Secrets of happiness

My budget just got blown up this week, a fuel pump went bad on the Honda, for a domestic, it would be cheap enough to fix, 30 dollars and some bolts an voila! fixed.

Not so with Mr. honda, try 180 dollars and a gas tank removal and it still Isn't fixed.

I should be upset, but it is an opportunity, I've been meaning to start riding a bicycle into work. Loss some weight, and save some money, but it is just so darn easy to hop in the car and drive to where ever it is that I wanted to go.

Now, that no longer is an option, I am looking forward to this actually, I perform better and try harder when the back is against the wall, and in this case, I have only gain in front of me, not loss.

This is a secret in a way, problems can be opportunities for growth or effort or change, if I solve this problem, I will achieve some goals and pick up a fun hobby.

How great is that?

The 300

The film the 300 depicts the Spartans as some sort of pro freedom type band of merry maruaders.

Unfortuantely, that difers from Spartan reality.

In Sparta, children were conscripted into military training at the age of 6, that is if the passed the fitness test, if they flunked that, they were left to die. At the age of 6 they were inducted and the training began, they were now property of the State, they fought each other in training drills, and to graduate to manhood, they ahd to sneak out at night and find a peasant to strangel with their barehands, then they lived in barracks until the age of 40 or so, when if married they could spend part of their time with their wives, a Spartan didn't "retire" until 55 or so, and then they were free to live on their own plot of land with their wife.
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I like the Spartans, there theory of "state as armed camp" makes a sort of sense, and we see that in practice in the world today, from North Korea to Cuba, however it should be pointed out that those aren't exactly the freest places in the world....

Unexpected luck

Took the bike to work the other day, my co worker had already bought a new bike, Siggh.

A different co woker decided to ride the bike just for kicks, and sure enough, he broke it doing wheelies. Then he offered to buy the bike off of me for more than I was going to sell it to my other friend for, how cool is that?

I see Libby got convicted, and of course his lawyer is out in front of the courthouse pledging to file appeals..I also notice that Libby will be going to prison, and the lawyer will be going home a millionaire from Libby's legal fees...

Another Monday

It's monday again, a bit under the weather as well, but my goodnes unless I feel like a truck ran me over I'm going into work.

For the money?

No, I promised a mexican co worker that I would bring him a bike and I forgot to bring it into work for him. He has to walk everywhere, so if we are enver to poor to help others, why not?


Progress is good as well on my goals, and I've discovered Ubuntu CD's, man, that is one heck of a deal it is more capable out of the box than any windows system that I have ever messed around with.

Don't look back Bill, I think Linux is gaining on you......

The promise of Spring

Well we have made it to March, spring is just around the corner, with
it's promise of new beginnings with every rising bud of a flower.

I like the springtime, before the summer heat wilts everything including the people who work under the unrelenting sun. In the Spring the woman seem more beautiful, the air seems cleaner, and the promise of life abounds.

Enjoy!

So far the plan is going wonderfully well (AMDG), I've lost a good ten pounds, saved a ton of money by laying off the booze, and actually *gasp* gotten a few long festering projects off the ground like installing Zip Drives (remember those anyone?) and programming other things and changing oil and and....

The language study has been lagging,
So I cannot Vous et Vous Francaise as of yet, and my Espansih is still poco...but it's spring, and the sun will be out, and the birds will be birding, and well