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Saturday, March 23, 2002

Blogging and not blogging

Earlier this month I found a blog that looked really interesting to me, No:TV. It is all about someone trying to live there life without TV. I would like to see what kinds of things people write about when they are trying to do this. The disappointment is this blog has not been updated since I first saw it. I wonder if the person has forgotten about it.

I keep on seeing blogs on their first or second post. I wonder how many people start and never find the time to keep it up. I guess weblogs are not that different that everything else in this world. I know that I let Sad Salvation go unupdated from time to time. I will not just let it fade away without putting up a fight.

- Rich, 4:24 PM |

Travel Suggestions

My friend Angela-la-la sent me this. I think she has some good travel advice here.

I have some thoughts regarding long road trips. I've never driven across country, but i do drive up to Canada every year, and have done the trip in varying lengths and number of days and detours. Here are my observations:

1. I think unless there is someplace you know you want to stay longer, you should try and drive every day, but vary the times. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. Even if you just do two hours one day and ten the next, it gives you a feeling of movement. Plan for maybe one or two longer stopovers where you can stay in the same place twice in a row so you don't go completely nomadically nuts.

2. Jack adds, "plan out your trip fifteen times in advance." Once you decide on a route, put it aside for a day or two and go back to it to see if it still looks good. Driving without confidence really makes a trip harder.

3. You might be able to get a new seat for your car for fifty bucks at a junkyard, if that's a concern, since it sounds like that might make or break Cathy going.

4. This probably doesn't need to be said, but remain open to the possibility of changing your mind about what you want to do once you get there. You might want to spend an extra day in, say, Vegas. You might spend an hour at the Grand Canyon and want to move on. Last time i went to Toronto i really thought i wanted to stay in Niagara Falls until i got there and decided it sucked, and i got to Toronto a day early.

5. Bring more cds than you think you'll need and less food. I am in the habit of packing a big cooler which takes up a lot of space and then remembering that there are supermarkets everywhere, not just in Philly ;).

I'm sure i will think of more things as time goes on. I am making my first solo trip to Montreal and i'm sure i will have all kinds of different thought once i travel without a backup.

P.S. Also, don't forget car games! They've saved my life (literally, they stop me from falling asleep).

- Rich, 12:27 PM |

Friday, March 22, 2002

Friday Five

1. What is your favorite time of year? Spring or Fall. I like the way the world changes around me.

2. What is it about your favorite season that, well, makes it your favorite season? There is something back East when Spring is just start to break the vail of winter. It makes me feel very alive.

3. What is your least favorite time of year? Why? Winter, there is not much to winter here in San Jose. The days are just shorter.

4. Do you do anything to celebrate or recognize the changing of seasons? On the first day of summer I like to find someplace outside to sit and drink beer.

5. What's your favorite thing to do outside? Walking is my favorite outdoor activity. I really like riding my bike, but I do not gdet to do it often.

- Rich, 11:23 PM |

Songs for the trip

I am looking for songs for my up coming trip. I am driving to Portland and I would like to make a CD mix of the drive. Please give my your suggestions of what should be on this mix.

- Rich, 1:14 PM |

Thursday, March 21, 2002

Music for the Masses

My friend has decided to open up big bully's song of the day. It looks like this is something we should all check out from time to time. I am adding this to the links here on Sad Salvation.

He just added a counter, so lets make him think a lot of people are visiting it.

- Rich, 2:21 PM |

Portland To Do List

This time next week I will be driving 101 North through the land of the redwood giants to the Oregon Coast. There are still things I need to do before I am ready for the trip. I hope I am not forgetting anything.

To Do List...
Get oil Change
Do Laundry
Make 1 Mix CD
Select CDs For Car
Install Dial-Up service on laptop
put coat into car
pack cloths
Clean Car (back seat)

Done...
Reserve Hotel Room
Contact Doug & Amber
Request time off

- Rich, 12:19 PM |

Spider-man is coming!

I have been pumped about a Spider-man movie since John Cusack was young enough to play the role of Peter Parker.

The people at this site are a little more geeked then I am. I would like the web shooters to be just like the comic book, but I will not be that upset if they are not.

- Rich, 1:01 AM |

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Portland Agenda

Today I figured out my agenda for my trip to Portland. I sat in a meeting and wrote it out on the my Palm Pilot. It felt good to think about Portland while other people droned on. This time next week I will be driving north on 101. I am really looking forward to it. This is what I am looking forward to.

Hang out with Doug
Hang out with Amber
Powells City of Books
Powells on Hawthorne
Drink Beer
Laugh at the old 800.COM Building
Drink Coffee
Go to the Portland Saturday Market
Have pizza at the Bagdad
Hang out at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Check out any new McMenamins offerings
Portland Rose Garden
Hit all Portand record Stores

This is also cross posted at Travel-Blougue

- Rich, 9:45 PM |

Not Personal, Just Business

This is a list of the The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business . As they say in the article, in a perfect world this list would not exist.

This was liberally stolen from Meg at Not.So.Soft. Thanks Meg

- Rich, 5:38 PM |

Tuesday, March 19, 2002

Tuesday Too

1.) Would you please point us toward a prior post that you're particularly fond of, or expresses just what you had in mind on a subject which may or may not be substantive in nature?
The Unnamed Woman
I think it is well writen and the reader could understand something about me.

2.) Who is your favorite artist/artwork?
Edward Hooper: Nighthawks. I cried the first time I saw this painting first hand.

3.) If it were possible to be the other gender for a couple days, after which you could without complications take up where you left off would you try it?
I think I would be an ulgy woman, but I would love to try to be one for a few days. It would be great to see how I would be treated. I would want to hit on other women.

- Rich, 5:32 PM |

al Qaeda

I am subscribed to the Nightline mailing list. I usually dislike network news. Shows like 20/20 and Dateline get me angry a good deal of the time. Nightline is a show I really enjoy watching. It is not as good as Frontline, but it is the best thing on Network TV.

Today's e-mail message had an excerpt from the al Qaeda operations manual. Here is the table of contents:

1) Gathering information about the enemy, the land, the installations.
2) Kidnapping enemy personnel, documents, secrets, and arms.
3) Assassinating enemy personnel as well as foreign tourists.
4) Freeing the brothers who are captured by the enemy
5) Blasting and destroying the places of amusement, immorality, and sin.
6) Blasting and destroying the embassies and attacking vital economic centers.
7) Blasting and destroying bridges leading into and out of the cities.

It does not take a military genius to know These things would be helpful in a war. I wonder if this will ever be available on the public market. I forget the name of the mail order bookstore that used to carry things like this.

- Rich, 11:50 AM |

It is like the Superbowl for movies

I am not a big fan of the Oscars. This is really odd for a man that loves movies. I think they miss what I love about movies. The oscars are about people in Hollywood patting themselves on the back. I really dislike that whole idea.

With all of that here are some pretty good Oscar tidbits.

- Rich, 11:34 AM |

Monday, March 18, 2002

Going Cross Country

I have been thinking about my prosepctive trip cross country. There are too arguments that keep runing through my head.

1) I might be biting off more then I can chew.
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2) If I do not do this now, I will not get the chance to do it again.

Both of these ideas are eating at me. I am not sure which one is going to win. It costs a lot of money to drive cross country. I think there might be better ways for me to spend that money. I can pay off some bills or save up for a new car. I am always spending my money this way and paying for it later.

The other side of that argument is that it is just money. A friend of my said that he spend all of his "dot.com boom" money on a boat. He has been racing the boat for the last three years. The money and the boat are gone now. He would not trade it for the world. It is the experence that is important. If I do not do this now, I will never get this experence.

Now is the right time in my life for me to do this. I am only responcable for myself. I do not have a house or a family to worry about. I am the only person that can be effected by a bad decision. I should just relax. If it is too much money, I will make up for it later.

I will decide after my trip to Portland. It depeneds how that goes. It is my test for driving cross country.

- Rich, 1:37 AM |

Monday Morning

It is 1:30 in the morning. I have been more productive in the last two hours then I have been all weekend. I let these thing happen to me all the time. I know if I stay up, I could get some writing done. I also know I would be in no shape to work tomorrow. I will have to pick work over writing. It is the choice I always make. It is just who I am.

- Rich, 1:35 AM |

Sunday, March 17, 2002

Future, Present, Past

Driving around Sunnyvale yesterday I saw the above words on the side of a building. The words were in neon. The building as a psychic reading/fortune teller place. As I drove around I thought about the words over and over again.

I have never really trusted psychics. I do not beleive they are real. If I was really a psychic, I would be scared to use that power. I could see myself screwing up people's lives. It is something I would not want to deal with. I would feel bad if people did the wrong thing with my infromation.

The more I thought the sign, the more I thought about the Past part of it. I think that most people go to psychics to see about the future. They want to know want is in store for them. Maybe if they know, they can do something about it. There are lots of spins on this whole idea.

I was thinking about a person going to psychics because there was one event in their life that they did not understand. One event that they did not know everything that happened. They would go to the psychic to see why it happened that way. They would go to the psychic to see why did people act that way. I do not know if people go to psychics for this reason or not. It would be an interesting device to use in a novel.

- Rich, 11:33 PM |

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