A Lesson To Learn
It's time to put the pieces
Where they all belong
Time to sort it into faces
Taken from the pool of life
Twisted, torn and mangled
We all have shapes and angles
By which we were born
But we bent the lines
Far too many times
And now we've lost the form
Straightened out, but tatered
We all know we're shattered
Just bend your mind a few more times
And it won't really matter
3/17/1982
One of my long-term goals in life is to live to 100. I don't mean a hooked to a respirator and feeding tube 100, but a happy and healthy until I pass peacefully in my sleep 100. Now those that knew me before about the mid-90's I know what you're thinking. Trust me, my life now is far different now. Heck, there was a time when even I seriously doubted I'd see 21. But that has now all long since past.
I've been pretty much of a fitness nut since about the mid-90's and started taking my cycling more seriously. The past few years have seen that wain a bit, but mostly because of my growing family commitments. There's only so much time in a day after all. But hopefully there are a lot of days left and that at some point I'll have more free time to do the things I want. But my goal of reaching 100 might just be too conservative now that I've learned of a woman in Brazil who is 125! Sign me up.
This is a public service announcement. If you plan on celebrating your birthday in public, you might want to read this first. So let me just say Happy Birthday to you! Oh, yeah…and don't forget to pay those royalties to the maroons at Time Warner!
Another amusing tidbit from Rob. Next time somebody asks a stupid question they could have easily looked up, just send them here. Hopefully they will get the message.
I've been a regular reader of User Friendly for the past couple of years and used to read Dilbert regularly. But it's just too much of a hassle to chase after a bunch of comics as I simply don't have the time. And now I don't have too, they come to me…a few weeks back I stumbled upon dailystrips, a Perl application that you can use to pull various comics to your site automatically on a daily basis via cron. I finally found the time to play with it and sent it up yesterday, thus I'm now pulling about a half-dozen comics to my site on a daily basis. Can't link to it, as access is restricted to just myself so as to keep the copyright fiends at bay. Zen.