Really....

Best quote of the day came from a little girl about 3 or 4 years old in a public place.

G: Mom, I farted (some what quiet)
M: Ok.
G: Mom, I farted (some what louder)
M: uhuh.
G: Mom, I farted (some what louder)
M: Ok. (now looking around)
G: Mom, I farted (really loud and giggly)
M: Ok..Ok...we are in public (very embarrassed)
G: (giggly)

Best part was the little girl had a brother who was about 10 and even he was embarrassed. As for me, it made my day.

Needless

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
-- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost

It's real.

Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso

Laundry

1 16GB USB Drive + 1 Washing Machine + 1 Dryer on Delicate = It still works.

This morning while getting a pair of pants out of the dryer for today I found my 16GB USB drive. I wondered what the clanking was. I figured it was a button or zipper. So this afternoon I plugged it in and it worked...amazing! Too bad my phone isn't that robust....

Edited (4/26/10): The phone didn't go through the washer but it has been dropped enough that the speakers no longer work for ring tones.

Sure do

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

The road map of my life

Nearly eight months ago on my birthday I reflected on a number of things that had occurred the previous 365 days. In the 229 days since then, it has been a bumpy washboard instead of a smooth highway. But sometimes, life is like that.

It is interesting when events in your life cause you to take a hard look at that road map. The picture on the left is the one moment in time that has set the latest direction in motion. Not many places on the planet can cause one to stop and reflect about choices, emotions and needs. That day, I took a hard left and have spent every day since wondering, thinking, being angry and arguing with the universe.

My belief system is that we are connected in more ways than one and that people come in and out of our lives not by coincidence but by design. We know when things are right and we know when things are wrong. We can try to fool and blind ourselves into thinking that something wrong is really right but after awhile, the supposed right will manifest that it is truly wrong. The most interesting piece of knowing is the influences of the personal sphere. The sphere is very powerful and believes it has your best interest at heart. While you have to be open to the knowledge of the sphere, it really all boils down to you and what you know.

When you come into your current life, there is a short reel playing letting you know the many aspects and facets that you need to look for. Some of those things are experiences and some of those things are people. At the moment that reel is done, you have the briefest of of time to capture it in your soul and set it up to tell you when you know. It is hard to explain to others because not everyone is open to it or ready to embody it for their current time. With this reel, it doesn't not mean things are predestined because at anytime that sphere can change the outcome with its influences and persuasions. In essence you will miss that moment or milestone and it will be captured in the reel for next time. You won't know you missed it. However, if you do manage through all of the influences and persuasions to have the experiences or meet those people, it truly brings the images of the reel into focus and you know.

Oh and the picture above was in my reel and I knew I would always get there. The thing I didn't know was that experience was the trigger point for somethings I knew and others I didn't. I am headed to the known and unknown.

Throwing Paint

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)

Half-truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
-- Tom Stoppard

Where I want to be today

I have Windows 7 on my desktop at work and I have compiled a bunch of themes into one that has a lot of pictures of landscapes and animals from all over the world. It helps to make my day go a little bit better sometimes. After a night of very little sleep this was a great picture to start my day with. It is a beach at Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

Essential part

Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.
-- Tarthang Tulku

Happy Easter

Wow.

Welcome to April 1st. Some how the last three months flew by. I can basically tell you that it was a blur. There have been good days, bad days and days I wanted to hit the reboot button. Unfortunately there is no reboot button for life. There were moments when I wished the filters worked better but hey maybe that is part of the problem. What is wrong with being direct? People need to get their shorts out of a knot. I know you don't want to hear non-sugar coated things no matter what. Oh well.

Today is April 1st. It will be interesting over the next 3 months.