One of my favourite quotes is from Frank Herbert’s Dune:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Off to help a friend pack… hate to see them move but they have found a great opportunity. # Bike ride and horse ride yesterday. Hopefully horse ride on the youngster today, if it isn't too wet after a night of thunderstorms. # RT @tweetmeme Three Science Fiction Writing Exercises http://bit.ly/9hBpAe # Empire Strikes Back…
Isis moved better today. She stretched out when I brought her into the ring in-hand for some free lunging. Slight limp, but not much. At one piont, she was feeling great — tossed her head, whirled around, snorted, pranced… What a relief! Maybe this brief retreat into lameness has past. Related Images:
When I drive to work, I normally charge my cell phone using the cigarette lighter port. I was going to swap the charger for the Ming with the Verizon phone (especially when I realized the Verizon phone’s battery is low). The Ming’s charger wouldn’t come out. I had to wait until I was parked at…
My front yard looks like a playground for a giant prairie dog. For the past two days the plumbers have been digging up the sewer lines to replace them. The old line turned out to be PVC, but a very thin type that can’t stand up to the requirements of a sewer line buried up…
Some interesting definitions from The Jargon Lexicon: bletcherous: /blech’@�r@s/, adj. Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. “This keyboard is bletcherous!†(Perhaps the keys don’t work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing, cretinous, bagbiting, bogus, and random. The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing…
Here it is after 2:30 AM and the toilet has backed up again. This time there was also water in the bath tub (probably from when I took a shower). Sigh. This is getting really old. Related Images: