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In the spirit of _earthshine_s obsessive recording of workout details, here’s my observation for the day: Weight this morning, post breakfast and all normal morning activities: 172.3 pounds Hours of judo practice, including warm up: 1.5 Water consumed during and immediately after said workout: 4 pints = 4 pounds Weight upon coming home post Judo: . . . → Read More: Workout notes technolope, and capital_l came over last night, since we all collectively wanted to get together, but couldn’t muster the energy to make any sort of plan more complex than “we go there” or “they come here.” On a whim, I had bought a pound of high-grade tuna that day, which we crusted with salt . . . → Read More: A fine evening On a slightly shallower note, I just looked at the movie listings, and there are a bunch of movies that I want to see, in theatres, right now. These include: * Dark Knight (duh) * Wanted (even if it’s only a delivery vehicle for Angelina Jolie, I’ll accept that) * WALL-E * Kung-fu Panda * . . . → Read More: Movies I’ve really come to like Mike Sedlock’s blog on finance. I never used to notice the outright, blatent manipulations of the Fed, the SEC, and so on. He really lays it out. For example, yesterday the SEC restricted “shorting” on a variety of major lending banks including Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. “Shorting,” is essentially . . . → Read More: Finance Quick note to let everyone know we’re home safe, and (gah!) going to work in the morning. other than that, take a listen to technolope and shuffle your money around. Be smart! Right now is the time when real people are gonna start to lose their life savings. Oh, and if you hear about . . . → Read More: Home safe Yesterday’s lecture was, mostly, on emptiness. This is the hard core, serious, “once you get this you’re probably approaching omniscience” material. I did not get it. I thought that I got it a couple of times, but then I figured out that my brain was just desperately lowering its standards for comprehension in order . . . → Read More: Emptiness I write this from the “annex” at redmeds parent’s house. Because of additional family members staying tonight, we’ve been given the pop-top camper for the evening. Camping! Yay! We even saw some local wildlife on the way in – sadly, said local wildlife was a LARGE skunk. Booo! No skunks are needed here. At the . . . → Read More: Day 4 About the first half hour of this morning’s session was dedicated to answering my mom’s question. I can’t do it justice here, but I hope to start synthesizing some of this stuff in the near future. I’m up to 50+ pages of notes. Suffice it to say, he broke it down for us. One question . . . → Read More: Day three I want to share some still-fresh impressions from the teachings that I’ve been attending. . . . → Read More: Impressions |
