Well, I have moved from Chicago to Houston, so now I need to re-ask the unanswered question about Chicago about Houston, instead.

Is anyone in this community familiar with a Yang style school/teacher in the Houston area that you could recommend? I found http://houstontaiji.com and sent the teacher and email but that was over a week ago with no reply, so I am looking for other options before giving him a phone call.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Sunny Fridays
http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Lounge-Renditions-Metallica-Black/dp/B000QFAF3Q
Cooking with Brian
Finishing up a large project at work that's been brewing for a while
Playing with my iPhone

My YouTube channel is for some reason popular in Brazil, I dunno why and maybe France though I've never been there.

Or Spain...

All the years of college and I never grajitated because I'd never get though the foreign language requirements. I hit my head and suddenly can read just enough French to get the drift of the passage.

It got so weird for a time I'd read French news just puzzled about why it was getting the message to me but in a different tongue.

I got my first Phish en François yesterday and kept it just because it made sense, not as it was intended to get me to click and contact them for this wonderful money making idea but I saw the words.

Go Phish.

I go back to Pain Management next Monday I feel like a wuss LOL.

They worked me in I had taken my summer sabbatical and wasn't supposed to come back until September brought the excessive aches back as the temperature drops but the constant background pain is white noise to me the steam burn on my arm I debreeded for two weeks the tissue is raised it has that odd shade of mike unlike the slight tan I tend to keep but I just didn't think of it as I scrubbed and it's unnoticeable I taught myself to do that as a child. Smack your thumb with a hammer and instantly think of anything other than the pain walk it off and boom there is no pain...

It works but it's like meditating and takes practice to get to that pinkish white place on the edge of pure nothing.

Anyways.

Lot's of heat and stretching and I feel everything is back in place in back and all the loose ends are tied up so I will see my Parents tomorrow.

And my favorite kid!



I have my walking shoes.

Ozzy getting rid of Zakk: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=123387

Makes sense, but woah!

Hrm... I think aztecknight should check this one out!

Aztec Temple May Yield Great Archaeological Treasure - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com

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This is where our wedding reception was - neat story of the history:
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x662536597/Stonehurst-tour-highlights-technology

My new favorite thing.

Catching some rare sunlight during my lunch break.

Although it wasn't my first time at a Phillies game in Citizens' Bank Park, it was my first time trying a Schmitter.



( Here's what mine looked like: )

This isn't the snippet of Achewood's Cornelius Bear's adventures that I was planning to write about today, but more urgent somatic matters forced my hand.

So, tonight, I stopped in at the Rite Aid near my terminal train stop (Yes! that sounds SERIOUS!) to buy a fan for work, and all the while I thought about this:


From Chris Onstad's Achewood

Not that my coworkers would make such comments; I am, in fact, the last one on the designer block to get a fan into their cubicle. Well, the last one minus my eight-month-plus pregnant coworker who was confined to bedrest two weeks ago before this strange inversion hit, with the kind of low-temp humidity that fraks and fnords with our building's HVAC.

I'm just struck that, in the week after July 4th, I have to go outside to cool off.

I did almost buy a little dildoish battery-operated fan ($1.99!) like Cornelius's, but I guess that because some people chopped off their fingers and earlobes with that first-Gen stuff, they now make the propellers out of some flimsy acetate crap like a pinwheel but without a pinwheel's intrinsic surface tension, so I had to spend ten dollars more to get something that plugs in and is adjustable and don't you wish you had just skipped over this post right now hah too late.

Anyway, being inside the building the last week was like this, with the kvetching and complaining (from me, mostly):


Yeah, I know, it's not that funny now, but back in the day,
we just shvitzed ourselves laughing about it, with the recursiveness about parody
and the Jesse Jackson comments about J/New York and 2 Live Crew hating on 2 Live Jew
and the whole wigger thing going on then and yeah you had to be there
man that was a time. You know how something's a touchstone for your youth
and it makes no goddamned sense for anyone now its okay don't worry bout it.

Yeah, it's been a weird week already enough.

And the small half of that weirdness? That the people who set the standards on how we translate the world from two- to three-codes into language and countries and whatever? Basically, "European" Europeans, with other people who went to graduate school in "Europe" Europe, not the U.S.? You know, like diverse people like Indians and Europeans and Middle Easterners and Latins and maybe other people who hang out at the U.N.? Okay, look at this language table and tell me if you see anything wrong with it. Besides the Klingon, which is pretty cool, actually. Seriously, I think that what's wrong with this table is that there needs to be another translating table, but I don't see a reference to one.

Moody Street's Name http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/waltham/2009/07/waltham_historic_days_how_mood.html

Restaurant Week http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/waltham/2009/07/restaurant_week_comes_to_walth.html

Armory: http://watchcityarmory.com/

The view as I sit and work, it could be much worse.

Man, some days I love letting the e-rage just rip....
http://community.livejournal.com/1fish_2fish/1663639.html?thread=13674903#t13674903


FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.....

Balancing the monthly budget was a regular habit of mine for years. I would keep old written records of my transactions and I would mark everything in my checkbook, tallying up the total at the end of each month to compare my final sum with the bank's computed figure.

As my home budget grew to become more complex, I let this regimen slip. Instead of tallying totals for one month, I was tallying for three or four. In time, a whole year passed and I began wondering if it was worth moving to a software application to save time while also gaining access to different views of my spending habits.

I still have not set that system up. When I had the security of a full-time job, it was not foremost on my mind. Now it is. Even with my financial history, quasi-conservative spending habits, and zero-sum credit card balances, I still have some debts that cause me to worry. The biggest one is the mortgage and the property taxes that are lopped on top of those payments. The second is health insurance, although it looks like I am eligible for a considerable discount that will have me paying only 35% of the actual premium. That really helps, because I wouldn't be able to afford COBRA coverage otherwise. The third worrisome expense is my car loan. I called the bank yesterday for payoff information and the figure they quoted was within the ballpark of what I was expecting. I just need to head over to the credit union tomorrow, print a check, and finally finish paying for my Civic.

It is never easy to think about closing out on larger balances with a limited budget. In the long run, however, I would rather remove the expenses I can now than pay interest on them later, even if that means my wallet is lighter and my free-market mannerisms become less flexible as I am looking for work and promoting creative writing ideas to publishers.