A day in the life

Well it has been quite some time since I started this blog.  Interesting that in the last two years since its inception, all of 2 people other than myself have looked at it (thanks ebon muse for taking pity), with zero comments.  It is clear that I’m not quitting my day job to make a living on the internet any time soon.  But since I did go to all the trouble of setting this thing up so long ago, I think I’ll go ahead and start making some entries.  I think a lot of my reticence about doing more advertising has to do with the fact that I’m not quite ready to “come out” to the whole wide world with regard to my lack of religious beliefs.  So this blog exists, but it’s sort of like letting the whole world read your private email which makes me a bit squeamish.  Sort of like facebook, which I did end up setting up for my genealogy research.

But facebook really does suck for antisocial types like me.  I really on ly use it for family stuff and there still remain a small number of close family members which I have not been completely honest with regarding religion, most notably my parents.  So for the time being this blog will exist more as a personal diary than as anything I will ever release to the general public.  Maybe I’ll delete everything and start over with more of a focus than usual, something non controversial maybe.  But that’s probably pissing into the wind.

So nothing here today.  Weather should be good tomorrow and sunday for Argonne’s open house and Cait’s triathlon downtown.  Mom survived the surgery Wednesday so that’s a good thing, and Barb stayed a few days to get her out of the woods, looks like mom’s doing very well.  more later.   GD

In the dark of night

All alone, nearly lonely, once upon a time

I sit and think and think and think and

wonder what it’s all about. Three cheers for

master quark, a new day is at hand. Listening in

to the noise that passes for silence, the cacaphony of humanity.

So far away, under the same full moon, sit two people in the

twilight of their years. Wondering what the future holds, hoping

for the energy to survive yet another tomorrow. An ear of corn, a

pickup truck, some canned peach jam. Things to while away the time,

good food, good wishes from those so far away that likely ought not

to be. Another day comes to an end, so much to do, with not enough

interest of late, but it pays the bills and there it remains. GD

Interesting places

Go to youtube and search on trebuchet. Play the flaming piano.

GD
070823 20:38 CDT

Hi there

I have no idea whether anything I have to say may interest anyone, but I have a lot of interests so thought I’d kick a few out there. First, a little background. This blog is named gdgd only because wordpress.com insists on at least four letters. My initials are gd, in addition to the fact that gdgd when pronounced sounds disturbingly like things my daughter used to say when she was a baby. I toyed around with various thematic flowery sounding names, but prefer the abrupt bluntness of simply gd, which is also how I’ve signed every email I ever sent since around 1990.

So. What to expect. Main topics that may likely appear in this blog are, in no particular order:

Amateur astronomy

The electromagnetic field

Rock Climbing, traditional, i.e. no fair using active camming devices

Motorcycles, particularly bmw

Religion, in particular fundamentalist christianity. Note capitalization.

Mental health

gd