Chapters

What I think about while riding my motorcycle

I suppose it isn’t that different for most people. I’ve heard that our brains enter some sort of quasi-hypnotized states when driving (or walking!) any long distance. The difference on a motorcycle is that there is not a regular intentional stimulus (radio) to bring you back into normally conscious driving.

I like spending enforced time away from reality. My mind wanders.

Today. I made up a game that kept me occupied on the way back from Sonya’s (Springfield) to work (Paxton) which is about a 2 hour ride.

The town of Argenta inspired this game. I was thinking to myself: Where on earth did this name come from? I surmised that long ago some pilgrims of the Oregon Trail ilk (teamname = BingoSlavo) decided that they should name their new home a combination of two of their farvorite things: Argentina and the color Magenta. Hence Ar + Genta = Argenta. My game is to find odd names of towns and construct a new name from the leftover pieces of the two other words used to make the original. In this example, the new name would be… Margentina. Which made me laugh spittily all over the inside of my helmet.

Another good one was Banana + Urbanite = Urbana and therefore Bananite.

Put one leg over my shoulder…

Alright!

Back in Illy-noir after a day involving 7 hours in a plane, no breakfast, a hairy, sweaty human bowling ball that had arms sticking fully 1/3 into my seat-air-space, delayed flight, and semi-lost in the parking lot car, 4 hours in that car (thank you Sonya!) and the best reunion with my fiancee. I love her.

OK. On Tuesday, at Sonya’s request, I spent time looking for other apartments to live. I ended up signing one at:

3933 1/2 7th Ave,

San Diego, 92103
It’s great! Sonya’ll be able to walk to work some of the time, and I’ll be able to walk to the best grocery store ever: Whole Foods.

Also on Tuesday, I got another interview! One of the carrier pigeon resumes must have finally gotten to them. They were very interested… which means that if they offer me a job, I officially have a choice.

Which brings me to: OH GOD! I’m going to have to start FIGURING OUT WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH LIFE! GOD! the HUMANITY!!!

Do I want to work with manufacturing? Own a business? Be a surf/ski/kayak bum? What?

What it’s like on the West Side

Sonya and I are moving to San Diego soon. I need a job. We need an apartment.

I flew out to S.D. on sunday morning. Fox Car rental = super DUPER budget rental. It’s 16$/day for a cheapo car. Fortunately they didn’t have any economy cars. Unfortunately I was upgraded to a Chrysler PT Cruiser. Interior styling = awkward but neat cockpit. The windshield is too low, it’s hard to see far enough ahead when driving uphill. (There are HILLS in San Diego!) Also- the cruiser is the mom-van of the 2000’s. It’s got the acceleration of a large-assed quadraplegic. With a dead scooter battery. The car I have is only 19000 miles old, and it barely makes it up some of the hills here.

It took me 2 hours after landing to find the apartment that Sonya and I will probably rent.

The one interview that I was granted offered me the job on the spot.

And now? I just finished jogging up the coast, swimming and am now watching Troy.

So far? The west side has treated me well.

Movie- Munich

Wunderkind Herr Spielberg directed this movie last year? I guess?

The movie is about an agent of Mussad fighting for Israeli revenge after the 1972 hostage-taking and subsequent deaths by Palestinian agents of Israeli atheletes.

Though I am suspicious of any movie that comes from hollywood and assumes depth in emotion.

I liked the telling of the story- it was mature in its gravitas. The killing of human beings and the morality-or lack of it- was the true story here. The main character leads a team of operatives that are directed to hunt down and kill those responsible for the attack. After the initial excitement of justice wears off, the 5 of them branch into different views on the correctness of what they are doing. At the depth of Avner’s doubts he gets hit with the Motherland conscience; the second great theme of the movie is that the answer to the conflicts is the idea of “home”. When he quits his mission, he quits for a different home than his controller wants him to fight for- family.

I liked it. Thoughtful thriller.

Rating: Of 11 possible bombs to go off without a hitch? 1.

Added Page

I added an extra Page (that’s capital P!) to my “blog” for Sonya’s and my story.

I feel a little rediculous using “blog” software. I hate to think of myself as a blogger. With blog-tendancies, who considers themselves some sort of cynical, snide cub-reporter serving the dish. Also it’s very blatently saying “HEY EVERYONE!”, “I think I’m extremely interesting and therefore…. LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!”

Wrong.

I liked my old system because it more aptly encouraged changes of format. The ease of use of my new, current set up seems so tightly linear that I hope it doesn’t stifle my boundless, unbridled creativity. Especially in cliche usage.

I hope to find a good way to integrate my old content and seemingly separate site.

Dangity Dang Dang

Alright.

I read something today about geeks being essential to the survival of business today. The main point was that geeks will take the time to learn something for the sake of learning it.

They specifically mentioned owning your own website as one of the geek things.

Unfortunately, my patience for fooling with Yahoo!’s sitebuilder software grew thin enough to discourage posting. I just switched to “Wordpress” software specifically for blogs. Hopefull this will encourage more posting.

Until I can figure out how to import the almost 2 years, suffer in silence.