Hive Leptosouls Give Virgins Instant Sex...
...and busy times make for sparse blogging, even if there's more to blog about in busy times.
What's up? I am super-busy at work, I just went through a weeklong feeding frenzy -- last weekend was all about the quest for pizza, and then there was comfort food midweek, and Brew Works and Blue Sky and yadda yadda et cetera through this weekend -- and some friends are dealing with the loss of parents (hence the comfort food), and in between I just don't seem to have time to really sit still and think, and when I do, I have other things to think about than blogging. (There's also this: though I do tend to chronicle my life here, I had a few posts that were getting too diary-like, lists of events, food I ate and so on, that I abandoned and deleted. That wasn't and isn't the direction I want to go with this, even if that's where it seems to trend most of the time.)
The weight: I didn't check it for the past few days, but I'll get back into it soon. It's probably not good, but not radically bad either; it had been hovering around 180 for the past week, and I'd guess that's where it is now. (I have to say though, that except for the past few days, I have been keeping track: I found a few sports/fitness/coaching sites that let me record my workouts, weight, etc, which I've been playing with, and these posts here were originally a just a substitute for that kind of thing. I'll probably keep it up here for the sake of completeness, or OCD or whatever...)
Reading: Just finished Solaris, which was good but not nearly as earth-shattering as the hype. I'm just at the beginning of The Cyberiad, which already seems better.
Viewing: We watched Memento this weekend, which I hadn't seen since it was on the big screen. Still good, still loved it (Anne's verdict: good, but kind of creepy), and I think I took home a little more of what actually happened.
Memento Mori: I saw on MTBr that the 10th anniversary of Dalerider's passing was the other day. He was sort of the Brian of that crowd, in the sense of being the friend and benefactor to a whole community, and I met him once when the real Brian, offended by a bad MTBr review of the Jim Thorpe trails, organized a weekend gathering -- Brian threw down the gauntlet in the form of an invite, "to see the real trails," and Chris aka Dalerider1 did the organizing. It was a real blast, and he was a cool and honest person, one of many who were there that weekend. In some ways it seemed like "holy cow it's been ten years already?" but in other ways that gathering -- maybe the summer of 1999? -- seems like it was on another world.
Tonight is the gym, then I'm skipping Tacos & Brews night. Tomorrow is a wake.
The Reference: "Hive leptosouls give virgins instant sex. Leptosoul experiences can be tiring and trying." It's a quote from The Godwhale (which I read in maybe 7th grade, and in some ways it's the only book I ever read), a mnemonic for a sequence of amino acids. It's funny what stays with you...
2 comments:
Take care of yourself.
Extra work takes a toll on your energy, so when things get normal, your eating will too.
Sorry about the passing of friends' parents.
It's a sad time. Like the end of something bigger than just the end of the person.
I'll have to read the Godwhale. I didn't realize how challenged you were in JHS.
I guess I missed a lot of things.
I don't recall reading of Dalerider but your memory of him is very positive. The effect of a person's persa stays within your memory a long time. I guess that's a form of immortality if it can be recorded for posterity.
We just keep moving forward- life feels better that way.
Well I wouldn't call The Godwhale a challenging book, exactly!
I didn't really know Chris, just met and hung out with him that one weekend, though I knew him as an active bike forum member. His death was a big deal in that corner of the internet (ie, among his extended network of friends), which at the time was a lot smaller space.
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