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I guess my brother decided NOT to take me with him on his vacation.  I'll be okay with it, I guess...he probably had to move quicker than he originally planned.  I won't hold this against him and I'll wish him the best of times.

At least I won't have to attend a stupid St. Patrick's Day party like I did last time.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 13, 2014

In the old fairy tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, "open sesame." This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says "open sesame" himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers' plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of "open sesame." It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

This week promises a magic carpet ride and some shaking for the Sheikh.  Maybe we'll Rock some Casbah as well.

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The prospect of vacation travel meant a change in footwear--"athletic" shoes to replace the sneakers that fell apart around Christmas last year.



Breaking them in now. Expect to be someplace other than Rather Manor sometime this week.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 6, 2014

For the itch you are experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief. Nor would over-the-counter medications like calamine lotion. No, Sagittarius. Your itch isn't caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can't be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is, shall we say, more in the realm of a soul itch -- a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I'm guessing that there may be just one effective cure: Become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can, and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you.

My brother is talking vacation...if his travelling bone is in need of exercize, then so is mine.

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Chillin' Out (the story I was writing ten years ago) WAS my dream vacation. It happened in my dreams, and it was a dream to make real, but it still isn't REAL.

Suddenly it's "out of print" too.

Anybody want to be a Beta reader? I want somebody I can trust to help me get it to a publishable length. Even unfinished, it's much too long.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of July 21, 2011

Do you stare for hours every day into little screens like those on smart phones, computer monitors, and TVs? If so, I recommend that you tear your gaze away from them more than usual in the coming week. A change in your brain chemistry needs to happen, and one good way to accomplish it will be to feast your eyes on vast panoramas and expansive natural scenes. Doing so will invigorate your thinking about the design and contours of your own destiny, and that would be in sweet alignment with the astrological omens. So catch regular views of the big picture, Sagittarius. Treat clouds and birds and stars as if they were restorative messages from the wide-open future. Gaze lovingly at the big sky.


As Max Headroom said it, "I need a change of screen-ery."
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Probably Great Britain. Need to look up my family roots.

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Apr. 18th, 2011 10:14 pm
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From e-mail, specifically my Spamtrap: Who, in their right mind, would think that I could possibly be in the market for a vacation to Pigeon Forge?

* * *

Has anybody else on LiveJournal seen a lot of sockpuppets show up in the Comments lately? I removed a couple this past week. When their statements show up 3500 times in a Google sweep, I get suspicious.
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Someplace in the Tropics and/or the Southern Hemisphere...even though it's fairly pleasant here (and mostly snow-free) at the moment, I know it could change in an instant.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 12, 2010

I recommend that you enjoy an abundance of recreational time in the coming days, Sagittarius. But I hope that you will favor a rigorous physical challenge over lying lazily on the beach. I hope that you will read great literature instead of mass market paperbacks, and that you'll attend a brain-bending workshop rather than being a spectator at a sports event. Catch my drift, Sagittarius? Say yes to embarking on a vision quest that scares the fear out of you and pumps up your spiritual ambition; say no to wasting away in a puddle of sluggish, circuitous daydreaming.


With Mum recovering from surgery now, I'll be too busy keeping up with her and having to cross town repeatedly for that purpose to do anything like R&R as described.

She's doing quite well, thank you. But she has a ways to go before she'll be close enough to 100% for her to come back to Rather Manor.

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Jun. 5th, 2010 09:58 pm
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The other night I dreamed that, once a shopping mall's tenant viability had sunken below a subsistance level, the property had instead repurposed itself as an indoor amusement park. All the interior decor had changed, from walls to flooring to lighting, but it was all still in the same general shell exterior it had as a center of retail commerce.

In the coming years I would make it a regular haunt, playing some of the games and lunching on weiners and chips.
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...Other than the fact that we ate dinner an hour early for no reason whatsoever.
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I don't think it's been invented yet. *shrug*
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I really could have stayed another week in Florida, but I got enough of the things on my list done and all the people who matter most to me. Darn it, if America had actual passenger trains running I'd shuttle between here and there all the time.

* "And I'm Never Going Back To My Old School..." As said earlier, on St. Patrick's Day a high school classmate had invited me and my brother to a party at an Irish/Sports bar. Going was a necessary mistake. The music was way too loud to carry on conversations. We found our "party" but beyond two or three people we didn't "mingle" and while I thought I recognized one woman--I didn't want to talk to her. The truth came to me that if I really wanted to socialize with my classmates in school, I would have. These days there is no meaning attaching me to this crowd. All of a sudden I feel okay with having been shunned and flunked. I just didn't fit in.

* Too many of the people I know are now attached to oxygen apparati. If you smoke, quit. If you don't smoke, don't start.

* I will never again go in a Disney store. Mike dragged me in one so he could look at Princess figures. They'd never hire me, but I bet working there would drive a lot of people insane.

* I will probably swear off eating more than one meal a day at a restaurant. Not so much the expense, or necessarily the food...just the stress is enough.

* Q-105 is back. The Tampa station is now Sixties/Seventies/Eighties oldies rather than baseline Top 40, but they haven't lost the style that made us fans for so long.

* I decided to not be the Lipinski Proxy this time. Dana's fantasy baseball league is down to five participants so their draft today will probably run a lot quicker even without my assistance.

* Atlanta's highways are bedlam. Both ways we had trouble with crowds and volume slowdowns. Dunno what route I'll take next time tho'.
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Yes, I'm seated at my own desk, with my own computer and my own keyboard (well, I am grateful to my brother and my uncle and my friend's mother for in turn loaning me the use of their laptops, all of them with superior connectivity--but I can't get used to the thin little keyboards they have). Wouldn't you know it that the best weather of the week was the travel day BACK?

It was a demanding drive back and I need to decompress and peel off my sunburned skin. More to come.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 18, 2010

The Hebrew word chalom means "dream." In his book Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it's derived from the verb "to be made healthy and strong." Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, which means "recovery, recuperation." Extrapolating from these poetic hints and riffing on your astrological omens, I've got a prescription for you to consider: To build your vitality in the coming weeks, feed your dreams. And I mean "dreams" in both the sense of the nocturnal adventures you have while you're sleeping and the sweeping daytime visions of what you'd like to become.


Well, I suppose I've been doing that lately. In the course of this journey, I've reconnected with my older world and the older versions of myself. I've seen places that inspired passages of Chillin' Out, and I've found new fodder for projects real, spiritual, artistic and intellectual.

Watch this space. The return voyage and debriefing to come.
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Midmorning yesterday brother Dana and I pile into the car...ExpandA whole day's drive )

It turned out that a standoff happened between Pasco County Police and a bank robber whose getaway car had broken down in the middle of the highway. The cops had to block off the highway and surround him with their cars so he couldn't escape. He held them off with his own gun for five hours before he surrendered...and even then the cops had to search the side of the road for the loot he threw out the window of his car before they could re-open the highway.

Today the plan is to see old friends and long-lost relatives.

McMunnday

Mar. 15th, 2010 01:10 pm
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We shifted our Florida lodging from the house of Lipin III to the home of my aunt and uncle, the McMunns today. I'll attempt a set of Stevitos for dinner to go along with the pasta salad. Haven't gotten in touch with Sempai Mike yet.

MORE TO COME.

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