Life Kills: January 2006 Archives

The psycho-circus does me no good. Insane people very quickly try my patience. Fortunately, I have lots and lots of patience. But wow, man.

Karma doesn’t seem to be on my side right now. I must’ve kicked a priest recently, or stepped on a puppy-dog’s tail, or something evil like that. Okay, no, that’s not really accurate – karmic influence aside, it hasn’t really been altogether bad, per se. I think I just feel slightly overwhelmed.
And I don’t think it’s even about feeling overwhelmed. I don’t know what it’s about. Bleagh, I don’t enjoy feeling so… undecided. Decidedly undecided.

Today there’s a great breeze, a blazingly beautiful sun, and it smells like green. This is why I love to live in Florida – it just smells right sometimes.

I miss some moments of my past today, but that could just be me ruminating. Or it could be indigestion. Either way, I wonder if the people I knew back then knew how to behave naturally, if that’s the way they were, or if they behaved specifically that way because that was the way to interact with me? Questioning that leads one to wonder if that’s not simply the case now.

Oh, and how. Such philosophical meanderings… psssssshaw!

...I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say “hello.”

I sang that to a girl once. She said goodbye, regardless of how many hellos I threw out. Or maybe I was the one that said goodbye on that one…? I don’t remember, it was so long ago. Stopped serenading chicks after that one, though.

Ack, there’s so much going on. Beginning to feel frazzled again, I think, in this mad scramble to make sense out of it all.

On the positive side, I’ve streamlined a lot of things. I’ve reworked my schedule to get my climb on again. I’d slowed down to once a week (if I was lucky), and I realize that I’m just not as strong as I was just a few months ago. Not by a long shot. The technique is mostly there, but it’s like I’d forgotten how to push myself. Lazy climbing? Yeap. Apparently it’s possible.
So last night I pushed myself at Coral Cliffs. Not a lot (don’t want to injure myself just yet), but I jumped on a couple of bitchy climbs. Yellow 5.10 went down after a few attempts, the hardest part is doing a sorta hand-to-foot match and then climbing up the chimney. Chris does set the best routes, though…

Gotta lose weight. Gotta gain strength. Gotta climb harder. That’s the mission.

Heaven’s gonna burn your eyes…

Featuring the guy from Trainspotting… actually, I think both guys were in Trainspotting. Yep, both the crazy Irish guy and Sickboy from Trainspotting are the main characters in this movie about a highwayman (a bandit) and a con-man who start some serious thievery.
Anyway, it’s an entertaining movie that’s worth a rental or if you can, catch it on Showtime.

Happy New Year people!

New photos up in the gallery, and there’s more coming up from the New Years’ party in the keys. Went to Islamorada, to the excellent and world-famous Tiki Bar, and partied like animals. Had a bit of a stomachache, but that quickly subsided against the onslaught of pain-numbing alcoholic imbibement.

And how.

So it was great fun, there’s lots of pictures, and I hope everyone has a great new year. It’s another year, another start for a lot of things. Some people have resolutions, some people have some big changes in mind, and some people just hope everything stays exactly the same. To each of ‘em, I hope they all reach their goals.