Free Four – Pink Floyd

This is the song of the day.  I can’t explain it but I love this song right now and keep listening to it over and over…

The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.

Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.

So all aboard for the American tour,
And maybe you’ll make it to the top.
And mind how you go, and I can tell you, ’cause I know
You may find it hard to get off.

You are the angel of death
And I am the dead man’s son.
And he was buried like a mole in a fox hole.
And everyone is still on the run.

And who is the master of fox hounds?
And who says the hunt has begun?
And who calls the tune in the courtroom?
And who beats the funeral drum?

The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You shuffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.

Rock Climbing

Today was family day and we had planned to go rock climbing.   Mom and Risa made egg sandwiches and crispy bacon for breakfast and then we headed out around 11:30am.  We decided to go to AZ On The Rocks which was recommended to me by a co-worker who is an experienced climber.     Once we arrived and paid, we watched a video (since this was our first time) and then we were given our harnesses and shoes.  Chris and Jacob and I all learned how to belay and we all went on the auto-belay as well.    Check out the photos (click any photo to enlarge and enable navigation):

Root Canal

Today during lunch I went to the dentist and got a root canal.  That was loads of fun.  It was 3 hours long with my mouth wide open propped by some metal brackets.  I kind of took a nap, which was cool.    Word of advice to everyone, if your tooth breaks, find a way to get it fixed.  Don’t wait 2 years like I did otherwise you run the risk of having damage to the root and needing a root canal.

Afterward, I went back to work.  It is kind of funny that I can say that I got a root canal during my lunch break anyway.

Saturday Night

Last night was fantastic.  It sarted out with dinner, drinks and darts at Fibber McGees.  I was out with the guy I have been seeing and it was a very nice time.  After I went over to Bogey’s where I had heard there would be a good band playing (Sister Cities).  When I got there, I walked up to the bar to order a beer and suddenly had several new friends.  I love when I walk into a bar and meet new people who take to me like an old friend.   It’s great.  The band was setting up, I was conversing with my new friends, women were getting body painted in the back of the bar and then a belly dancer came on stage and did a really hot show….really hot!  The band was just about ready to begin and Pink Floyd came on and I was loose enough to just start dancing and having a great time.  Then the band started and I was standing by the bar and this really hot girl came up and asked me if I would dance with her.  Of course I would.  Yay!  So we went out to the dance floor and she was a great dancer….very nice.  After that the body painted woman came out and we just stared at her.  It was all very surreal.  I got a photo:

body painted girl at Bogey's in Tempe
body painted girl at Bogey's in Tempe

Haikus With Benjamin

So, Benjamin sends me a text message a little while ago with a Haiku as follows:

Today may suck balls
But tomorrow is reborn
Each day is it’s own

So I responded with my own Haiku as follows:

We have this moment
And our perceptions of it
And then it is gone

Of course, my son, Jacob, had to add his in as well:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes do not make sense
Refrigerator

Janet In Town!

My best girlfriend came into town this weekend from Vegas for a visit.    We have been friends for 19 years and have a ton of history together that goes all the way back to when we were both 19 years old.  We spent our first pregnancies together and birth of our first child and our sons are now both 16 and they are good friends (probably lifelong friends) as well.

We had a great time Friday night at the Field House having drinks and dancing and singing and met a lot of really cool strangers who seemed to swarm to our table.  It was very fun and I was excited that she was receiving so much attention.  Saturday night we went bar-hopping in downtown Tempe and had a fun time, but I drank way too much way too fast.  It was very uncharacteristic of me and there was a lot of taquila that went down my throat.    We still had a great time and went to several bars, but I got quite goofy.  Looking back now, it seems that I just drifted back in time to when we were 20 years old.  Definitely the most intoxicated I have been in a very long time.

Here is a fantastic photo of her and I at the first bar at the beginning of the night.

Janet and Cheryl! Starting the Evening
Janet and Cheryl! Starting the Evening

Sledding In Flagstaff

We had a fantastic day sledding up in Flagstaff.  We have been planning to go for a few weeks and were a bit worried when the weather warmed up over the past few days, but the hill was still open and we were able to have a great time.  My mom started out uncertain as to whether or not she would do any sledding, but once we got her on the hill the first time, she went again and again and again.  There were seven of us up there today.

You Are You And I Am I

I recently was at a friend’s house and saw this on a plaque on the wall.  I thought it was perfect:

I do my thing and you do your thing.

I am not in this world to live up to your expectations

and you are not in this world to live up to mine.

You are you and I am I.

And if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful

A Cool Story From Benjamin

So, I stumbled upon a page that has 23 words used to impress and stumbled it over to Benjamin who then took it upon himself to use all of the words in the following story draft:

As I endeavor to attain apotheosis in my circumscript living space during this algid period, I am faced with a conundrum as I realize how edacious I am to expiate myself from my previous moment of whinge, whilst simultaneously seeking telos.

Then in my mind’s eye I see her…calling forth the more sybarite part of myself as I sit in meditation beholding the lascivious angel of a demon beckoning me to surrender to the moment. I sit tacid and unable to overcome her ubiquitous presence with my normal defense mechanisms. Unable to call upon my normal skepsis…unable to avoid the intoxication. Her intentions, she only partially obfuscates as she moves closer…closer. I fight…but her circean prowess leaves my attempts puerile at best. I am rendered weak…as a tyro to this presence…this elemental…this angel demon. She leaves me swayed from enlightenment at the realization of the hobson’s choice before me…this maven of ethereal seduction…entranced…bewitched…the question of occam’s razor pounding my thoughts as I realize what is about to transpire…but why me? How did she choose me, this unearthly demon of lust? I can no longer fight…I can no longer speculate. I can only succumb…so edacious I am for what is to come…this angel demon…her eyes like the universe…promising me my death. For a moment I misinterpret her voice intertwined with my thoughts as my own deranged illeism…this whole thing as my own twisted hallucination. Please let this be a hallucination…please let it be a dream…this angel demon who has come for me with her purpose…I cannot fight, I must comply. Let this pass…let this be fantasy…let this be……….real. Let it overpower my every sense…this angel demon…come to bring me such bliss as no human can withstand…such unending bliss……such agony. Such terror, such shame. I understand now…just before my final breath. Zeitgeist. Her beauty…her terror. My pain…her pleasure.