Now for something completely different.

I wonder what it would be like to be reported on, like the famous people?
Today, Andrew Chorny, do gooder helped an old lady across the street.
or Andrew Chorny concerned citizen... Ha ha, but more realistically, Andrew Chorny dead beat, only tipped 5% on his lunch bill.
You know to have people interested in what the day to day events of your life are!
Just a thought.

Controller

Yesturday was the first entry for my 'daily'. Err. Anyway, I wont bother explaining it any further. I want to include the Inc. mag. I picked up with it's article on Kevin Surace, and Serious Materials. Innoviative inspiring, and world changing! I'd love to build a house out of serious materials, fer sure! I also grabbed Money Sense, a Canadian rag. hope to put it to use in the New Year. Last night I watched Amelie, with an narration by Jean Pierre Jeunet. Amelie was nominated for 5 Academy Awards. So, it was pretty good. Now if I can pick up a DVD controller I can watch the movie without the added narration by Jean Pierre ! Oh yeah, I also recommend Invincible. A film by Werner Hertzog. A true story about Occultism in the Third Reich.

keep it simple.

My Grandmother was bairied today. It was the first time that I had seen my family together in along time. It was what I needed, and I'm glad for each one of them that I got to see. My grandmother would have been happy.

ToDo list 1.0

Avoid church as a compensation for a loss of family. I come from a broken home, my relatives are at odds with each other, and I lack their regular presence and 'grooming'. now that I think about it especially my fathers! I disagree with a lot that my father has said and done, and not done, but he was a very physical man, and expressed his love very warmly, with hugs, and affection, and I miss that. Nothing can compensate for that, and that loss will take time to be refilled.

So far.

Wednesday November 25 2009

This is my first photo blog. I took some shots today, as I walked around. I'm not perfectly clear on how often or when specifically I'll use this style of blogging, but I like it so far, and have an idea of how it should work to reflect me.
I leave for Orange County California tomorrow morn. I'm excited. 10 days, Sun sand, St.Anthony's monastery. Sounds good to me.
I'll be sure to keep you posted.

igoogle mode

back into google mode. maybe it's like a relationship that takes time, and needs to be revisited in time?

goodmorning

7:30 am , I got up! A nice change from previous days. Last night I watched a A&E DVD on the 'first 1000 years' of Christianity. really interesting, tonight, it will be the 'second 1000 years'. So, good morning have a great day.

Tower of Power

One day at a time, one rung at a time. That's how I feel. Take it step by step. Today, I stretched my wings, went to the Danforth had loukumades and coffee. Got my hair cut from Kyrios Kostas, (you know he mentioned that I should consider becoming a priest! I liked that thought.) After words, I felt moved to head out to the West end to Centenial Park to take care of my rec. center membership (It's important because it's vital to my day program!), and as fourtune would have it, spoke with Susan, who was leaving for vacation today & who happily renewed my health club membership (if I had'nt gone, I would have had to wait until later in Sept. and then with my particular policy, probably another 4-6 weeks! SO, it probably good that I went {*sarcasm}. After that I came home, and took apart the 'Tower of Power' enough to bring it in from the rain and the rust. Set it up in the home gym, and mees tinks it's in a gud place! Went to CAMH after that... I asked out a lovely Occupational Therapist! Who flatly rejected me : ) But.. I think she was flattered? If not a little nervous? She explained that I was still too close to a client for ethics sake. She was pretty, even when she's rejecting me! After that I took a walk down Spadina St. and I gotta say, there are some HOT young ladies in the Tdot WOOT! Oh yeah, but that's nothing cause, like I got on the Subway after all this and sat in a corner seat, wedged in by these two, beautiful if not complimentary to each other, and as my new habit of reading the Good Book, would have it, I opened it up to Songs of Songs. Now, I thought about passing this book by, saving it for... well, then I thought about how appropriate this wisdom was to this age, so fueled by lust and starved of love! And I wanted to share it. So, I began to read, quietly, and, I don't know whether it was coinsidence or the fact that we are so spiritualy bombarded all day, everyday, but after a short while, this extremely lovely young lady beside me, began to become, aggitated? Genuinely, beside herself. I thought she was going to jump out of her seat! As I read over these... INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL passages from scripture. I never felt anything like it. Really, it blows Annis Nin away! Anyway, that reminds me, to develop good habits, cause, they're just better experiences. So then I came home, worked out, took a nice bath, worked out my daily schedual, for good house keeping, and well here I am now. I wont go to Metamorphosis tomorrow, but might go to the gym?
Lots to do, and I'll try to publish more.
Until then, we'll just have to wait for the untold to unfold.
goodnight,

READINGS FROM THE BLESSED SABBATH

My dry Merlot.

Tonight was beautiful, the completion of the Akathist to the Theotokos. The 4 Stanzas and completion of the brief compline. After wards I headed to the Troubadour for dinner and a glass of wine. I enjoyed my day immensely.

St.john of the ladder.

It has been a very pleasant day. We celebrated Sunday of St.John of the Ladder. I felt very comfortable at Sts.Constantine and Helen, and saw for a moment, the Hierarchs enter into the Sanctuary.
It's raining now, i'll have lunch, and then make my way to Rob's, and see how I fair at Chess.

ping

Smoke city

Tan And See

looking to bat .276, tie it up with Cal.

Romans 8:18-31

Transfixed by beauty.

cried while watching K.K. Twice. Ok three times. It's not over yet.:)

brain: timing out!

PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The plan.

Alight, so I'll be up north this spring and summer, I'm psyched! I give up where I live now, and move on, it's been five years, and I'm ready for a change. I'll put together a flyer and post them around the neighborhoods, that I would like to live, outlining what I'm looking for and see what kind of results I get. I'd like to find a room, to rent, that was inexpensive and clean, and a little more neighborly than where I live now.
As for my education, my thoughts are this, to 'If it be GOD's will', get a certificate in, Diesel Engine Mechs. study computers and computer networking, then do, and apprenticeship in cable installation, and work towards being a renaissance builder. I really like Granton, and think that correspondence courses are the way of the future. So that I can work and learn that way? So keep that in mind. As for now, I'm totally in love with Christ, this time of the year is the best, and may GOD bless all his faithful children with the bright sadness, that accompanies Great Lent. I feel it, my brothers and sisters feel it, and I hope that you feel it too.
bye for now.

Isoflavones

Today, I was woken up by Camilia. I did'nt get to sleep till around 4am, so I was less that enthusiastic! After slowly getting myself together I made my way to the gym, it was a solid effort. 15 chin ups (a P.B.), then on to the back. Good focus on the deadlifts, & cable rows. Met Chris and Adam, jumped into their routine for a spell, and did some lat. pull downs, after wards on to one arm BD rows. All in all I was pleased with the results. Oh yeah, and the guys too. I picked up a three month supply of vitamins, that my mom sent from Que. so big thanks for that. I, ate, played the guitar, worked on my typing skills (set up time chart, created folders), developed a monthly budget chart in Google docs. a little M&F, and then dinner. Wow, what you can do with TVP, I had a full plate maybe 100 grams of TVP or more, that's roughly, 50gm of protein! cost = .25 cents. I can live with that. I then sat down and read a chapter in a book I have on diet and cancer. It explained how soy Isoflavones, are extremely valuable in fighting and preventing both breast and prostate cancer, So there it is. My Lent will still allow me to work on Weight lifting and muscle building. In yummy ways. So thats about it for tonight, it's time for my prayers, may our Lord forgive me for those people I forget to mention in them, please know that I love them
Mushy? Anyway, goodnight.

Things I'm Happy about II.

After a brief prayer, I want to say first of all, that the times that feel struck, the times I have thoughts that are insensitive, about peoples. Their misfortunes or sufferings. If inwardly I judge, or am critical. Tonight I found myself laughing at a little joke i was making about someone. I know, I know, we can laugh at ourselves, but it's because theres so much sensitivity i feel towards that person, and i can realize so many positive aspects, quickly, when i put my mind to it.
So, the things I'm interested in,
Machines, Computers, building / construction.
What about like, a CNS, Infomatics, with lean towards ecom. into a network cabling apprentice?
Or something like that?
Just, thinking.
And find out about, HDM. up in the reforestation sector?

Things I'm happy about.

Today I put together a list of the things that make me happy. A sort of reminder of all the things that I'm grateful for. It was really helpful, I mean that right away, I saw things that make me feel good, good as in hopeful. The list included things that I'm interested in. The creativity was flowing, as the list began to grow.
It looks right, something in the world to work with to follow, to refine.
now if I can just figure out what league of cricket it is I'm supposed to be following!?

my cal.

An interview with David Suzuki.

Nice interview, from the WWFAustralia, I think the interviewer really wanted David to give him a hug? If you know me, I'm really cautious of 'personality cults', in any sphere. And the environmental movement is no exception! Being Canadian I grwe up watching Mr.Suzuki and in fact my brother went to school with his children. That said, he defends, what would be considered to any intelligent life force as common sense, consumption! don't consume so much. I believe it's sin that drives us to consumption, we get hurt angry, scared, we reach for comfort, which is natural, but, it turns so quickly to seeking to control vice! Which is incontestably, an unsatisfiable hunger. I think of the Desert Fathers, Pachomius of Thebaid, St.Anthony the Great, that there journeys (if I may so boldly venture) into the Deserts, really speak to this issue in two very converse ways, firstly: that, a life that is led by sin, leads incontestably to, a scorched barren earth. secondly: that, the opposite holds true, and even in a DESERT, a life lead by Grace is, more fertile and abundant than all of what David Suzuki and every other scientist, ever has observed, (or imagined for that matter!!) anywhere, in History. I do believe, its as simple as that, and that their voices echo clearer now, than any other time in History. Amen.
Now, on a lighter note, apparently their is 9 piles of fresh puppy poop, somewhere ready to be picked up!
Here's the vid. more on Suzuki later!

Comedy Hero!

I recently read (read:audio book), 'I Am America and So can You!', and decided that Stephen Colbert was one of my hero's. Having never seen the 'Colbert Report', myself, The beginning of this, [A Conversation With Stephen Colbert At Harvard's Institute of Politics], was new to me, and... although I still haven't seen the 'Colbert Report' myself, He clearly has, "a shameless need to be right, regardless of the facts".

The Green Barn.

A terrific example of inner city development and urban farming.

The Stop's Green Barn, check it out.

For the fam.

I dedicate this particular video to, my brother. I hope that he gets a good laugh out of this : )

Manufacturing Consent

Ubiquitous web/SMIL?

What are the relative connections between Mozilla's Ubiquity/Mashups in general/SMIL? And what can I learn from this?

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.