TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his book *Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships,* psychotherapist John Welwood writes, “Psychological work focuses more on what has gone wrong: how we have been wounded in our relations with others and how to go about addressing that. Spiritual work focuses more on what is intrinsically right: how we have infinite resources at the core of our nature that we can cultivate in order to live more expansively. If psychological work thins the clouds, spiritual work invokes the sun.” In my opinion, Taurus, both approaches are useful, depending on the season of your life. For the foreseeable future, though, spiritual work should be your emphasis.
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Words… on paper… someone raise a glass!
This afternoon, before work, I put words on paper.
And not just any words. Fiction words. Words from a project. Steven words.
Holy crap, am I excited. I’ve been able to write some Adam stuff, but not much. I’ve been floundering since the end of NaNoWriMo.
So, raise a glass to my continued ability to put words on paper! :)
“But he does kick the Lex Luthor look like woah.”
I need to renew my paid account. I think I may just have enough in my PayPal account.
As a result, I need to get back on the eBay train. Choo choo!
I’m waiting for jetAudio to finish ripping a Black Eyed Peas CD to ogg vorbis format. Which my iPaq can now play, thanks be to Pocket Player. It feels so subversive to have all of this OSS running under such a well-known and obviously closed-source OS. Of course, Pocket Player isn’t OSS, but it seems worth the paltry registration fee to purchase the full version once the trial software expires.
That’s right, peoples, I don’t mind paying for software, as long as it’s worth the money.
My hair is already growing at a mad pace. I no longer look bald, but buzzed. Perhaps
Not only because I like it. Not only because
Somebody’s gonna need to take pics, so’s I can have me a baldy LJ icon. Heh.
Horoscope
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your web of allies is a crucial part of your pursuit of happiness. The stimulation and support you ask them for are vivid evidence that you love life and have a strong sense of what’s good for you. Every now and then, however, you need to remember that it’s important to avoid falling completely under their influence. You’ve got to resist peer pressure, and declare your independence from the crowd’s power to shape you. Now is such a time, Taurus.
Breaking the universe through spontenaity.
So, I went and got my head shaved today. It was a whim that seemed like it needed to be put to action. I think, once the initial shock wears off, most people are more surprised by me actually changing something without a whole lot of reason attached than they are with the act itself.
It has been confirmed that the 4GB SD card needs to be formatted with FAT32, and so will not work with my older iPaq. However, the 2GB cards can be formatted with FAT16, so my plan is still a go. The battery arrived the day that I was griping about it, and has been installed. It’s working wonderfully. So is the extra battery that came with the PCMCIA sleeve, which arrived the day after the battery. The wireless card is on its way. My Frankenstein project is almost complete. I haven’t been able to actually pull shit like this together in a while, so I’m getting pretty giddy. And here I was all ready for the usual “nothing will work together the way that you want it to” usual state of affairs.
Lucky me. :)
I’ve got a new piece of LARP fiction up at
I’ve got a video game proposal and DJ bio to write next, and I’ve become unblocked, thanks to
Also, I owe five people snippets of fiction from a meme a while back. I haven’t forgotten, and I think I have something to write. You may have to huddle to get the entire story, though. :)
Technology is a sultry minx that toys with me.
So, we had one of these little gadgets that was sitting around, fairly inoperable, at the bottom of a desk drawer. eBay to the rescue! I have a battery en route, as well as an upgrade sleeve that will accept PC cards. I’ve already got the 4GB SD card. The idea is to get it able to connect to an 802.11 network, as well as play an appreciable amount of MP3s. I mean, the thing has a standard headphone jack right there on the top! It’s practically begging to be turned into a flashy mp3 player, on top of being a PDA and wireless… aw, hell. A palmtop. There, I said it.
Of course, this can’t go easily. I’ve been waiting on the battery forever, and had auctions (like the SD card) that I won after the battery show up before it. If I unplug the A/C adapter, *poof* goes all my data. So, I’ve been in a bit of a holding pattern. At least, when the SD card arrived, I could test it, right? Well, it appears that it doesn’t want to format the card. And while Googling seems to solve most Apple and Linux related questions, not so for HP/Microsoft amalgamations.
The only information I’ve been able to find is outdated. Compatibility listings only go up to 1GB, but there are spotty reports of getting 2GB cards to work. HP’s support won’t even attempt to answer the question because it’s so far out of warrantee. That’s odd to me, because their live support was always great at handling questions about my old Compaq laptop, and it was a Pentium 1. WAY out of date. Perhaps this is a difference between their live support and their email support, and I should try the live support again.
In any case, if any of you has knowledge of such handhelds, and wouldn’t mind shedding some insight in my general direction, I would appreciate it crazy-like. If I have to downgrade to a 2GB, or there’s a software update out there that I need, lay it on me. :)
Horoscope
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Should we attribute any oracular significance to the fact that hundreds of flowers bloomed on a cherry tree in Brooklyn during the first week of winter? Is it a portentous marvel akin to, say, the births of three white buffalos on a farm in Janesville, Wisconsin? (The odds of a single white buffalo are a million to one.) I don’t know for sure, Taurus, but my meditations do suggest that the Brooklyn miracle is an apt metaphor for a scenario you’ll soon be experiencing: an early ripening of a possibility that you had assumed wouldn’t be ready or available for quite some time.
Horoscope
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” So said Dr. Frank Barron, a pioneer in the psychology of creativity. I believe that describes you pretty well right now, Taurus–even if you don’t usually think of yourself as creative or artistic. The astrological omens suggest that you’ve got more lust for life than any other sign of the zodiac; you’re in an intimate alignment with the throbbing hum of the Divine Wow. Please remember how important it is to be discerning about where you direct that much energy! Don’t waste it on trivial pleasures or goals that are unworthy of you. You now have the power to change things you thought you could never change in a thousand years.