New Blog!

So, I decided to start a little side blog containing all the pearls of wisdom I'm banging out as I ride my bike to work, as well as the pictures I find myself constantly taking. Which, from a cell phone, are pretty awesome. Iffin' I do say so m'self.

Cyclic Thinking

You should be able to subscribe to it and all that. Yes, it's pretty ugly right now. Yes, I will fix it when I'm not supposed to be at work. That green needs to be toned down. But anywho, there you go.

Peace!

- David

Creature Feature

Here at AbsentMindfully.com I try to bring my dear, sweet, half-dozen-or-so readers the best in all the crap I run into being me. This includes pictures, videos, humorous anecdotes, comics, and links to other stuff I think is awesome.

Recently I started using Google Reader which is a nifty tool that subscribes to all the sites I frequently visit and lays them out in one easy to read page. <3 Google. Now I only go to one website and it gathers all the updates from the other five-hundred I read daily.

One cool feature is the ability to share particularly awesome subscriptions with others so they, too, can enjoy the best fruits the Internets has to offer. And of course, Google made it easy to put this feature on my blog. So of course, I did.

To the right there in the Stalk Me section you'll now see Daily Shared Awesomeness, which is the newest and bestest five things that washed up on my electronic shore. You can even visit the automagically generated Daily Shared Awesomeness page by clicking the "Read More..." link below those or clicking the link in Stalk Me. You can even subscribe to that yourself!

Every day I'll be picking new things, so hopefully you see something cool. I know right now it's all webcomics but that's just because I didn't want it to be empty. I read things that don't require pictures. I swear! Well, you'll see for yourself.

Okay, back to work. Or perhaps lunch. Or perhaps... your face!

- David

¡Adorablé!

Oh R. Stevens. Can I replace half of my brain with half of yours?

- David

Bike Communte!

Today, I am a bicycle commuter.

I'll write more later, but here's some pics:

That's my apartment on the left and the sidewalk to the ferry dock:


Where the captain resides:


The only traffic that slowed me down today:


Walking the pugs earlier:


And then one from last night when I got home:


And all on my cell phone!

Write more later, but it worked out perfectly.

- David

No New Taxes!

Okay, I don't get into politics. I know who the president is, I know I don't like certain policies, but that's about it.

However I am concerned that congress is considering a tobacco tax increase for all tobacco products, but most harshly for cigars. A tax increase of 53.13%. That's insane. Nothing else in the US is taxed this heavily. As a cigar smoker this basically means a $10 cigar is now going to cost me over $15. I don't even want to know what these numbers would mean for all the awesome cigar shoppes across our great nation.

I know a lot of you don't smoke and even fewer don't smoke cigars. Hell, some of you may even be in favor of this. But I think it's shity, not just because it will cost me more to enjoy a hobby that provides a lot of relaxation and social interaction. Not just because it's grossly unnecessary. It's shitty because of all the retired and semi-retired older guys that work and run these little shops. Because of the farmers around the world that have jobs on tobacco farms. Because of the smokers, cigar, pipe, and cigarette alike, who will now have to shell out more of their hard earned cash for no reason. Gas prices are already ridiculous enough. I know more people than not who could stand to have more money in their pockets.

The majority of my fellow tobacco enthusiasts are not going to give up smoking if this tax goes into effect, the same way the majority of people would not give up sugar, butter, chocolate, fast food, alcohol, television, or coffee if the same hefty tax were heaped upon them. All these things aren't healthy for us and they aren't necessary to our lives. But they add that extra sweetness, that extra kick, that makes life enjoyable. I know a lot of people would complain if soda pop or coffee suddenly went up fifty cents for every dollar. For me and a lot of people who smoke cigars, it's exactly the same.

I'm asking you to please take literally two minutes and visit the link below to send an e-mail to the right people letting them know you oppose this. You only have to type in your name and address and the rest is all mouse-clicks. Even if you don't care one way or the other, as a personal favor to your humble blogger, I'd appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I'll owe you one.

Tell Your Congressmen

After you find your officials via ZIP code or state please be sure to send an e-mail to both Congress and your senator. A link for both is within the ACTION ALERT! box.

Thanks for reading and for any help from my online peeps.

- David

Holy Shiat

I have not been this hardcore pumped from a trailer since Brick. And we all know how that turned out.

Jesus Christ. I'm so going.

Sunshine

- David

Pay the Tolle

I think my body is getting sick. I could not pull myself out up of the haze of sleep this morning. My eyes are sore and a headache is developing. Time to OD on the C.

My spirit is sick too. That's probably the real root cause, and not just sharing apartment space and fluids with someone recovering from a fever.

So I'm dusting off Eckhart Tolle. It's been too long. I an a lapsed Buddhist.

In other news I am going to become a green commuter. I an sick of paying for gas. Not very noble intentions, but the end is noble enough. Hello Davidpower, hello cashola, hello booty o' awesomeness.

-Davidtext

Leash-Curb

Dogs Playing Nearly In the River

After only a month of employment I'm already yearning for the days when I was jobless. When my only vocation was long excursions to the parks with my dogs and keeping Kasey and I entertained.

There are benefits to getting a paycheck, but is it worth the Cost of Life, as another David asked before any of us were born? I dunno. I dunno.

Off to another square of green, cheerio.

- Davidtext

Gah

Jesus fuck I'm cranky as shit. That came out more elaquently the last three times I wrote this. Wtf, today was so good.

But at least it's pretty out while the highway is at a stand-still.

- Davidtext

Blue Devil!

So today I was fucking around with pens and Post-Its and this happened:



Blue Devil! Right-click to save.


Yes it's late, yes I'm tired. Yes, I'm adorable.

- BlueDavid

No Cut So What

Woo long hair! People in Arizona are gasping right now.

Harry Squaters

Wednesday morning, stuck in tunnel traffic, which annoys me. I swear I left early enough today. But there is only one way across the water and this is it. Studies have shown that I either show up twenty minutes early or fifteen late, even though the dividing line is itself only ten minutes wide.

People are already camping out for Harry Potter outside the small dinner theatre here. It's Nine in the morning. Kasey is fervent about seeing it, so I'll be in that line soon. I hope people dress up.

Okay, time to focus my chi on parting these fool drivers like the Red Sea.

-Davidtext

The Wind

I want this job. Maybe I'll be him for Halloween and just fuss with dresses and hair all day.

- David

Hilarious & German

German + Spanish is awesome.



- DavidDrinkin'

LIVE SECKSIE WEBCAM 4 YOU

Me love you long time.

So in addition to the awesome Twitter section that I update multiple times a day with my current goings-on, I have now found software that allows me to stream my webcam out into Teh Internets! All two of them!

I'll have it on whenever I'm home so you can see me playing with my hair, prettying up My Little Ponies, eating with my mouth open and jacking off to green tea porn. HAPPY FUN TIME FOR IMMENSE PLEASINGNESS.

Fireworks were cool, we chowed down on veggie burgers and French fries and watched a giant flat barge park itself near our apartment and hurl fireworks into the air so large they went from railing to ceiling.

I been playing Super Mario on my lovely DS Lite and it's kicking my ass. I swear, they have Asian mathematical geniuses calculating exactly when and where I'll jump and precisely placing spikes, pitfalls, and enemies in my way. They should launch space shuttles with their powers of complexity instead of making me cuss at pixels.

Okay, I should get ready for bed. G'night Neverland!

- David

Eek! Spider!

Tarantula

Look at that adorable face. I really like this song.

- David

I want to be there when you're sad.

Misspent Youth

So I'm sitting pretty at the end of my first work week in nearly two months. A company called BestWay took pity and hired me for the job of Ass. System Administrator. This means I take care of servers, computers, telephones, tech support, et cetera, et cetera. I have my own office and a real lacky to supervise, whose name is also David. I'm on salary and work is only about fifteen minutes away, tunnel traffic aside.

It's good. My boss (VP of tech, telecom, and taxes) is named Douglas and has been with the company for over twenty years. We rock the top five in rent-to-own and tax preparation in Virginia and North Carolina. Already I've been tasked with creating a new backup solution/server and moving our e-mail system in-house. Neither of which I have done before, both of which I am making headway on. It's exciting to see how it will all work out.

Everything else is going well, too. Dogs are good, Kasey is good, apartment is good. I'm losing weight steadily and am now hovering around 145 lbs. All you have to do is walk at least a mile a day. It sounds like a lot at first, but after about three days of it you'll be done before you know it. Then you'll start adding miles with ease, feeling better; all that jazz.

I'm reading Walden which I am enjoying immensely. Anyone who knows me and what Walden is about would find that as no surprise. I've often talked about renting out some U-Haul Self Storage place and filling it with a bed, a TV, and other home-ly things and living cheaply inside. I was humorously pleased to find that Henry David had the same idea back in his day, only with railway shipping containers instead. No, he was not a hippy, he was a naturalist. He was about one hundred and fourty years before the flower children.

I'm trying to talk my brother into visiting me on business grounds. He works for my grandmother now, re-selling antiques via eBay. They recently returned from a trip to Boston and Ebay School where they learned to be powersellers. I'm going to them if I come across any priceless pieces.

I need to do laundry or get a pop or both. Sorry there's no meat on this one; Law & Order: CSI is distracting me and the Dr. Pepper I just had wants me to meet his brother.

Have a good night, and if I don't write again soon, a safe Fourth o' July. No burn wards for you!

- David

Polaroids!

sunset.jpg, originally uploaded by BodhiDave.

I just uploaded about thirty-five Polaroid pictures I've taken thus far, check em out.

In other news, my first week of work was pretty good. I'm already doing a ton and getting crap done.

Hope your weekend is going well, peace.

- David