The Exploits of a TurboGeek!

I found a secret today.  I was poring through some old emails, and I found a bunch that I had mysteriously written to myself.  Of course, this isn’t so strange for me.  Sometimes, when I need to remember something, I’ll send myself an email about it.  I lose papers.  My waschtrockner (which now only wasches) or my dryer eats them, or I write other stuff on them, and put them down and never see them again.

Email is searchable, and it is also pretty secure, since it lives in my computer.  I actually have, archived, almost every email I’ve ever sent or received, dating back to college.

Someday, my kids are going to find all this crap and use it as justification for having me put into a home, but for now, it is just good stuff.  Good conversations, and reminders of great times past.   It is heartening, actually, to read old emails and see the advice I had been given, or gave myself.  Better still, is the experience of reading about a significant event that is sufficiently in my past that the finer details have faded, but the outcome still generally available in my memory.

It is in those times, that insight can be found.  Reading this old email, it was almost as if everything I read had happened to someone else, and I was just a spectator.  I got to witness everything from the active perspective of a participant in the moment, yet I knew from experience that everything was not as it appeared, and nothing was going to turn out as expected.

There I found a secret which I had since forgotten, and now am proud to remember…

“…So, I don’t have much free time.  I figure the best thing to do is let you in on a little secret.  Ready?  Jello can be formed into the shape of a key, frozen and then used to pick locks.”

WTF?  Did I make that up myself or did I read it somewhere?  I almost don’t even want to know.

So, where have I been?

Well, reading the last post, I’ve been drinking a bit.  Actually I’ve been in a bit of a good routine.  So far, for the last 5 weeks, I’ve managed to have 3 major work-outs every week.  Run an hour, swim an hour, bike for about 2-3 hours.  I’ve also been lifting weights, and trying to trim a few pounds.  So far, so good.  I feel very good, and I’ve even found time to go out and have some fun…  Again, see below

Tomorrow, I depart for Riga, Latvia.  I’m going there just for the heck of it, with some friends from work.  I had read about Riga while on the plane back from Pisa, with my family, and decided to go.  Some friends agreed, and we’re on our way.

I bought a new phone, which arrived today.  It has a built in GPS, which should be useful on this trip.  I’ll let you know how that goes.  It already wins points since it talks to my car, which is the one thing my last phone wouldn’t do (well, the main thing, actually).  So far, I like it.  The only issue is that it is a bit hefty, and that is saying a lot

Lets see.  Well, I mentioned the Lindy Bomb.  In brief detail, I managed to get 3 other dancers to join me in Heidelberg that week, and found that the bar where we danced had gone bankrupt.  Puzzling over this turn of events, several other dancers (all follows, all German) arrived, and we decided to try another bar, where we had danced in the past.  While we had some pizza there, the long standing Salsa instructor, who should have already been there, called.  He canceled all future Salsa classes.  10 seconds later, we had a new permanent home.  That was possibly the most successful Lindy Bomb I’ve heard of

There was a great Toga party, where I got to chop some wood, build a fire and beat everyone at Risk.  They were mostly drunk (the players, not the logs)…

I have some pictures from that, but not ready at the moment.  Keep pestering me.  I have one good shot of my friend throwing a cup of rum on the fire   Guess who’s idea that was!

Yesterday I succeeded at duplicating an effort that I read about online.  My car now knows where all of the stationary Safety (speed trap) cameras in Germany are, and she should warn me if ever I approach one   That was a bit of fun hacking a DVD and following a slew of online tips…

I guess that is all for now.  I won’t promise to write more soon, because it is summer, and I am hoping to be out of the house a lot   I will try to be in touch more, either via text or some other means.  I hope you are all well, and I will write more when I can!

So, It’s been awhile.

Yeah, I went out drinking a bi t .  I was the DD, until we got near hmy place, then I left m y car in dtown,a nad now I”m savffely home via taxi.

It has bbbbben  A bit.  IN the bpast few weeks, I’ve don not mush more thand to work out a whoe l bunch, and tho dannce a bit.  So ya far, I”ve been dancing moslty 2x a week,a nd working out a ful trialthn evry weekk,.

1 night wile dancind, we have d ha full Lindy Bomb! It is even in WEikipedddddia!

Thist is a full mess.  Well, I”m going to bed!