ok. showered and dressed. been reading for a few hours. been watching the news. been playing with the kitties.
been making lists.

actually just one big one:

-cobra
-clean
-unemployment stuff
-resume
-monster
-giganto
-sort clothing
-get boxes
-create project plan for vacation and finding new jobbyjob
-online learning companies in portland
-education companies in portland
-get printer
-apts in portland
-go sailing, now.

From: Russacohn
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:04:04 EDT
To: NPetersII@yahoo.com
Subject: Etymology of 'clew"

We already know that the words 'clew' and 'clue' are related and that way back in mythological times that clue referred in a somewhat contorted way to "finding a way" through a maze or problem by following a string. Hence, clue/clew has connotations involving reeving a line, maybe even into a block and tackle that might be used on a ship. In fact, and to the point, the phrase "clewing up a sail", is a common command on a square rigger: i.e. "It's coming on to blow. Clew up the t'gallants". Thus, as part of a square sail's normal rigging there is a tackle from each lower corner, the clew, used as an aid to reefing and furling. Right now I'm not sure if this tackle was lead along the spar to the mast thence down to the deck, or simply dead ended at the outboard ends.
The word 'clew', in a dictionary of English nautical terminology, states it evolved from the old Norse word, 'kle", into old English in the period, AD 450 to 1150. I didn't know that Scandinavian languages were included in the Romance language group; I thought they were more related the Eastern Asian. But kle and clew aint too far apart.
You must pass this along to Nate. I'm sure he will be relieved to know that, like everything else on shipboard, logic would have it know other way.

Love, Russ

nice dinner with ma last night. we walked down into edmonds from her house to a little japanese place. good katsu don. her condo is shaping up quickly... not that i would expect anything less. the new carpet is swank. mom is a good interior designer. we had a good time chatting even though our thoughts on what i should do with my time between jobs differs slightly.

going to have lunch at amazon today with Patti, trying to get my cv in order to pass on to friend at chef.org. i be busy. 4 loads of laundry done. and rushing about to get my sorry ass apartment in order so i can happily go south tomorrow.

taurus: You'll find that delays, shortages and setbacks at work now begin to diminish. You can count on more efficiency from today onward.

from the Seattle Times


word.

i saw this on another site while trolling about. thought it interesting.
all is well. i am up early on for what feels like my first day without work. rather enjoying every minute of it. got way to drunk on saturday night @ re-bar. shitty shitty drunk that left my sunday in a daze of headache, ill gut and capable of nothing but moaning. lovely. missed dinner with ryan, sandy, kristen and avi because of hangover, bummed about that. filed for unemployment on friday... so may go down to the office today just to check out what they have available down there. so much to do.

Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!

hey hey
laid
off.

up early anyway. happily planning what i am going to do with all my time. feeling sorry for the folks that are left. i hope that they get out soon.

word on the street is that i am getting canned tomorrow.
woo hoo.

it's my pops birthday.
He would have been 63 today.
i miss him.

Check out this penguin game. It is really cool.

all weekend on the water racing. had dinner at avi and kristen's new pad on saturday, crashed at 7:30 last night exhausted. lots of fresh air to wear me out. kinda sore with bruises.

ready for another week of wonderful communication at work.

isn't she cute?
I just can't get over caitlyn. she's adorable.
i am headed to IL for t-giving, but am having wishful thoughts of going out sooner. grrrrrrrr.

life is grand. aside from the obvious tragedies of a world falling apart and slipping into some bizarre war. today i road the bus to work and was reading the headlines off the front page of the seattle times and it said "United States sends Amber Waves of Grain to Afganistan".

kind of made me sick.

so besides that and a difficult work era things are good. I am sailing all weekend on quorum in the puget sound sailing championships, which i am all kinds of excited about. it is friday night and i am off to dinner with tom and amy.

mmmm isn't she cute?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Week of October 11, 2001

If I were speaking to you in my role as a militant play activist, I might dare you to begin weaning yourself from your job. I'd tempt you to increasingly devote yourself to creating a rhythm in which leisure and fun occupy as much of your time as wage-slavery. Even more audaciously, I'd ask you to imagine in vivid detail how to make money from doing what you love. But in my role as your conscientious astrologer, I can't dangle that advice in front of you. You may not have the luxury of living in poverty for years, as I did while I followed my bliss until it paid off. So instead, Taurus, please accept the following counsel: Use all your ingenuity to make your job a bouncier, zippier, fizzier experience.

from mr. brezney

Caitlyn Elyse made her daring
debut at 9:04 EST. The fashionably late new-born was a stunner at 21 inches
and 7pounds 5 ounces. Her personal sense of flair was further accentuated
by her 14 inch CRANIUM!

hey!
I'm an uncle.
How fucking cool is that?

sister in law going into labour.

it's your birtday! it's your birthday!

going camping tonight.
i am i no way prepared. Linda isn't able to come up because of a nasty cold, so it will just be joe, tara, max, brooke and i... the fifth wheel. not really... but you know. It sounds like we are heading to Corral Pass in the NE sector of Mt. Rainer Nat. Park... i am so excited to get out there.

dinner last night with martha and holly. very nice. Martha made a fancy dinner of chicken breasts cooked in sherry with a green peppercorn sauce. it was delicious. i was home and in bed by 8 o'clock though. changing season, glass of wine...and i am out of commission.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Week of October 4, 2001

It's Soul Retrieval Week, Taurus. You will attract the help of divine and human allies alike whenever you take measures to reclaim missing pieces of your soul. Are there relatives, either dead or alive, who stole some of your precious essence? Go into deep meditation and negotiate with them for its return. Did you lose a portion of your innocence during a traumatic upheaval a while back? Find it and restore it. Have the betrayals of people you once trusted caused your beauty to dim? Fill your warrior heart with outrageous, courageous love and fight for the restitution of your lost gifts. Your hour of psychic unification is at hand.

up early with a sense of impending doom.

heh heh. doom is good. specially when winter is coming on strong. death leaves big door open for rebirth. rebirth is what we live for. nothing like a little shake up to make you feel alive.


in other news.
i had a suprise good evening with abe and holly. we played carcassonne at my house after work, then went over to their place for dinner (yum) and more games. excellent time.

heading into work early.

Taurus
The Sun is in Libra and the Moon is in Aries. The people in positions of authority don't seem to know what they're doing. Communications between them are garbled. You can use this situation to your advantage. Quietly do what's most effective, as only you know how. You're a master at this.

having trouble working. dreams cloudy. not sure who i am building for- us or them. everything is caught up in this web of hush hush. i am starting to sound like a captain's log. resolved by design.

but besides that things are dandy. heading up to mt rainer with old friends this weekend. i am missing a race out from edmonds, but thought i would take the opportunity to run away to see the fall colors. weekend of the 13th is the 2001 puget sound sailing championships. I am psyched. I get to race on Quorum with Murray + usual crew. on both sat and sun, i believe. Why I love racing... Murray, Rick, Suzanne, Doug, and Alex are great sailors. they/we talk eachother through each race. it is a competition, but you are competing with the wind.

i am excited to breathe some fresh rainer air on friday night.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Week of September 27, 2001

Here are three of my deepest spiritual aspirations: 1) to develop the capacity to thrive in the midst of raging contradictions; 2) to be discerning as I protect myself from people's flaws while at the same time being generous as I celebrate their beauty; 3) to refrain from dividing the world into two groups, those who help and agree with me and those who don't. I mention these nearly impossible goals, Taurus, because it so happens to be a perfect time for you to make great headway in accomplishing them.

ooops...
didn't mention 3 dozen oysters, 1 pound of big fatty prawns and a jug of bourbon. nate's coming over for some eats. heh heh.

hi. i'm home for what seems to be the first time in ages and my internet connection is holding strong for now (i am having an issue with my cisco 675 modem that i havent bothered fixing, i'm lazy and have a high pain threshold). So anyways, i am home. i do not have a niece yet, though it is 2 days past due date. cathy and matt must be freaking. i am in my gonna-be-an-uncle way. my godson, calvin, spoke his first sentence yesterday. "i troed it", in reference to a ball to a dog.

kayaking was godlike. to be away from the city when cities are tumbling is a good thing. i am doing more of that this winter. dungeness spit. sailing. i got plans i got schemes. saw many seals, a mink, 3 bald eagles, countless starfish, kelp beds, several herds of bighorn sheep, all kinds of birds (harlequin duck, ohhhh), oh geeess....all kinds of stuff. i was a little disapointed that the guides idea of nondairy option was to provide for myself or do without, fortunately i provided, but besides that and a need to get away from the small group that we were with, it was great. tia and i just hung back and had our own trip. sped up when we needed to, but mostly just kept to ourselves. drank a bit, played scrabble, watched the sound and the islands slip by. my arms were sore. i will leave it at that.

work is... still hanging in there. it doesn't feel good though. wondering what i can do to help, but feeling helpless. feeling not asked for my opinion. feel manipulated. which is odd for apex... i used to not feel that way ever.... which is a lie... i did feel that way in points past, but it was always an exception that i could be indignant about.

oh boy....

back from kayaking and portland.
Pictures up at sneakyfreak.com.