blog (April, 2004)
esther needs a bus
i am looking for a bus to go traveling for one month in eu!! it is very dificult to finding a good bus and not to expencive! so if you thinke to send me a other package. i need a bus.
-e
Happiness at Work
"I think if we make a special effort to cultivate good relationships with people at work, get to know the other people, and bring our basic good human qualities to the workplace, that can make a tremendous difference. Then, whatever kind of work we do, it can be a source of satisfaction. Then you look forward to going to work, and you are happier there. You think, Oh, I'm going to work to see my friends today!" The Dalai Lama exclaimed with such an exuberant tone that I could almost picture him showing up at the factory, lunch pail in hand, greeting his co-workers this way.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., The Art of Happiness at Work
Boston Marathon Live Update
108th Boston Marathon
At 3:10:48 PM, Jeff Schuler (Bib 2451) Finished
Pace: 0:07:13
Official Finish Time: 3:09:50
Net Finish Time: 3:08:52
Boston Marathon Live Update
108th Boston Marathon
At 2:08:30 PM, Jeff Schuler (Bib 2451) At 30K
Pace: 0:06:51
Projected Finish Time: 2:59:28 (Net)
Boston Marathon Live Update
108th Boston Marathon
At 1:28:50 PM, Jeff Schuler (Bib 2451) At Halfway Point
Pace: 0:06:42
Projected Finish Time: 2:55:32 (Net)
Boston Marathon Live Update
108th Boston Marathon
At 12:43:10 PM, Jeff Schuler (Bib 2451) At 10K
Pace: 0:06:48
Projected Finish Time: 2:58:09 (Net)
blown out on the trail
I'm finally about to get this stupid marathon done with -- that's been lurking, creeping eversoslowly these last four months, and now BAM!
Well, Monday is gonna be the bam.
Be the BAM.
This morning I packed up half my room into the car, and drove afternoon Cleveland-Rochester. Soon to bed. Tomorrow morning the parents and I hop in the car and off to Boston, and Monday the footrace. Foo-trace.
Lovely weather we should be having. The 81°F high that weather.com was forecasting has dropped to a chilly 76°, though, so that's a good trend. Keep pushin'.
Each runner wears an RFID chip attached to her or his shoe for official timing. This year the Boston Athletic Association is providing racers with the opportunity to send live timing reports to six email addresses or mobile devices -- at 10k, halfway, and 30k, and finish.
I set up a supersecret email address to receive these updates and wired it up to this'a'here site using Sebastian Delmont's MTMail, so those performance updates will appear here as entries when I and my bib #2451 passes through the checkpoints. The race starts at noon Monday. I'd better get my ass across the finish line under 3 hours. I was 3 seconds over last time in Dublin, and I won't let that happen again.
Nice utility, though, that Verizon & the marathon organizers are providing. My parents will receive these text updates to their phones so they have some idea of where along the way I've burned out from exhaustion, or am buried in the hail. Smart mobs, man. Smart mobs.
Still trying to decide whether to follow Duncan's suggestion to bring slips of paper with me during the race to pass out my phone number to goodlooking onlookers (or onlooking goodlookers) around the Wellesley College area.
Look for me afterward. I'll be the guy at Legal Seafood drooling on his lobster and falling asleep in his beer.
necesarily vomitous
People must be so empty of all things and all works, whether inward or outward, that they can become a proper home for God, wherein God can operate.
-- Meister Eckhart
I am so far from empty. My stomach is full, and I keep stuffing things down my gullet. My head spins with a new).(old idea every moment; each one's secret purpose to find another to keep me occupied, pacified and distracted. Who's acting against who?
What happened to patience and equanimity?
A momentary glimpse of reason, gone.
without moving a muscle
The Masters get the job done without moving a muscle
and get their point across
without saying a word.When things around them fall apart,
they stay cool.
They don't own much,
but they use whatever's at hand.
They do the work
without expecting any favors.
When they're done,
they move on to the next job.
That's why their work is so damn good.-- Ron Hogan's modern interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.
Patience and Equanimity
It's rare, the day at work when I don't feel dwarfed by the knowledge I'm supposed to have a handle on, and by those around me. My boss codes like a lunatic, and I doodle around from one thing to the next.
I have to remember that all it takes is some time put in with the system, and then I'll have a similar grip of apparent mastery. Dedicated, concentrated time. Unfortunately, I don't yet have that luxury.
No, wrong. I'm not making the time or dedication, or really practicing at concentration.
I read more of Lost Horizon while pedaling the exercise bike after work. Patience and equanimity. Time...; stop running about.
Tonight I ate my late dinner by myself, in a chair, in front of the TV -- turned off. No book, no music. I ate. Then I sat.
This is good practice. Walk. Pay attention to walking. Talk. Pay attention to talking. There'll be time to read, time to think about work. If I keep each action on its own, I'll be devoting to it all of myself, and therefore acting with more efficacy.
Anyho, I'll surely find my way to something else before I have an extremely solid handle on this coding. That's my way.
Stop wanting stuff
If you can talk about it,
it ain't Tao.
If it has a name,
it's just another thing.Tao doesn't have a name.
Names are for ordinary things.Stop wanting stuff;
it keeps you from seeing what's real.
When you want stuff,
all you see are things.Those two sentences
mean the same thing.
Figure them out,
and you've got it made.-- Ron Hogan's modern interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.