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8:38pm JST Tuesday 13 October 2009 (day 14447)

Wow. It's been several days since I've written. This morning we just got off a three day weekend, and just now I got off work and am headin' home on the ホームライナー, next stop, Fujisawa.

Um, it's getting cold. Maybe that has frozen my ability to write. Or maybe just been busy busy with work and chillin' in Chigs.

Latest projects:

  1. painting 80 x 60 cm. Actually drawing, and actually a bit smaller.

  2. creating an app for Facebook. Pffft. I wasn't able to get their hello world working in 10 minutes, without reading docs. Oh well.

  3. Got TJ Bike from my old apartment to Chez Soness!

Riding TJ Bike again was fun and made me hunger for more. And made me hungry for food! On Saturday, the guy didn't have TJ ready in time, so I waited around until he finished and then rode toward Chigasaki until it basically got too dark to make it to the next station on the line (~10km increments). I parked TJ Bike in a parking garage and then went to a restaurant called Bamiyan and had gyoza plus their drink buffet. I felt a bit cold so I really enjoyed their hot green milk tea.

Back to Totsuka on Sunday and rode TJ Bike the rest of the way home. Pretty much faster than I had expected. Stopped by the beach on the way home and found that my robot friend has escaped the sand! Super glad for him, but a bit sad for me that I didn't get to see him getting out of the sand. Oh well.

Went to see Caitlyn and TIPs performance of Little Shop of Horrors on Sunday (for the second time, as I had seen it with Soness et. al. on Friday). I probably wouldn't have gone a second time, but I had told my student Emiko that my tix were for Sunday. She got tix as well and then I was like, "wait I mean tonight!" but too late, so I just decided to go again. And see Caitlyn.

((( before any rumors start, let me now say that Caitlyn is married, has no idea I think she's cute, and there's nothing going on between us. We're not even friends on FB. I don't even have her phone number nor email address. Don't even know her last name. And anyway, I'm officially not dating anyone until I turn 15,000. )))

Stayed after the show to help strike the set. That involved a fair bit of unscrewing screws and a small bit of putting things on the lift and carrying stuff from the lift to the truck.

Walked with Kelly and Anastasia for a bit and then said bye as they turned right toward the bar to hang out with everyone, and I turned left toward the station to head home. I think next time I'll arrange to at least have the option to stay out late with the group. Living in Chigasaki means last train is pretty early. Like 11:30pm. I guess that's not *that* early, but maybe it would be fun to stay out later.

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9:03pm JST Tuesday 13 October 2009 (day 14447)

I've been thinking about the meaning of life, and, in my mind, have determined/realized/thought/noticed an interesting thing.

Not sure if I'll be able to put it succinctly or even at all, but let's see:

base axioms:

  1. we are experiencing the world from inside these monkey bodies

  2. consciousness lives independent of these monkey bodies

  3. we have free will

  4. there are no rules

tidbits I've picked up:

  1. faith based religions are based on making money moreso than anything else

bah; I'm already side tracked.

The end result idea was this: our job on earth is to do whatever we do, and be awake while we are doing it.

We could reach spiritual clarity by simply sitting and merging with consciousness, with no action

We could run around chasing what media tells us to chase with no spiritual clarity. (I think our culture leans a bit far to this side.)

Somewhere (in several places, I'm sure), there's a balance between that includes physical action and spiritual clarity.

I imagine that being physically active makes spiritual perception even more challenging, so meditation practice initially includes inactivity.

But all of this is still just mental masturbation. I still haven't perceived union with the epp.

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