A Fool's Errand

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
— Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless)

This is my attempt at explaining how to "know thyself". Results may vary - use at your own risk!  Based on my own experience, intuition and imagination!

Democrastic Gridlock

This is something I wrote on FaceBook in response to some ideas on how to make the world a better, more just place to be human. A few people were advocating armed struggle while others advocated dismantling the Political Party system or encouraging people to drop off the grid.

Rioting would be fun (for a few minutes before the terror sets in) but in the end we would be left with a big mess, a big bill and a lot less freedom. As far as using 21st century technology to get off the grid, that's just silly, not to mention a bit of an oxymoron. But if you are bound and determined to get the hell out of Dodge then I say good riddance. Selfish quitters aren't likley to be much help in this struggle.

Can't Force It

"...i may not be able
to change the world i see
around me...but,
i can change the way
i see the world, within me."
- Brock Tully

Some things can't be forced. I look back over this month and last and I can't help but notice a significant reduction in my creative output. While I have been writing quite a bit elsewhere, I am still a little disappointed. I think one of the reasons I have published less here is because I have been trying to "direct" my writing too much. Instead of just "writing" I have been trying too hard to say something specific. I have learned (or should have) long ago that my writing doesn't quite work that way. 

I do have a number of partially completed essays that I hope to finish one day. In the mean time I will try and get back to "just writing" and maybe I can try and equal last months output again. I feel the fires building back up and I'm confident that I will not lack for inspiration if I maintain a little discipline.

I was thinking that one reason I've been less creative is because I've had a bit of the blahs (probably not unrelated to the cold I caught). It occurs to me now that this is all more reason to write! They are intermingled. I feel icky, I don't write. I don't write I feel icky. I feel good, I write. I write, I feel good. So I may as well write regardless of how I am feeling at the time. Sounds like a good plan to me.

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Work is a 4 letter word

I like to bring it back to Star Trek...

It is all too common to hear people bitching and moaning about how "they" are screwing everything up, and how much better everything would be if not for "them" and how "I had to do those terrible things I did because 'they' left me no choice."

Still Here

For some strange reason my phone decided to reset itself on Monday. I lost all data that wasn't in the cloud, which really sucked. Especially any appointments that I stored in outline tracker. A real drag all around. The phone did reload all my apps, and I didn't lose my contacts. I am now less in love with OT. I used to really love it, but the lack of decent cloud backup has really bitten me on the ass.

The phone had been acting little strange. I may have gone a little overboard on the homebrew. I loaded up pretty much everything that sounded interesting. What is weird is that none of my homebrew apps reloaded, but I still have some of the patches. I see battery as a %, and I have my apps in 4 columns, over 5 pages. Very strange overall.

I am still readjusting my lifestyle to my new home and my new tools. Hopefully I will only take me a month or two to straighten everything out. Until then I have no clue what my routine is going to look like. More will be revealed.

I have been trying to spend a little less time and energy on FaceBook, and it has been working. I am working on putting more discipline in my life, and FB is a perfect place to start. It's been a tiring week (moving especially), and I hope to be charged back up real soon.