Random notes

I read on John's blog last evening (it is now early in the a.m.) about an electric sports car that does 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds.

A few moments later, I checked an email from a friend about a Hawaiian therapy technique called Ho'oponopono. The email had been forwarded many times, and had some of the earmarks of an urban myth. Generally, when I get an email of that sort, I Google the subject matter to see if there's any more info on it.

In this case, though, the original text is genuine, and I found it here.

So, I clicked on that blog's home page, and found this link.

Synchronicity.

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I have been more-or-less off my small social circle all month. I have spent more time in the confines of my own home, drawing, reading, doing laundry and other chores, getting reacquainted with the creatures with whom I share my home.

(Something we take for granted, and yet it continues to amaze me -- that a dog or a cat would rather spend more time hanging out in the company of a different species than with other dogs or cats. Cats vary on this, of course, but my grouchiest, touchiest cat is also the one that sticks closest to me.)

Before I started frequenting the Red Cup a year or so ago, I spent about 29 out of 30 evenings alone, either at home or maybe at a movie. Then I swung to the point where I was out 5 out of 7 nights a week (although still leading a fairly docile life; sitting on a patio drinking iced tea is still a little more low-key than a weekly parasailing group or tae kwan do lessons).

The change has been remarkable, but also somewhat destabilizing. There is nothing inherently wrong with either lifestyle, but shifting from one to the other is bound to create some stress, and I think I overdid it a little. So now I'm taking a little of what my therapist used to call 'turtle time' to let the slower-adapting parts of me catch up with the rest.

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These new monitors are wonderful. When I was installing them, I briefly had one new one and one old one on, and I could see first hand how dim and fuzzy the old one was. Fifteen years ago, the NEC Multi-sync was the gold standard of CRTs, and priced accordingly. But now they're pretty run of the mill, in my experience, even for CRTs.

If you're still a CRT user, I'm a huge fan of Viewsonics. Built to last. Of the half-dozen CRTs I've been through over the past several years, the only two still functioning at all are two Viewsonics. One is about eight years old now, and it's a pretty low-res monitor, but it still works.

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