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7.1.11 2011 HALFWAY MARK! As the 1st half of the year comes to a close, I've maneuvered n' adjusted a lotta pieces in my checkers match vs life, Some of mine got gobbled, but I gobbled right back. With the 2nd half of the year looming, I'll have new challenges to take on & a fantastic chinese congregation to support, n' a fun ride in the process in site. Hmm what IS my next move. (Shot taken @ B St in Hayward; LOVE the park checkerboard setup :D)
& Props to everyone on 365 & the rest of the SLR folks once again for representing. My personal favorite? Larlene Ramos B-). ♥ her 365 it's the best in my opinion.
"Building a bar may seem like a trivial way to shift gears....[but] an enormous percentage, by their own admission, have no desire to shift gears..."
Please, dear reader, don't become a withered flower, with you life spent and all but over by your mid-30s...build that subterranean bar and become a lonely basement alcoholic!
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From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.
So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.
A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.