MadGravity

Sunday 28- A nice but breezy day with temps into the low 90s.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran up and down the hill carrying 5lbs dumbbells, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

I saw the weirdest kind of moth that almost looks like a hummingbird fly around my desert willow collecting nectar with the bees. Found out it was a White-lined Sphinx

My car didn’t start up yesterday when I was going to potluck; I had left a door ajar and the battery went dead. I left it that way and went to potluck on my scooter. Today I tried to start it with a jump from another battery, but all it did was make a clicking noise. So I hooked it up to a 120 watt solar panel to charge all day and will wait until tomorrow to put it back in the car and see if she’ll start.

I called family and friends throughout the day.

I waited till night to drive the scooter down to my mailbox on Border to collect my mail.

I went outside with my binoculars to stargaze and also to see Saturn at its closest to Earth. Saturn is rising in the east as Jupiter is setting in the west. The seeing wasn’t very good though...

Monday 29- windy and hotter!

I did my stretches and yoga. I kinda didn’t feel much like doing anything today, seeing how I only had about three and a half hours sleep last night. I think it might of been the news I recently heard of a couple of my friend’s health that has me a bit worried.

I let the car battery charge a bit more and finally took it out to the car around noon. I set the battery in the battery holder and connected the cables, turned the key and she fired right up, instant relief!

I installed a small 5 watt solar panel on the roof and connected it to electric leads to the inside fan I have to circulate air in my house; very nice when it’s hot.

In the evening I drove my scooter to my other mailbox on Lear to collect my mail.

Tuesday 30- such a beautiful spring day! A little breezy but very pleasant.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

I  listened to lecture 18 of Geography 130: guest speaker Paul Johnston. (from this point on the lecture numbers on iTunes skip here and there and I lost track of which was which)

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack, listening to lecture 19 of Geography 130: guest speaker Sandy Brown talking about Fair Trade and bananas.

I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book (only 3 more lessons to go), and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: a face.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.

I listened to lecture 20 of Geography 130: guest speaker Elizabeth Havish on tuna.

I studied “Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies”: Genomics.

I practiced my guitar.

I watched season 5 episode 22 of “Castel: Still”; very touching.

Goodbye to April, you’ve been a worrisome and eventful month.

Welcome to the month of May- clear skies with a nice breeze.

I did my stretches. Andrew is dropping off a car to a friend up here and I volunteered to drive him down to Cabazon where he’d pick up a bus to Los Angeles. We left around 1:30pm and arrived at the casino there to wait for his bus that was due to arrive at 3:40pm. We decided to have lunch at their buffet while we waited. I was overwhelmed by what I saw when I first walked in; rows upon rows of older people than I, in poor health, heavily smoking and pulling levers on slot machines; reminded me of some kinda purgatory... I will not be going back there! The buffet was good though.

Around 3:15 we went out to the bus stop to await his bus that never came. After waiting an hour and making phone calls to the bus company, we found out that the bus driver went to the wrong bus stop that was moved to where we waited there outside the casino.

Andrew said he was going to hitchhike. Being that he is one of my best friends, I decided that enough was enough and drove him home myself. We did have a great time chatting it up on the way to his home. There was a big fire not far away from Cabazon, with billowing smoke high into the sky and blowing thick smoke across the freeway.

We arrived at his house around 7pm and I said hello to his dogs. One of his dogs named Guinness remembered me from the desert a long time ago and welcomed me with doggie licks all over. Andrew showed me around his place and the wonderful view of smoggy LA.

I had a nice ride all by myself on the way back home. It was a kind of meditative experience with my mind drifting from place to place, across space and time, wandering, as I drove Interstate 10 all the way home.

I drove into my driveway and parked; it was 9:30pm.

Thursday 02- hazy and hot.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran up and down the hill carrying 5lbs dumbbells, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

I guess I am burned out from the drive yesterday and just mellowed out and messed around on FaceBook.

Friday 03- hazy with temps into the low 90s.

I did my stretches.

I cleaned around the house and did some watering outside.

I did my studies; a lesson in Beginning Latin book (only 3 more lessons to go), and another in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: a furry dog.

I read chapters 22 and 23 of “Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies” finally completing the whole book, yay for me!

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run.

I watched episode 23 of “Elementary: A Landmark Story”; Moriarty’s henchmen are afoot.  

Saturday 04- windy with smoke from some forest fire in the air... temps into the high 80s.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, ran a mile and a half with 1.5lbs around each wrists, core trainer, and punched the heavybag for five minutes.

I updated the Copper Mountain Mesa Website and sent out the Newsletter.

I worked around the house listening to lecture 21 of Geography 130: guest speaker Aaron Barbose (or something like that) talking about white bread.

I did my stretches, lifted 10lb dumbbells and went for my evening walk with my backpack, listening to lecture 22 of Geography 130: a review of recent lectures.

I did the last two lessons in Beginning Latin book and now I am all done, yay again for me!

I did my lesson in “1100 words you need to know workbook”, and I drew something: bees and flowers.

I did my stretches, lifted 20lb dumbbells, and went for a night run. It was really windy and there was clouds out covering most of the sky and it is unlikely I’ll see any of the eta Aquarid Meteor Shower tonight.

***** Stuff I Wrote this Week******

I was asked to write about a missing hedgehog:

“Henry Hedgehog is Mysteriously Missing!” read the headlines of the Hedgehog Daily Chronicle. Doris Gimbileworth dabbed at a tear from her eye with a white cotton napkin and put the newspaper down next to the cup halfway full of cold Earl Gray tea sitting neglected on her cherry wood coffee table. Henry was all around her in the handiwork he did; the coffee table he built, along with the chairs and other little niknaks he worked on and around Doris’s holly stem and daisy

flower thatched roof home. Doris’s house is nestled in the magical forest of Lillybrook, where all sorts of wonderful things can happen and usually do; even industrious Hedgehogs with tiny tools!

I was asked if a video of Giraffes high diving into a swimming pool was real:

Sure it is! I watched them train these very same giraffe to springboard dive when I was traveling through Zimbabwe looking for lost treasures left behind by the Spanish during the inquisition of 1481 or thereabouts.

Each giraffe was given a secret name only known to its trainer. The trainer only train one giraffe at a time. It was found that giraffes like jelly beans and used them as treats to entice the mighty beasts to make jumps into small ponds at first. Then they graduated into higher heights and larger bodies of water.

This is all I can tell you because I swore an oath on the sword of Kabambula not to divulge the mystic powers of the Omeron...

Maybe so, but they are using a new medium to get their information and to read books. Just like emails have caused problems with postal services or automobiles replaced horse drawn buggies, people have found a new and convenient way to communicate and they carry around the wealth of knowledge of a library in the palm of their hands...simply amazing!

I am not afraid of dreamers, but of those who do not dream. These manifestations of demonic evil lurking in the shadows, waiting... patiently watching over us as we sleep, to fetch away our dreams before we can awake! They have stolen my dreams many times...

We drift between spaces of time ever changing, going off on whims of our own. Drifting here and there, like a child’s imagination caught in fascination on something the eyes can’t see. Peering out beyond a window that holds a bright and sunny spring day...

Honesty is but a broken pane on a window's view of one’s self-deception...

Life is too short, dang it grows shorter every day when you get my age, to worry about most things in life and the world I cannot change. I can make amends for what I may have done wrong, but I can't pretend to mend any wrongdoings by others. I can pass along what knowledge I have gleaned of a life I believed worth living to those who would listen... Live in the Moment, live for the Moment. and live honestly!

Interesting.... I can find most any information I need on the internet. I can communicate and make friends with almost anyone in the world, even those who speak a different language than I using Google Translate. We are on the precipice of a new world social community; yes we need to expand this access to everyone so they may have access to the same knowledge and participate in this new era of global community and friendship that we do.

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