blog (August, 2005)
among opiners
café-chatterers. save the world. blame everyone. "kids these days..."
But the chief ground of Skepticism is that to every reason there is an opposite reason equivalent, which makes us forbear to dogmatize.
-- Sextus Empiricus
bellefaire biathlon try2 report
nightbefore:
bikeprep, carprep, foodprep, supplyprep, bodyprep
morning:
earlyrise, banana/cereal bedcrumbs, napAgain, re-rise, hotShowerOpen
packCar, detour, trancemusic
forgot shoes -- stop at work : extra pair, double espresso
late late!
change at stoplights
lot-full; grass-park
just-in-time registration
roadmachine tree-lean for Act II
restroom release
startline mid-star_stripe_anthem, badposition.
race:
one-by-one reel-in relax
caffeine shortbreath
2nd place at transition
upshift downhill backarch lookalert flagturn headdrive draftbehind spinoff
passed, passed, passed, away
end in 7th
better'n last_yr.
tire swingin
Enjoying the new digs. Last few hours today spent at Civilization for the TWiFi, trying to catch up on inet fun that's slid out from under me lately while I've been without connection at the new home.
A few neighborhood network extensions to note...
Met my first Tremont vigilante/visionary last week. Guy plies his trade, with K-9 partner Yogi Yoga Bear, from streetcorner -- lately, on Lincoln Park -- selling the Homeles Grapevine news, and talking with anyone and everyone. Former veteran, ex-vista, and self-avowed neighborhood watchman and activist, he is fiercely independent, works within/without the community, perhaps overly conspiracy-cautious? He knows we're extraterrestrial clones... Yao, yas look forward to future interaction.
Last night, I joined Adam, of Tremonter.com for a couple pint-stops on his Guinness in Tremont Pub Crawl. Talk of neighborhood hotspots, etymology, running, blogs, onlychilding, and hosecleaning. Good impetus for to get back into electro personal pursuits.
inclineth
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
-- Sir Francis Bacon, Of Atheism
formulaic prebirth be still
as languish and flourish is flowering of language
For one more or less free bar, there are twenty which suffocate under the weight of a tradition, whose hypocritical and base influence, in spite of my efforts, I keep encountering.
-- Claude Debussy (1911)
renewal, the old anew;
typical dips and swirls:
time~scale trials and tributaries
(hermetic/hermitic)
murky mercurial mischief.
emergency?
a mergence, see-
saw
stop!
--midair, midpoint, interjection:--
a breath for composure, a bin for compost, and a bend for posture
hanging
- out,
- around, and
- in the balance
full tonight
preemptive fool again
bid for empty
gobbled...
A year-ago-today's excerpt from my foodlog.
2004-08-16
- 1 chai tea w/ milk
- 1 bowl of muesli cereal w/ milk (before leaving home)
- 1 coffee (w/ troubled man on street)
- 3 bananas (pressed to rush right when I got to work; gobbled... silly)
- 1 espresso (nice!)
- 2 bananas
- 1 coffee
- 1 bananas
- 1 apple
- 4 or 5 small pretzels
- 1 huge rice/bean/veggie/cheese/etc burrito from Que Tal (burrito was good and I will probably digest it all just fine, but I would've felt much better had I spaced things out a lot more)