Mere mortals

Today I'm 29........yeash.  Friends tell me that 30's are where it's at, I hope they're right. Seems that my 20's just flew by. It's hard to pin point any particular year, they all seem to have melted together into one.  

In another sad display of being a mere mortal I have opened a Face Book account. Yes I suppose I'm a hypocrite also. 

Have you ever gazed upon a summer night sky and beheld the full moon in all it's glory? 

Have you ever stared upon it's cratered beauty and lost yourself in the Sea of Tranquility?

In this bliss have you ever gazed upon your moon house and wondered on how to sneak to it?

What the hell is a moon house?

N E How

I suppose I should succumb. 

I really have felt no desire to post or at least not post what's been on my mind. I wish I had some cool picture to post, perhaps some avant-garde poetry or a edgy video I had edited myself. Alas I have none of these things. One of these days I shall find something I'm good at and blow the unsuspecting world's mind. Until then I shall continue to bore you with nonsense like this.

Life has been busy though. I seem to perpetually be playing a game of catch-up. Be it bills, work, kids, climbing  etc. I feel completely spread thin and no good to anyone. I suppose as long as I still have the ability to poke fun at the rest of the world I'm ok......if that ever goes I'm lost.

4 days off

Thanksgiving was great! I suppose an update might be nice............. well, keep an eye out. 

You hardly ever know.

Moving and meltdown.

I've been absent a long time.....

Perhaps with or without a valid excuse. I've never been one to write my lack of posting off to busyness. Not that I haven't been busy....I have, yet, one makes time for what one wants to make time for.

I moved over this weekend. A daunting task(shout out to my dawgs :Mike, Jamie, and Ben). The amount of crap that one accumulates over a year is astounding. I fancied myself a minimalist up to this point. My move was complicated my the fact that I had chosen an apartment on the third floor. The understood hardship of moving all my belongings up three flights had been diminished by the prospect of not having to wait in line for the bathroom and not to mention the convenience of things like storage space and vaulted ceilings.....(OK vaulted ceilings probably don't offer convenience but they can really open a room up).

Today the Dow Jones shot up around 9 hundred points. For some reason, upon hearing the news, I felt happy at first and then rather peeved. I was mainly annoyed that I've been alloying a group of greedy hypocondriacs set my mood for the day. Who knows what they'll do tomrrow to get the rest of us to worry ourselves silly.......I'm sick of it really.

So I'm lazy......

Don't click here....

Hello

If I could sleep I would..........

Instead of tossing and turning all night I figured a post might bore me, and perhaps you, enough to bring a deep sleep on.

I've hit a spot in my life where writing has become such a chore....as have most things. I seemed to be foiled at all angles. It seems for me, and I'm sure many others share my view, nothing will ever come easy. I'm not one to expect things to just fall in your lap but come on.....(maybe a vote for Obama will bring the change I need)

I've made a resolution (again) to start eating healthy and develop a training routine for climbing. Lately my lifestyle has not been conducive to climbing i.e eating crap, no consistent exercise, going to bed late, drinking. All this coupled with the physical toll my daily work requires has left me little energy by the time I hit the wall.

In other news: I ordered a new phone today. One of those walkie talkie hybrids. I'm sure it will be really cool for about a day or so.

Where have you been?

We have been inconvinient.
Semi-blind, perpetually one second behind
Self-preservation turns to vanity and vantiy to lies.
We trade a chance of happiness for safety.
And there we stay, huddled, scared to look outside.
Settling to expirience each other muted and blurred, in snips.
We've cut our losses.

Phobias

Here are few phobias I thought interesting. See if anyone can guess what they are. Should be easy enough.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.(.......and their computer chips)

Ithyphallophobia.( sometimes a fear of mine)

Eurotophobia.(not usually something I fear)

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.( The Greeks had a strong sense of irony)

My mind is a fit throwing 3 year old with ADD.



Oh yeah!..........Happy New Year!

Note to self:

Always check the washing machine for disposable diapers.
Failure to do so could result in dire consequences.

So far I have not lifted a finger to anything about Christmas decorating. I actually just recently took the rotten corps of what was the Jack-O-Lantern off my porch after Kylie looked out there and informed me that he was dead.
If it was up to me I wouldn't bother decorating. It's not like I entertain anyone at my place. Being a parent I do feel obliged to put forth some effort in making Christmas special.

So I figure I should start with a tree of some sort. Come to think of it I haven't had to pick out a tree in quite some time. I always just left it up to room mates.

So the big question is at hand. Do I buy a live tree and let it fill the house with the lovely scent that freshly butchered trees give, along with the needles? Or do I buy one that comes in a box along with the feeling that I just lost part of my soul, but can be reused for year and years to come, thus saving the lives of perhaps dozens of happy little trees?

So now I will contemplate the choice at hand while creating a new definition for pathetic: Eating a microwave chicken pot pie, alone, on a Saturday evening, while listening to sappy alt rock.

Sometimes + = -

I got a pay raise last week. A meager 1.4 percent. Not one to complain too much, after all 35 cents an hour more can add up.... well a little. Assuming I work 40 hours a week that would add up to 14 dollars more every payday. 14 dollarsa week could pay for a gym membership or maybe cable t.v. or a case of beer...OK a case of cheap beer(Natty Ice?)

Turns out it all was elaborate scheme cooked up by my dear old Uncle Sam and his toadies down at the IRS. By giving me this pittance of a raise they have all too slyly bumped me up to the next tax bracket which means that they will "legally" get to take my well deserved 14 dollars a week as well as about 80 cents that was initially mine to take home.

Bummers dude....

Die Emo kids!(It's ok I think they want to)

I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Watch this. For more info on Emo go here.

Five years

Could be an album cover for the worst christian rock band ever.
Could also be an album cover for the worst christian rock band ever.

Flexibility

One thing about climbing is that once you start you begin to get these urges to climb everything in sight,this may include building columns, trees, telephone poles or your living room walls.

Yesterday I thought it would be fun to climb between the walls of my hallway and move down the length of it as close to the ceiling as possible...you know like ninjas do in movies. I happened to be in my underpants as well. All was going well till I came to my bathroom doorway and tried to maneuver around it. Unfortunately I have not mastered the art of climbing down hallways and fell about 7 ft to the ground with a thud. Luckily my son was the only other person in the house, and he just came of of his room and gave me a look that seemed to express embarrassment, disbelief and amusement all at once.

I've recently, after much slacking, made a serious effort to start climbing again, mainly bouldering. After an intense week or two I've come to the realization that I am stuck at a mediocre level and that I lack the flexibility to advance to the next level. Luckily my local rock gym offers a yoga class for climbers. So I made a commitment to go in once a week.....heh.

I'll keep you posted.

Feliz Dia de Guajolote

Happy Thanks G to one and all. I'm thankful to have family and friends. I'm thankful that my health is intact and that I haven't lost any limbs this year. And today I'm especially thankful for coffee....good, sweet life giving coffee.

Now excuse me while I express my deep thanks and gratitude by stuffing my face with goodies.

Things I would have done.

I was going to post some pics and video clips right now but as luck would have it Blogger is unwilling to upload my junk...er media. I will instead now download my favorite podcast and attempt to cure my ever worsening case of writer's block.



Screw it! I'm just gona go climbing instead.