A few tips for observing the Leonids Meteor Showers tonight - you ARE going to be outside tonight after midnight, right? RIGHT? Right.
posted:7:40 PM | link |

Phone line's been out for two days - finally fixed. Downloading lots of email and catching up on things. Nice to be back 'online'. More later. :-)
posted:3:15 PM | link |

I've figured out the difference between tv shows (and movies) that I like and those that I don't. The former are based on discovery of one kind or another, the latter are based on struggle in one form or another. Those that I like: Star Trek TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, all about discovery. Star Trek Deep Space Nine - didn't like it at all - based on struggle. As a kid I loved the original Star Trek, and even Gilligan's Island - call me loopy - but it was also based on discovery - they had to create EVERYTHING they did - inventions, explorations, - they weren't struggling to survive (it was a tropical island full of coconuts - LOL) at all. The X-Files (when it was good) was about discovery too. Most 'family comedies' now are about struggle and it's actually painful to watch them, even if they're trying to be funny. Even shows and movies about SELF discovery are acceptable. (I think ye olde writers might have called it 'character development.) That's what, in my mind, separates the 'good' Simpsons episodes from the lame ones.

That's my rant for the moment - more later as I damn well please or don't please - LOL!
posted:12:27 PM | link |

About the plane crash in Queens.... symbolically speaking... My first sense of this was that it was created (in general) as a means of releasing a lot of the tension caused by the fears from 9/11, all the FBI 'be alert' warnings, the anthrax issue, etc. It was a vibe SIMILAR to the crashes of 911, but still different. (My 'hope/desire' is that it was 'just' mechanical failure.) Then I read this paragraph in an online community board:

"It's so hard to communicate to people what it's like to live here: my mailman wears rubber gloves, random bomb threats, friends who had to take Cipro having the (mis)fortune to work at NBC and the New York Times, and the loss of friends in the Trade Center itself. As I spoke to my mother last night, I said, sadly, I almost wished something would happen already so I could relax just for a little while."

Mind you, I'm talking about this from a 'large view, reality creation' perspective, not an individual perspective. What's also interesting is that last night I was a little tense and 'off'. Years ago, John and I used to joke about that being the "Kristen effect" - when you felt something was 'coming in' but that it hadn't happened yet. I don't remember much of how I was feeling the day before 9/11 (that would be 9/10), but I remember not getting much sleep around then, even before it happened. I've got to start paying more attention to that feeling, maybe even starting to tune in on this stuff ahead of time, if I want to. Hmmm.

My thoughts go out to all those who are experiencing this event more directly in their lives.
posted:9:24 AM | link |

A little something for the eyes - a 'mystery photo' - probably not TOO Much of a mystery, but I thought it came out interesting nonetheless.

The dead boar is still out there in the field. We're starting to think that the wild animals just aren't interested in it - only the flies (eeww!). Everytime we go out to run the well pump we're putting a few rocks on it though to make a cairn - mostly just so eventually we can take our dogs out there again and let them run around. (John reminded me the other day of the "Dogs in Elk" story, which I won't go into here, but suffice it to say we don't need our dogs getting a whiff of the boar!)
posted:12:14 PM | link |