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Posted in life on Jul 31st, 2006
On a whim a week or two ago I ordered a package of “LIVESTRONG” bracelets and a bright yellow tee-shirt. At the time my thinking was, I know four people in my immediate family who were either impacted by, or died from cancer. After having the bracelet for a few days it occurs to me [...]
I continue to lose weight at a surprising rate. Yesterday morning the scale read two-thirty-three, which is seventeen pounds lighter than when I started in early June. It appears that the Eat Less Do More ™ diet actually works. I’ve been averaging about 1400 calories a day now and that seems to be enough less, [...]
Posted in life on Jul 30th, 2006
In my conversations with a friend, she made the statement that she wasn’t sure I was ready for a new relationship. Companionship, certainly, but relationship – maybe not. Her statement echoed thoughts of my own. How do you know when you are ready, following a trauma, to rejoin that part of life the trauma impacted? [...]
Posted in life on Jul 30th, 2006
Posted in relationships on Jul 28th, 2006
Meeting people through a computer services has pluses and minuses. One of the biggest minuses is the totality of the end of communication. Once either party moves the match to “closed” the other party is helpless. Over the past few days I have been exchanging messages with a woman who I found to be very [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jul 27th, 2006
This entry here at zanshin.net world domination headquarters is the thousandth since we starting counting back in December 1999. Clever readers may note that the posting URL actually says one thousand fifty three. Turns out that Movable Type, the content management system employed by el presidente for life Mark, uses the same pool of numbers [...]
Posted in social issues on Jul 27th, 2006
Posted in life on Jul 26th, 2006
In the book, and the movie, The World According To Garp there is a scene were young T. S. Garp is at the ocean’s edge and his mother yells to him to, “Beware the undertow!” The sound of the waves make it hard to hear so what Garp thinks she said was, “Beware the undertoad!” [...]
Posted in family on Jul 25th, 2006
Nine years ago this evening I was at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding. Friends and family had gathered from Florida, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Illinois to help us celebrate the occasion. The experience was heady and surreal, exciting and scary, wonderful and beautiful. Nine years ago tomorrow, July 26, was my wedding day. I was [...]
Several nights ago I had a very vivid dream about getting a tattoo. So vivid that I am still remembering it even now. The gist of the dream was that someone else (I don’t remember who), and I, decided to get full-lenght tattoos of pastel flames up our arms. The ink started at our wrists [...]