a case of neato bandito

It never fails that things I want to write about always come to me when I am the most unable to write about them. The drive home from my parents house yesterday afternoon was no different. But I still plan to write what I started thinking about writing.

But this is one of those things that needs more time than the occasional draft of a poem or whatnot, so today I've been delving into the wonderful world of Wikipedia for a little more understanding of what it is my brain is trying to think up....sometimes I FEEL information that seem very real and retrievable, but my brain can't interpret them as anything other than random ideas of the unconscious....that's my hypothesis for now, at least. BUT, in my digging about on wiki today I came across something that made my day!....DOCUMENTED SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY for something I dreamt about a while back. Something that I thought was just fantasy creation in my dream world--and it was a dream I blogged about. That is so dang COOL [to me] I can't even begin to describe my glee.

Anyway, here is the blog (the part in reference is the ocean I swam in)

Sci-Fi Dream

And HERE is what I accidentally came upon on Wikipedia. I've included an excerpt below:

In astronomy and cosmology, dark fluid is an alternative theory to both dark matter and dark energy and attempts to explain both phenomena in a single framework...

In the traditional approach to modeling effects of gravity, general relativity is assumed to be valid at cosmological scales as well as in the solar system where its predictions have been more accurately tested. Not changing the rules of gravity, however, implies the presence of dark matter and dark energy in parts of the universe where the curvature of the space-time manifold is far less than that of in the solar system. It is phenomenologically possible to alter the equations of gravity in regions of low space-time curvature such that the dynamics of the space-time causes what we assign to the presence of dark matter and dark energy.^[2] Dark fluid even goes one step beyond the standpoint of the generally covariant modified theories of gravity. It hypothesizes that the fabric of space acts much like a fluid. So dark fluid currently provides a general and powerful model for altering the dynamics of the space-time manifold. In this theory, space would flow, coagulate, compress, or expand just like any other fluid..."


If my father were alive I probably would have known about this stuff before because he was completely obsessed (in a good way) with Astronomy...and was, in fact, described as a scientist. So maybe it's folded away in my mind because this kind of stuff can be passed down in genes of the psyche. Perhaps they are gifts from beyond. Regardless. This made my day. I am glad for however it arrived in my world.

(another thing that made my day is discovering I can create a "book"  from Wikipedia articles I'm reading, then save it as a PDF and print it all in one go. that is really just fantastic.)

ignorance is bliss I wish I were a bumblebee

Aerodynamically the bumblebee should not be able to fly-
but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway-

-Mary Kay Ash


(there is no blue to swallow this)

yogi quotes, good fortunes and other better things

Last week I stepped into the bathroom at work to fill up a flower vase and wondered to myself did I remember to ask the concierge to put in a work order for that leaky toilet? certainly don't need any deficiencies on us for careless slip hazards...

then immediately I noticed the nice new flooring that was installed a week prior--after the leaky toilet was replaced--and I had to stop and allow it to sink in.....hmmm. dang. I think I dreamt that.

So work has been getting into my dreams and my dreams have been getting into my day time thought processes. Then I worked too much last week. Pretty much 10-12 hour days all the way through until Friday when I was too exhausted to hang in there past 3:30. So when the sneezy runny nose I'd ignored turned into the am I getting a cold feeling last night, it's no surprise that woke up with a cold this morning.  I despise the summer cold. I really do. Fall and winter colds are crappy, but there's just something wrong about having a runny-nosed, stuffy-headed cold in the summer time. But, my brother used to say: "you wore out your immune system, man"...so I reckon I did it to myself. 

Another thing that occurred last week (could have been the week before, not sure) was a conversation I had with a co-worker about just how dang bitter we've gotten. And I feel like I've tried to be more positive, but this has been a tough year. And I've said that in years past and meant it then too. This year has just been a lot of work. It hasn't been terribly painful. I haven't had any devastating losses, but it's been a year of challenges. And I shut the blog down for a while because I'd had too much of the online world and it's an easy thing to turn your back on when there's more negativity leaching out of it than good. So I looked on here the other day and realized that my blog has turned into the posting ground of a terrible cynic. Don't get me wrong, in many ways I haven't changed much, but I'm not that grumpy all the time. It just comes out on here because for a while I've had a very negative association with all things blog-based. 

I decided to change the scenery a little bit, because my life isn't bad. It's actually damn good. Seriously, I cry just about every week thinking about how much good I have in my life--my blog should reflect it a little more often. 

(That's not to say that I take back any of my other posts. I maintain this attitude. All except that I've decided that I will vote this year. And I've decided who for. So that's different. But not much else)

Since I've been feeling a tad bit under the weather the last few days the last thing I want to do is cook. So we ordered chinese last night and pizza tonight. One of my favorite things about Chinese food is the spicy mustard sauce....but mostly I love the fortunes. I like consumables that come with little surprise anecdotes, which is also why I mainly only buy Yogi tea. And I have stashes of the best ones in random meaningful places. Picture frames, journals, favorite books...stuff like that. And while I'm not great at keeping up rituals, but here I'll start the latest idea of mine, by posting pictures of the good ones when they happen.

Here we go: 

Last night's fortunes (they gave us THREE, which is one of my favorite numbers...which reminds me of another story I should blog about later)

those are pretty good fortunes to crack out of a sugar cookie if I do say so myself!

And tonight's Yogi quote. Possibly my most favorite of all Yogi quotes to date: 

So there are a few positive things. Another positive thing is Rob told me this morning that I was talking in my sleep last night. And I really rarely ever talk in my sleep. When I do, he says "you were talking in your fairy talk"... because he says it sounds like something he should be able to understand, but can't. My cousin Logan talks in fairy talk. Rob does sometimes but usually I can understand everything (and frequently can get him to keep talking if I talk back). My brother also speaks clearly in his sleep. I'm not sure what determines the language you use when sleep-talking, but I sort-of like the idea of fairy talk. Those who know me, know why. 

Happy Monday