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04/19/2003 Archived Entry: "These are the days of our flies"

Ok, the list is considerably down...not perfect, but better. Here's what I am thinking I will spend my time on:

1. kiting - I went and bought myself a kite....a nice one. A Beetle 2100, to be exact. It's amazing how much more you can enjoy kites with a decent one in your hands. Two lines is much, much better than one. A kite with this kind of control is like ballet in some ways. Yesterday and today I flew it, learning how to guide it to make sounds (like a mechanized dune worm...that's the best explanation I can give) and perform various stunts (pulling it out of stalls, running figure-8s, landing and taking off, swinging low along the ground). Definitely something I want to keep doing. Jen bought a kite today too...a nice big phoenix. This also gives me a great reason to get into the park for an hour or two.
   
2. This blog - for purely selfish reasons I will continue to write here. I enjoy it, but more so it helps me think. It clears my head of the daily crap that accumulates so that I canmove on to more important things.
   
3. Walking - along with everything else, I am wanting badly to be in better shape. In my case it's a return to better shape.
   
4. Zen - see #3, except mental instead of physical.
   
5. Esperanto - I'm going to finish my lessons, and see how things go from there. It's an interesting exercise anyhow.
   
6. Archery/fiction writing/fishing/guitar - when time permits. Guitar was an especially difficult choice...it's one of those things that takes a long time to get good at, and when you take a break from it you lose so much. People say playing the guitar is addictive, it's a musical monkey on your back.
   

We went to Costco in Richmond today. Mistake #1 was to go to Costco on a weekend. Mistake #2 was to go to the Richmond one where the crowds are always much worse than anywhere else and no one can drive a car, nevermind a shopping cart. Mistake #3 was shopping at Costco on the Saturday sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It was a frigging madhouse.

I saw, for the first time in my obviously culturally naive life, a jar of "gefilte fish". The dictionary definition is 'balls or cakes of seasoned minced fish usually simmered in a fish stock or baked in a tomato sauce'. In Costco it looked pickled and it looked...absolutely revolting.

We watched Road to Perdition tonight. Excellent movie. Give it a try, perhaps.

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