tick tock...

and so it goes... the ball is falling soon in Indonesia, and all I got to see was a bunch of cows and goats sacrificed (Idul Adha). I'll try to post photos later. Or maybe not...

time flies... one way or another

364 down.
2006 was amazing, crazy, difficult, fun, challenging, blessing, eye-opening, painful, hopeful, inspiring and life-giving.

BUT WHERE DID IT GO???

apples win

with a stunning count of ZERO votes (actually 2 people wrote in, and 2 others told me face to face, with only one voting against: APPLE 3.5 over PC 1.5
should arrive in about 2 weeks so i can start typing from bed again...

Merry CHRISTmas from Aceh!!!

Don't sweat the holidays unless you live on the equator

If you had to pick a new computer...???

Please vote:
1) Apple (Mac)
or
2) PC (with recommendation of Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, etc...)

and 3) include reasons!

I want to see who will win (and because I need a new computer now it will determine what I select!!! So you're making a difference people!!!)

Butterflies, Snakes & SCorpions

and so it came to pass that I became one with nature:
butterflies landing on my shoulder;
pythons draped around my neck, gently squeezing;
scorpions walking up and down my arm

AWESOME!

My world is messed up

1. Here it's ok to kill orangutangs and destroy rainforests
2. Here it's ok to be obviously/possibly hypocritical about fundamental religion.
3. Here it's ok to take kids away from their parents and call them orphans.

(click on each item to go to the story. But I'm not making this stuff up)

going... going...

Fading fast,
never early but never last.
Inscruatble, undefinable, day and hour unknown.
Forgotten son,
only loss not yet won.
Memories faded of times once counted joy,
times before I no longer was a little boy,
a time when I could play - could proudly possess a toy.
Conscience in a nightmare world,
Asleep in the reality that I am not yet.
Honored by unseen faces and unspoken voices.
Rainbows pitched in darkness,
the moon points to me -
all I hear is noise.
Blackness.
Pain.
Wild abandon.
Nothing and nowhere,
drowned in the mud.
Gravel my oxygen.
Grasping dreams,
yielding nothing at last.
Only in last seconds do I realize life was worth fighting for.

Gone.

FOLLOW ME (reprise)

I see you still... waiting; afraid to step onto this road I journey on. Hand in hand, together it will be ours and not mine. I will go where you go too, but we shall never be still. The adventure will always lead to open doors - are you not excited about the closed ones we hide behind for the night, though?
Prayers will be unceasing, as answers yield more questions - the velocity hurtling toward light but our passion and joy overshadowing time itself. Hide not from me, for I long to be with you, long to hear your voice of love, your song, to see you smile and hold your hand - never letting go.
There is nothing we cannot do, no mountain too high, no valley too low. Sharing in grief and exalting in our joy, our fears defended by the other, our goals higher to the heavens themselves.
I see you still... but will not - cannot - stop. my heart waits but time and distance are unable to be bridged. My hand is here waiting for yours; take it, my love, please, I beg of you, before it's just too late.
I see you...

Funny things (continued)

Do I really need to say why THIS is funny??? :-)

I didn't realize surfers were always this close to their boards...
If you look carefully, the guy 2nd from the left is sticking his tongue out at me:

This doesn't answer how many of him there actually are, but it tries to:
Who's driving?
One day I'll make American Idol doing this!
Why, yes, it IS a really big fish... thank you...
I'll bet a dozen pigs feet...