Flying cities

I've got a dream, a plan to send mankind into space. This won't be the last time I mention it here. It's very simple actually, I have an aerodynamic method of building cities in the sky and without too much of a leap of technology they become self-sustaining cities in space. It's not so much the technology that concerns me as the societal development that is required to live peaceably and which I am hoping is definitively assisted along by properly designing the city to promote co-operation amongst the residents.

Snow day

We took a snow day today. We had a really fun workshop scheduled, decorating Easter eggs. I can't really tell you if it was a "right" decision or a "wrong" one. It was snowing when we posted it at 10 am and the weather report said that it would continue all day through the evening. So we posted it on the two major networks we are currently using to get info out, Facebook and Meetup. We stayed in at home all day and watched OnePiece, a fabulously and intensely crafted weekly manga turned anime. We don't often take days off, my partner Chelas and I are working so hard at getting Art of Recycle started and there is always so much to do. We work an average of fourteen to sixteen hours a day between the art center and the website programming and the other administration of webformation. We believe that art is so important to making necessary changes in our decadently wasteful society that we pour all our energy into it. We also understand that it is important to balance. Today, no this whole weekend we spent most of our time in bed watching Luffy and his pirate crew battle evil and helping us to recharge our sense of values. We volunteered our services for two events to help promote the art center on Fri and Sun. We opted to let the balanced meal plan lapse a little and had less veggies and more carbs than optimal. :) I know we disappointed at least one family by re-scheduling the workshop, but I also know that it is likely the last day we will take off for possibly months and only the second weekend that we have lazed around for in the past year. Next weekend has almost nothing scheduled but with the weather looking better we need to be taking care of beautifying the outside of the art center and zoom zoom zoom on into and through the summer. Deep breath and goodnight.

Breathe in, breathe out, Move on

I still don't exactly know what it means to breath from my diaphragm, but I do know how to breathe. As a massage therapist I know how and when to tell people 'now take a big deep breath from your belly.' or 'from your chest.' or from both chest and belly.' Breathing right is about the most important thing you can do for your health. Breathing right burns calories, stretches muscles, loosens joints, relieves stress, increases blood flow to the brain and body and a host of other things. Breathing is the core principle of yoga, Ti-Chi, and other martial arts. I strive to always become better at breathing.

Really. Pay attention to your breathing. It will change your world.

Mr. Nobody Special

Meta

Well I created a list of keywords for the website and added them to all the pages. Then while doing a little more research on meta data I came across a blog (from a SEO company) which claims that most search engines do not put much weight on keywords anymore (2001) as they have been overused and then it gave another update (2007) that said they don't even use the keyword tag anymore. It recommended focusing on the title and description meta tags instead. So I spent another several hours updating all that stuff.

Uptight

I used to hold my farts in
my parents said
it was polite.
No wonder I spent my younger days
being so uptight.

Turtle in a Flash!

Well, three days or a week or something (the details are a bit hazy from staring at the computer for longer and closer than my mom said was healthy when I was younger) and all I have to show for it is an animated painted turtle that crawls off the screen. Aauughh! Little details going back and forth between the tutorials and the software. Trying to figure out where the such-and-such tool is and what it's icon looks like. Then rewinding to remember what it was I was supposed to do with that tool. Then trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Then trying to remember out where that youtube video was that shows the next step. And finally after all that giving it back to Chelas and having her attach it to the video we shot...and then the damn little happy turtle just up and crawls off the screen with no thanks at all.

I love living in the future!

In 2001 I took a trip to NYC and in the window display of a Times Square shop where the primary items for sale were models of the Statue of Liberty and "I <3 NY" t-shirts I saw a pair of sunglasses looking tv screens. They were about an inch thick at the centers, and as suave as the hottest sunglasses from the eighties. I realized right then that I lived in the future. The flying cars that were predicted in the Jetsons were being developed by Moller (still in development now in 2011).  Since then I constantly find I still believe it to be true, (although I do still feel that we are living in the dark ages of medical science). I see us with a global network of communication from handheld posting of pictures taken with our smartphones directly uploaded to social networks and viewed by our friends (and prospective employers) around town and around the world. I have finally practiced my way to a reasonable typing speed (by using passwords that use letters and numbers less common and forcing myself to use proper hand placement on the keyboard while imputing them. The future still seems a little humdrum at times, especially when I have to learn CSS and HTML and Java and Flash and more just to make a freakin' simple website. And then there's having to post to the various blogs regularly, and still have time to create new works of art, and go walking, and remembering to go to bed at a reasonable hour, and I'm not even getting much time to go out and party anymore. Well I did have a fantastic time in the AZ desert near the turn of the millennium and you can be sure many stories will come out of that on here or another of my blogs soon (when I realized that it was half-way through 1999 and I would never have another chance to "Party like it's 1999" I went into party mode full bore).  Anyway this whole web/website world is new to me and taking more of my time than I wish to get it going, even though I know that once it is built it will be fabulous and as long as I learn well I will be able to expand it with little input. Next step is to learn how to blog from my phone.  What a long strange trip it's been (so far!).