicyclists off on the side of the road. I'm guessing flats since they didn't seem to be scraped up at all from falling. Still, that was kind of cool. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Janis Ian - Folk is the New Black | | Current Location: | work | | Security: | | | Subject: | Ooooh... water | | Time: | 01:22 pm | | Current Mood: |  thirsty |
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| I think I've seen the sun a couple of times today, but it wasn't visible on my drive in this morning. That might have been due to getting to work before sunrise. I experienced flooded roads this morning, something I haven't experienced for probably close to 6 or 7 years, which was the first year we were in our last rental. I remember trying to get our of our neighborhood was incredibly difficult due to the flooded roads... talking about a foot of water or so. To those of us who don't deal with it on a regular basis, it adds a bit more fun to the commute... especially when one splashes up beside you. I know I "bottomed out" a couple of times driving through water this morning, but it was drivable. Going home will be interesting, though.
Tomorrow the Tour de California people come through our neck of the woods. They've had signs up about the upcoming road closures. They'll be by between noon and 2pm, so it's not going to affect me. I'm glad for their sakes that they're not going over Mt Hamilton this year... it's got more snow that it's seen in a while. In the meantime, we have more of the wet stuff, and it's supposed to last for a while. No complaints here. I'm hoping that it'll relieve some of the drought conditions we've experienced. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet | | Current Location: | work | | Security: | | | Subject: | Wet Weather and Arthritis | | Time: | 10:25 am | | Current Mood: |  moody |
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| Well, back in Northern California and it's supposed to be raining all week. This is wreaking havoc on my knees. As some people already know, when I went hiking a week ago, my right leg (the one I injured 20 years ago) decided to buckle on me on a pretty steep part and I ended up falling and almost slid off a "cliff" (I think it was roughly 15 feet to the ground, probably less. I didn't go down below to measure it) As a result, the knee swelled back up and I didn't have full range of motion for almost a week, although I was able to walk "normally." It finally cleared up about Thursday of last week. However, my left leg decided to start giving me trouble on Saturday. Did I mention that it's been raining almost constantly since I got back from Southern California? So, now I have a swollen left knee and don't have full range of motion in it either.
I'm sure this comes from favoring the right leg for a week (unconsciously, of course). I'm just tired of the constant pain, not only from the legs, but also my back and neck. The warm weather can't get here soon enough for me. I'm going to try and do some exercise this week so that I can be in shape for the next marathon or whatever comes my way, and I need to lose some weight before riding roller coasters at the end of March. What a fun time to be me. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| My last week in Southern California for a while. It's been okay this week, although I wish there was more I could contribute. My part, unfortunately, requires on a bunch of other parts happening first. They aren't happening, so I'm not happening.
My wife called me up this morning. She had been reporting that the kids were a bit more cranky than usual. As it turns out, that 100% natural (or maybe it said 100% juice) juice that we bought wasn't completely all that. Turns out there was Red 40 in it for color. So my kids were getting a bit of what I should be putting in my car. Hopefully by the time I return on Friday, they will be back to "normal"
I haven't made it down to the beach yet this trip. I'm going to try to get down there at least once to do some walking. Maybe tonight after work, or tomorrow. I found a kite store down here so I'm going to stop by tonight and see what I can see. Ah well. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yup... I'm back in the LA area again. Only two days this week, and five next week. We're supposed to get rain sometime today, which will be good for our dry state. I'm starting to look ahead to Spring Break and beyond. I'm debating whether or not I want to take some time off then and really deplete my vacation reserve. I get nervous if it falls below 20 hours. My mom's going to be gone, so one of us will have to stay home to watch the kids... and we might just make it both of us and go somewhere. No decisions have been made yet.
Other than that, I'm looking for a new event that I can train for. The Bay to Breakers is in May, but that's a bit far out. I don't know if I can find something sooner or not. Here's hoping. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Tribal Winds | | Current Location: | work | | Security: | | | Subject: | Yacky Smof Grbl Mfrg | | Time: | 07:48 am | | Current Mood: |  contemplative |
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| I'm back on the road again starting tomorrow morning. Down to LA for two days this week, and five days next week, with a weekend home in between. Not much really to talk about beyond that.
I tried out Microsft Songsmith for the first time over the weekend. I'm a bit ambivalent toward it. I played my Native American Flute into it to see what chords it would produce. It did a fairly good job of putting chords to the music, but some of the selections made me scratch my head. Also, trying to adjust anything is not as easy as the videos make it seem. Also, there's no way to really get a 'written' score of what you want since it seems to be produced for the YouTube set who like making videos of themselves doing all sorts of things. I still have about 5 hours left to go on my free trial, but from what I see so far, I don't know if I'll pay the $30 to get the "full" version.
I've been tasked to produce a couple of pieces for our handbell choir. One's a Christmas piece and also doing a piece for bells/chimes and Native American Flute. Maybe when I'm sitting around my hotel room this week I'll feel the urge to get started on these. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | The Celts Rise Again | | Current Location: | work | | Security: | | | Subject: | Weekend Post-Mortem | | Time: | 02:32 pm | | Current Mood: | content |
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| It was a full weekend. We were pretty busy at the garage sale on Saturday. I think our longest lull was about 5 minutes the whole day. Still, the morning managed to drag. Did I mention how much I hate garage sales?
After I went and picked up the signs that I'd posted, we had a quick lunch before heading over to the church to meet our new pastor candidate. He's a pretty nice fellow... and he impressed me by remembering my name after only hearing it once. And for once, I wasn't doing anything to stand out in the crowd. Based on what I heard him say in that meeting, I was leaning toward accepting him as our pastor. I took the kids home after that, and I pretty much rested and blew off steam until church the next morning.
When I got there, I found out that I was going to play bells in a different spot from where I rehearsed last Sunday. It only threw me for a second... it was the spot that I'd rehearsed in three weeks before... so it didn't take me long to adjust. We got to hear the candidate do the children's sermon and the sermon. He was quite an engaging speaker, and I could see listening to him week after week. After the service was over, we voted after hearing the final report from the nominating committee. The final tally was 324 yes, 3 no and 1 abstain. I would say that most people thought the same way I did.
So, now we have a new head pastor, who will start in May. As a result of how long the day went, I was unable to get over to the QRP meeting, which made me a little sad, since one of our members had just passed away from cancer. Bell practice really wasn't anything special. We got to play a couple of new songs and I didn't have to stay on the bass bells the whole time.
I'm glad now to get back to the 'relaxing' environemnt of work... although I head back to Southern California on Wednesday again. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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