rawmindz

First I stole a panda bear, then we drank malt liquor together. I’m much better at holding my liquor than a panda bear. Detective McNulty makes a mess, and then he has to clean it up. Rhonda is smarter than Jimmy.

http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook

I just joined the YWCA.  I’ve been told about the relatively new Midtown Y for over a year and it’s always sounded like a nice place with a lot of amenities.  So, I was pleased to learn about the indoor track, the basketball courts and swimming pool.  Just in the last couple of days I run a couple of miles on the track and spent some time doing laps in the pool.  I need to work on developing a schedule and a routine to my workout.

One of the nice things is that my health insurance will pick $20 of the $55 a month membership if I go 12 times a month.  That actually seems a manageable amount, and 20 bucks seems like a decent incentive.  The Midtown Y is about midway between work and home, which will make it rather convenient to get to after work.  There’s also the Uptown Y, which is under a lot of construction and the Downtown Y.  I doubt I’ll ever go to the Downtown one, but once some of the construction is finished I can certainly see going the Uptown Y.

I started re-reading Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey recently.  As I was trolling around Goodreads I came across this sorta cute comment from a young reader…

I ended up loving this book once it was finished. I gave it 4 stars only because it was quite difficult to read. It read like a poem and then like the Bible with the “who knows who and who is related to whom”.

The story takes place after the Trojan War. Odysseus has been captured and missing for many years. Odysseus’s wife is in mourning and refuses to marry another man. In the meantime, Odysseus’s son, Telemarkhos, believes that his father is alive and sets out to find him.

I’m enjoying reading it too.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/poem.htm

My favorite place to hang out is having a craft show on Sunday August 3.    I’ll have to find out what time, but I suspect it’s during the day.  I’ve seen some of the work that’ll be there and I think it’ll be pretty good.

http://www.myspace.com/caffetto

It makes me pretty happy that the Caffetto crew are doing this.  Since I moved to Whittier/East Lowry Hill, I find that I want everything I do here to be interesting and new, while allowing me to roam about the same corner all weekend.

funny shit.  we’ve hit the big time.

http://www.bebo.com/Rawmindz07

Just about every week I buy some flowers from my favorite grocery store, The Wedge. Problem is I don’t know squat about flowers, and have shown very little aptitude for understanding nature, despite growing up taking classes at the Arboretum in Richmond, IN, various environmentalism classes in Middle School and High School, being a boyscout, camping, etc, etc. It’s my goal to come to be able to identify the flowers, which I buy, because… I think they’re pretty. So, if you happen to know what this is, feel free to let me know, impovrished ‘though I am.