21st Floor

Right now I am so freakin' lucky...  if you gotta have a 9 to 5 and sit at a PC all day...

Might as well be facing a window on the 21st floor!



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Movie Review: The Fault in Our Stars

Wendy rented it while I was out, but she was just about to start it when I got home.

It had been recommended by my niece Daisy in England, and by Mazzy in San Diego (who we met for the first time on Saturday at a Speakeasy).

My review:

It was good.

Love movies with my favorite actor Willem Dafoe in a supporting, nearly-cameo role.

Plenty of amazing lines, no doubt from the book.

Liked it.

Sea Foam Green

O you...

You are so much wiser than I.

Minor Earthquake

Wisps of cotton blow across the road but never seem to hit the windscreen.

There was a minor earthquake yesterday.

It was quite enjoyable... a bit startling at first, though not unexpected, and a fun ride for the duration.

That night was delightfully sleepless.

The next day, however...  surveying the damage... everything has been turned upside down again.

This will take weeks to clean up... or months.

The price of living in Southern California.

Avalon Stickers

Stickers on Wrigley Road, Avalon, Catalina Island, California

Bubbly

Caffeine makes life bubble over with bubbly-ness.

Without caffeine I am sullen and serious and normal and boring.

With caffeine the shyness disappears, the quiet of my lips is shattered, and I wave to everyone down below as I hang from my soaring balloon.

Stayed up late last night to watch the Blood Moon (so-called) and this morning because of lack of sleep I decided to break my drug-free streak and get me some creamy sweet coffee going down my gullet and straight into my heart.

On a New Wagon

Remember in the Bible when David had been established in his kingship, and they recovered the Ark of the Covenant from the Philistines, and they were bringing it back it to Israel?

For me, it's always been too easy to say "why did they put it on a wagon?"   We know after the fact that the Ark was only to be carried by certain people, and using two long poles operated by four men.

As we know, it turned out pretty bad when "Uzzah thrust his hand out to the Ark of the true God and grabbed hold of it, for the cattle nearly upset it" and he died for disobediently touching the ark.

When doing Bible reading it can enhance the pleasure to "share the treasure" and here's something I found recently:

It's not such a crazy idea to use a wagon, because Jehovah accepted the use of wagons in transporting the items on the Tabernacle:

Of course, at that same time, they were specifically told this:

I always like to identify with "the bad guy" because then I can learn from his mistakes and endeavor to be "the good guy"