Pic of the day:  Migrant Mother, By Dorothea Lange ________________________ Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism. … Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories … human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon—which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least. Douglas Hofstadter, [...]

Once a month or so, I clear out some of the content on my Running Commentary, Random Thoughts, and 12 Notes pages and place them here on the main page to make room for fresh content on those pages.  This is the content from October 2011′s Random Thoughts.  Enjoy! _____________________________ Oct 1st:  October baseball is [...]

Once a month or so, I clear out some of the content on my Running Commentary, Random Thoughts, and 12 Notes pages and place them here on the main page to make room for fresh content on those pages.  This is the content from September 2011′s Random Thoughts.  Enjoy! ______________________________ Sept 1st: Man, it was busy [...]

And all of a sudden, it’s over. __________________________ The job is done.  Finished.  Over.  I went back and worked at the assignment I thought I had finished at the beginning of August, and it lasted until the beginning of September.  Worked a few additional weeks, busted my ass something fierce, went from being an art [...]

From the Unemployment line to barely employed.  Better than nothing, but not by much. Back to the grind tomorrow.  Not that I mind grinding, not this type of grinding anyway.  It doesn’t pay enough, but I have little choice.  I want to work, and temping again at Brunschwig and Fils is better than nothing, and it fills [...]