11/14/12

peaceful moment over math....believe it or not.

11/12/12

Zinfandel on a Monday night while Martha is with the ladies from work.  Extravagant maybe.

11/11/12

Hung this in honor of my decease father in law for Veterans' Day.  Coast Guard.

11/10/12

Trying out  Hard Days Night.

11/9/12

Hard to keep up with life daily.   I need to work on my constancy and mindful attention.  No picture today.
Interest week.   Mr. O won and the reactionaries are plunging into a depression.  
Sleep has been only so so this week.  I'm drinking too much.     Work is good but boring.  Trying to update my practice;   google calendar,   ipad etc.

11/06/12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE



election day 2012

11/05/12

Back to low carb.  Cheated a little today at work.  Steve brought in Halloween candy.  Damn him!

11/4/12

Creative destruction!   Halloween is over.

11/03/12

All dressed up for Marin Kirshner's bat mitzvah.  A very rare occasion in the Brinson family.



Later at Grimey's.....

Paul and the Waco's rock the house.  Took Connie along.  We found a cd from the Menahan Street Band.  The street was named after Papa's mother's family.  Had to buy it.  It's also Adam's middle name.

11/02/12

another lunch at Subway,  almost no carbs though.

10/31/12

Happy Halloween.  The ghouls are out.

10/30/12

Driving back home.

10/28/22

Missed posting yesterday.  It was our anniversary .    Maybe that led to bad luck and this is why this happened today in front of my house. No big deal. At least it wasn't totaled and the guy has insurance.

On the positive side,  reading   Townshend's auto bio.  Pretty good. Martha gave it to me for our 22nd.

10/26/12

10/25/12

Pissed with myself that I didn't pull it together to see Mike Watt last night.  I bet it was great and would have pulled me out of my downer mood.

10/24/12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WTc36G6FwCA

Seeing the master of bass tonight.  Mike Watt is one of my few heroes.  Not just as a musician but also as a human being.   'Be like Mike (Watt)' is as good a personal code as any.

Asked Kenny B to join me but I would be happy to go alone with my fellow  Watt-age fans.  Hope I can stay up enough to see the show and actually sleep tonight.  I'm thinking of getting earplugs so that I don't have a lot of ringing in my ears.

Got up at 620 or so this morning,  took care of the usual, coffee, breakfast and school lunches.  Worked out and came home, showered, coffee and cheesecake.   Took Martha's car to the shop for engine light and to change oil.  Hope it won't cost too much.

10/23/12

I'm doing this 365 project to increase/cultivate my own paying attention to daily life.  Still find that I fall into rut autopilot.  Am really trying to be more mindful with self and clients.  Clients do seem to like it.
Woke up this morning around 620,  as Martha got up to shower.  I fixed lunch, breakfast and coffee then went to Y to run.  Back,  showered,  drank my own coffee,  read paper and off to work.  Monday was fairly busy,  7 clients, and today looks to be the same.  I do have a no show right now.  Reminds me I have to do some call backs.
Cheers.  Thought I would include this cool pic of my cool kid.

10/22/12

Slept ok,  Martha apologized for being 'a bitch' last night.  I could have been sweeter but do think she was kind of being bitchy about noise in the house.  But I probably should have been much more understanding and less reactive than I was.

10/21/12

Good nights sleep last night.  Went with M to shop for some new cool boots for her. This was an anniversary gift.  Our 22nd.  Coming up next Saturday.  Not sure what we are doing that day or night.   Also bought a bat mitzvah gift for my friend Mike Kirshner's daughter,  Marin.   An 'M' pendant from Tiffany's.  A little pricey, but Mike is a good friend and a good busienss referral if I'm honest.  So worth it.  And besides he will appreciate the Tiffany tag.

It's another beautiful October fall day.  I am grilling flat iron steaks on the grill.  Goes well with the wine.  Martha cooked up some greens and biscuits for the kids.  Back to low card after some cheating the past few days. Have to stay slim enough for this suit M got me to wear at the bat mitzvah in a couple of weeks.  Cheers.

10/20/12

It's been Camille day.  After working out went with Camille to early vote;  split my ticket between  dems and greens;  then we went to retrieve soccer ball from Martha at thrift store;  then on to Sevier Park field to kick around the ball;  then grabbed Adam and got some slices at Perfect Pizza and now we are working on her Pumpkin Globe/Champlain route project.

10/19/12

Quantitative:  up at 630,  shower,  dressed,  coffee,  poptarts,  no lunch, kids will have to buy their own today.     3 clients this morning,   two more to go this afternoon, listening to Elliot Smith on Spotify.  Slept ok last night.  Watched  In Time on free cable last night.  Pretty good,  Dreamed about it.   A Marxist tale.

10/18/12

Quantitative:  woke up 615 or so,  made coffee, lunches and gave out pop tarts for breakfast;  drove car pool,  ran three miles at Y;  listened to NYTimes book podcast, they interviewed the author of The Giver, she has a new book out, last in that series I understand; and they talked about a new book on the history of cyber hacking and whistle blowing;  The Times think that some secrets need protecting, figures. Today is DBT group night;  hope all our folks make it.

Qualitative:  Camille drew this picture for her OWL (sex ed) class;  makes us seem like a happy family,  hope we can live up to her expectations.  Sent this to Dad.   I would have sent it to Mom but she probably doesn't know how to work her phone to see picture text.

10/17/12

Q: woke up about 620;  made coffee, breakfast and lunch for kids;  drove carpool,  worked out,  home, showered and off to the office.    At a gyro for lunch, with bread,  now sitting in office writing this.   1pm cancelled as did my 4pm (not to upset about that one).  Picture is pretty random from when Roberts' were here.  Cecile, Camille and Adam eating dinner.

10/16/12

Q: again slept badly;  got up,  showered,  quickly made lunch, breakfast and coffee;  realized on the way to work that my first session wasn't until 9am,  annoyed, could of worked out this morning;

N: check out this cool pic of Camille,  practicing.  Her guitar teacher suggests she do this more often :)

10/15/12

Q: slept poorly; got up made coffee breakfast and lunch for the kids; drove car pool and then workout; came home and said goodbye to Lynn Doug and Cecile; went to work and slept during lunch;came home starving and unfortunately relapsed on carbs: nan and brownies. I'll be better tomorrow.

10/15/12

Q: slept poorly; made coffee; breakfast and lunch for kids; drove carpool; workout; back home to say goodbye to Roberts; work was OK but.took nap at lunch.

10/14/12

Q: woke up around 815,  feeling a little sick to my stomach;  made coffee;  Doug was already up;  strange dog was still prowling and barking;  runs off every time you approach;  waiting to go to breakfast;  got a pic of Doug proving he was actually here;  went to Southern Festival of Books,  saw Tony Horowitz speak about new book on John Brown,  sounds good; later went to Asian  Market.


N: good breakfast,  carb feast at Turnip Truck;  little pricey and the check out lady seemed a little put out; saw a guy at the Festival that I know I've interacted with but can't remember where,  driving me crazy!

Q:  woke up late,   830 or so;  had to quickly get going to get  Camille to 920 soccer game;   Red team today,  White blew us away but Camille played hard;  mowed front yard;  fixed three egg omelet (photo);  and noodles with  beef jerky for Camille;

N: 

10/12/12

Q:  up around 640;  rained all night,  slept only so so,  weird dreams—family,  water, boats,  old crush,  Martha….showered,  made coffee;  rainy day;   Martha made me tuna salad for lunch,  I sprinkled sun flower seeds on it,  not bad

N:  Good Friday,  8 clients,  sometimes you feel like you’re helping and sometimes not,  today was a good day for helping. Swung by wine store, twice, once for our supply and once for dinner tonight. (photo)  Brought Thai to the Burches,  Ally couldn’t make it,  Mike’s in the hospital getting a bowel resection, sad because he seemed to be doing so well last week;   food was good,  ate some carbs,   Meg complained about her job as usual but seems happy with it all the same.  Lyn, Doug and Cecile coming to visit tomorrow.

10/11/12

Q:  up round 7, slept in;  showered, dressed,  fixed coffee;  made Camille pancakes.  First client called to cancel because she’s sick.  Nice break.    Lyn says she, Doug and Cecile are coming up this Saturday.; 4 clients and 5 group members

N:  It’s International Day of The Girl; Gave Man’s Search for Meaning to a client to read this week;  hope it will help him reassess his existential issues;  while snooping in Adam’s cell phone I saw that he turned down an invite by his lady friend to go skating and that he blamed it on an obligation to the family;  gently confronted him about this while also apologizing for snooping;  he said he didn’t want to skate, encouraged him to find a way to spend more time with his friend;  don’t know if it sunk in or not

10/10/12

Q:  woke up again around 630;  made coffee; went for interval workout at the Y;  bought gas with cash  3.62 per  gallon;  watched a Mike Watt youtube bass lesson,  love that guy (photo);  7 clients; watched a lot of Watt videos today….get milk on way home.  Also get eggs.   Had to get rid of dead possum when I got home.  Felt cranky about it.  Downloaded  logmein.com.   Seemed cool but don’t know how useful it will be.

N:   Lucy texted me that Dad was admitted to hospital for irregular heart beat;  freaked out a little, just talked to him yesterday and he sounded great;  later he was sent home and will get more tests tomorrow.  Wonder how mom is handling it, maybe she will step up to plate,  blessing in disguise?  

10/9/12

Q:  up just before 630,  made coffee for M and went to Y to run intervals;  came home,  showered,  made Camille eggs and me an omelet;   Peer Support meeting in Steve’s office: attending  Carol, Sarah, Steve G,  Steve D and myself. ; 4 clients

N:  Good day, drank too much,  went to bed early and slept fairly well,   Lyn messaged me about her and Cecile coming up possibly this weekend.  Hope they do.  But with L it’s always up in the air until it actually happen;   talked with Dad, talked about my check up and his,  he’s very happy we are planning to come down for Thanksgiving;  he asks that I call mom more,  said I would,  wish she would make a decision to live  “get busy living or get busy dying”

10/8/12

Q: ‘woke up,  got out of bed, dragged the comb across my head’  about 633am.  No school so no breakfast and lunch for kids, just coffee for  M and me.  Hate Monday mornings but try and push through it;  lunch at subway, digging the low carb chop salad, double tuna;  reading  Frankl’s  Man Search for Meaning over lunch (photo);  7 clients;  in bed to read by 930 or so;   reading 2312.

N: continue to have difficulty not being easily distracted;  as I read Frankl I realize I should never complain about anything ever again; 3 glasses of wine, watched a bad zombie movie, after Martha took me to buy a new ‘smart’ suite; actually think it looks good;  need to stay on low carb thing though if I want it to continue to fit.

10/7/12

Q:  slept fairly well in tent thanks to Martha giving me the air mattress;  cold morning;  fixed breakfast for D’s and their friend J;  bacon, eggs and hot chocolate for Camille and M;  got out of camp by 930 or so;  stopped by George’s Hole on the way out of Fall Creek Falls;  learned how to fix spaghetti squash;  mixed with sausage and spaghetti sauce; not bad;  drank some Zinfandel that was left over from last night; spied Joe Pantalone, the actor, at  The Turnip Truck when we went to see Meg at work and get some lunch  (photo);  missed Shins show waiting for Adam to get home from Orlando band  trip;  Martha went though;  reading 2313 & Wildwood.

N: camping trip was better than expected;  fun with M;  C had a great time;  Mark D. is odd;  M thinks he and Jennifer have some sort of thing going; feel bad for Cindy;   mood was up and down;  Martha helped with putting up tents;  want to get back on low/no carb but snuck some flat bread after dinner;  bad boy;   want to see The Shins tonight but Adam is coming home on bus from band trip around 8;  might screw up plans;  maybe Martha can see the whole show;  someone has to, hate to waste the tickets;  ScM—very nice;  while waiting for Adam tried to figure out Instagram and Dropbox—took  a cute pic of Camille (photo).