OTHER SAGE STUFF

Okay, I don’t have sleep apnea… or at least not enuf to require one of those p.i.a. air thingies that you have to wear at night. Hallelujah!

I’m still into first Thursday and in 2011 invite you to come by studioD for beer:30. That’s 4:30 beers on the 1^st Thursday of each month. I also continue to enjoy various networking events… but a little more sporadically these days. I still dig the derby, even though megmyday quit and the DLF came in last place in 2010. In fact SDNW just became a sponsor! @ the bruise level. Check it. ratcityrollergirls.com/sponsors/ Okay, Socket Wenches are my new favorites & they even sport orange uniforms.

MEN. Group.
Men’s group
There are a lot of things I don’t know and never learned about being a man in these times. Okay, on this planet. I joined a men’s group after an unsuccessful attempt to form one of my own. I began learning ‘the art of being a man’ in a formal group lead by a fine teacher. & I also learned that I don’t enjoy paying (cash. literally) to play… so I bring some new energy and recent knowledge in joining another (free) group of ‘junto’ brothers – men that have been meeting for six or seven years. “Checking in” with other men who have wives and complex lives has helped me to become a better man… which I continue to strive for and I give thanks for having this opportunity and these individuals in my life.

Men. I greatly appreciate the support and understanding they bring to my life.

SOME OF MY FAVORITE DAYS: 2010
teaching Galaxy to ride a bike. Picture me with 16#’s of Cosmo strapped to my chest jogging along washington boulevard as she reaches lift off. What a workout. Really felt like super dad that day… and she’s almost got it.

Another one was my pop day with Galaxy @ Disneyland. Ms.A was out of commission- literally – and we went about having a lovely random day doing just exactly what presented itself in our path. Low-key D. who’d a thunk it. our Disney trip was made possible by having a good tax man! Try it. & also by the generosity of grannyL & grampaJ.

And there was a series of work parties turning the greenhouse space @ G’s preschool into an art room. A lot of good dad-connection time & making a permanent improvement to the operation of kscp. & getting turned on to Vietnamese sandwiches. Cheap tasteeness. Thanks Joseph.

And THE SAULK. I took a day trip – carving a time portal in the Disneyland adventure - to see the masterpiece by louis kahn. Something I have wanted to do since college. One word. Humbled. Here are a few of the almost five hundred photos I took that day.

My un-favorite day was when C/ simultaneous with learning how to walk/ locked my new Droid… to the tune of requiring a complete hard reset/ I tried for two weeks but found no solutions from, google, motorola, verizon or my favorite tech geeks. Ouch, that one stung.

Actually there were a lot of great days along the way.

I had a really superb birthday party. It was a sweet tribute to 50 trips around the sun. Lots of love & friends and kind words & I didn’t even get roasted! life is good. Thank you to all who helped out, brought food, entertained, or just showed up. I am striving to stay positive & ask for what I want. I do believe that thoughts become things and that I need to remember to choose the good ones. I choose love and light, abundance and wealth.

HOUSE OF CARDS “beware the nargles"
Let’s face it… we’re in a depression. Should I really say this out loud? Those “what do you think is going to happen” conversations continue to happen and my general response is that I’m not sure we’re not headed for a total collapse. “it” really seems like a house of cards to me… the whole mortgage finance game and struggle for the legal tender…. I use the double negative intentionally because I certainly hope for the positive… but from a lot of angles it seems like we’ve got to fall a lot farther before we get back to some sort of reality and sense of appropriate consumption… [he said from his laptop in a warm bed].

SPACESHIP EARTH
okay What a mindnumbingly amazing thing is this planet and all that transpires upon it.

PARTING QUOTE
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind”
Dorothea Lange [posted @ an art show in Proletariat Pizza]