Nicole who had a birthday party in February @ Osaka on Broadway in San Antonio: Your videos are ready, but I lost your email address.

Haagen Dasz Vanilla Bean ice cream with El Pico sprinkled on top - awesome!

People are dropping like flies from cancer everywhere I look. I must still be here for a good reason. Oh yeah - the world needs freaks :P

Just rushed a crapload of plants inside. The kitchen will be crowded until the weather warms up.

Stuffed with good home cookin' from Jim's restaurant. And I got some El Pico! Enjoying a fresh cup now.

A guy just yelled, "breast!!!!!!!" at my webcam. I felt like yelling back, "leg quarter!!!!!!!"

For one who seeks outside the material, the only fit teacher is immaterial. ~Anonymous

Rain today, just in time to water all the new plant babies. Taking the the day off from yard work, just gonna feed birds today.

Delight not in excessive luxury, for double is its poverty. - Apocrypha: The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 18.32

Steve Winwood rocks. Great vibes.

I'd rather curry flavor than curry favor.

Perfectly timed rain on the way after a day of digging, cultivating and transplanting. We're getting the neighbor's unwanted gardenia :)

Tired of trying to change crap into gold. Do your own thing, I don't care. I have yard work to do. The plants are always glad to see me.

Beware of a pious fool, and of a wise sinner. - Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim

Grateful for the patient help of an understanding friend. I wish everyone had a friend like you.

Hubby working on our HTPC. Sound and picture look great. Watching TNG - Captain Picard on Risa, heheheeee.

Carlos Santana's guitar playing makes me feel really good.

Planted "crop fences" around the yard to feed the birds and prevent soil erosion. Also lots of birdie photo ops :)

All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came. - Edgar Cayce Reading 3744-5

Reply to a questioning friend: I care about you, not your self-created drama. Address causes instead of effects, and things will change.

Feel much better today. May do some light yard work, we'll see. Main job - finding and gathering all the seeds we stored for spring.

Having one of those "I don't care how ANYBODY ELSE feels, I want things MY WAY!" days. Beware.

Getting out of the house for a while. Too nice to stay in, too much thinking to do.

It is vital that people "count their blessings": to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. - Abraham Maslow

Though every word is full of kindly virtue, a man's mean back-biting will betray his empty heart. - Tirukkural 19: 185

No yard work today - saving my hands for massage night.

By shoving my face into the dirt, you've placed my foot firmly on your head. Confusing? Not if you understand universal law.

May be offline for a few days. Don't panic :)

I'm getting a Samsung Impression phone (http://htxt.it/3X66 this year. Comments & helpful info welcome.

The force of the fall is directly proportionate to the height of the pedestal you create for yourself. If you wanna be a pancake, go for it.

Perfect timing for rain, right after tearing up the yard. Yard is fresh and settled now, happy plants reaching for the sky, going "whee!"

Look for the dream that keeps returning. That is your destiny. ~From a years-old fortune cookie slip I never seem to lose. And it's true.

Pulled weeds all morning. Hands, back and hip are all wrecked, but good to get all that work out of the way while I'm able. Yard looks good.

Morning glories planted, everything watered. Next project: Rain gutter.

Next garden job: dig up a bed and plant morning glory vines by a tree so they can climb up and look purty.

Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears. Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart. - Tirukkural 38: 376-377

Watching the documentary for Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie". The movie is next. Popcorn, anyone?

Finally fixing stuff around here. The screen door doesn't stick now, and I'm working on a new gutter system for the house.

Please, someone send me an emergency case of El Pico! I'm having serious coffee cravings. Tea just doesn't do it.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites. - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Powering down so hubby can make some repairs.

The artist is one to whom all experience is revelation. - Lewisohn, 'Creative Life'

Warm enough for open doors and windows, but still cool enough to be comforted by a cup of hot tea.

Great song: "Mitwa", from the film "Lagaan", sung by Amir Khan & Gracie Singh. The movie's pretty good, too.

Remembering a dear friend who's no longer in the body, and understanding that "intangible" is a relative term.

Now there is cure in coolness and calm, but in heat and passion there can be no cure. - Milindapanha

From a Facebook friend: "Don't get eaten by a Killer Whale. Though I suspect it won't be interested. You taste of purple and are too bony."

On a nature show just now: "Luckily, some elephants have shown up." Good to know there are elephants around when you need them.

Going to Seaworld today with my sister and her family.

Some boldly go where none have gone before. Some boldly stay when no one else can, or will.

My frapping hip hurts like crazy. Can't sit, lie, stand or walk without pain. I must have kicked someone hard in a past life ...

I told my doctor that playing naked Twister is a good way to get a guy interested in yoga.

Off to another regularly-scheduled doc appointment. My biggest decision is which book to take with me for the waiting room.

Leslie: Paul! Why did I randomly think of you just now? Haven't been here in freaking forever. Hi to everyone! Love, Leslie

Voyager Marathon over - Now on to TNG. Way to kick Borg behind, Admiral Janeway!

Nicole who had her birthday party @ Osaka Grill in San Antonio: Please contact me. Your videos are ready, but I lost your email address.

Uploaded flea market baby shower vids to Youtube, currently uploading to Flickr.

In about an hour, I get to attend a baby shower held at a flea market. My dad would have loved this :)

He who promotes his own honor at the expense of his neighbor's has no portion in the world to come. -Judah b. Hanina, Genesis Rabbah

Curling (sport): sliding big rocks over the ice, hitting other rocks with your rock, and sweeping up ice crumbs really, really fast.

Watching Olympic curling, cheering for the ice swiffer guys.

Fulfillment of desire is an illusion; desire leads to more desire, not satisfaction. - Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

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Reading a lot lately, many newly-aquired books stacked up to catch up on. Sorry if I'm not too chatty right now.

Be kinder than necessary as everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. -Anonymous

Feeling all warm and fuzzy over Drew and the Saints making it happen. This should yield positive fallout for a good long time.

Eagerly awaiting the Saints' victory in the Superbowl today.

"Impossible" is a word humans use far too often. - Seven of Nine on Star Trek Voyager

If I try to be like him, who will be like me? - Yiddish proverb

City of San Antonio: Via bus drivers are still speeding through our neighborhoods. We need those speed bumps NOW.

Went from a Canon Powershot A640 to Canon Powershot S90. So far, so good.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. - Rosa Parks

Self-control will place a man among the Gods, While lack of it will lead him into deepest darkness. - Tirukkural 13:121

No tongue speaks as much ill of us as our own. - Sholom Aleichem, "Olom Habo"

A petty officer often thinks of the rules; a seasoned general doesn't talk of soldiering. - Zen proverb

More cloudwatching with hubby: "That one looks like a squid fighting Godzilla, with a dragon overhead."

Recent fortune cookie: "You will soon achieve perfection." Gee ... good to know. One question, though - how do I tell when I get there?

So predictable, it's funny and sad at the same time. Either you don't see the pattern, or you're doing it on purpose.

He is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen. -Bhagavad Gita 12:17

Hurt my foot trying to roll an off-balance, 96-gallon recycling bin to the curb over wet grass and mud before the truck reached our house.

What is the benefit of exerting mental effort the wrong way? - Guon

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. - Milarepa,"Drinking the Mountain Stream"

Reading "The Ancient City" by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges. Now I understand why our modern cities are turning to crap.

Cloud-watching with hubby. Me: "What does that one look like?" / Him: "A fish with a drill, chasing another fish."

Tired of joining mailing lists/groups for my interests, and having to watch people use them as stupidity distributors.

Me: "If you were a superhero, what would your battle cry be?" / Hubby: "Up yours, Evil!"

A king without fear for his soul is a false king. -Anonymous

Entertained the neighbors by gimping around doing yard work (darn that hip), but it's done. Now all we need is rain.

I eat mostly healthy food - but sometimes only a Whataburger combo will do. Shame on me *nom nom nom*

66F, front door open in spite of the neighbor's smelly cloud of perfumey dryer sheet funk. I want fresh air, dang it!

Glad I did all that yard work yesterday while the weather was nice. It's 35F in the yard now, and supposed to rain tomorrow.

The essential truth of suffering is that neither individual nor social problems are due chiefly to external conditions. - B. Alan Wallace

Pics from the Botanical gardens up on Flickr now.

Anonymous_User5677722: I'm in Va. in a printing plant monitoring a printing press.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. - The Dalai Lama

A young friend's facebook status: "mom woops sorry i didnt meen to start a war with u i thought it could be a war against somone else"

Visited the Botanical Gardens today, took many pics which turned out NOT to be blurry when I thought they would. Will post to Flickr soon.

Reading "Cratylus", finally understanding my lifelong fascination with Greek word roots.

"The Twelve Chairs" - proof that Mel Brooks is a master of more than just comedy.

Blazing Saddles begins our Mel Brooks marathon night.