Online Western Journal

[Mok]

Wow cenny, you and I share a birthday!

We also share a birthday with Saddam Hussein, ex-president James Monroe, Harper Lee, Karl Kraus, Jay Leno, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Ann Margaret, Edward IV, and Andrew Jackson (Smith).

Of course, our birth date is also the death date of quite a few individuals, most notably William E. Colby (director of CIA 73-76),  "Festus" from Gunsmoke (Ken Curtis), and Anton Pancake - who was some kind of astronomer and Marxist.  

Happy Birthday, us!

http://www.anydayinhistory.com/

[cenacle]

may 20, 2005
3:34 pm
expedia
seattle, washington

first time i've written from this job, strange to be doing so, about to get on a plane with KD to fly to the midwest to meet her family...i don't like planes, and i've had bad luck meeting lover's kin before, but none of that will slow me from going...four days off from work, a month here, finally a paycheck for it in mailbox tonight i believe...

job is dull but stressful in a bureaucratic get it right kind of way...at least i have an office space to myself, no cublicles here! heh...and i work at it steady and find that i have minutes here and there to read the news, or send an email, or post a poem, mostly though it's a full day and tired when done...

thinking of many things that a steady paycheck allows, mostly of traveling on weekends around the northwest and going to burning man, the oregon country fair, the portland zine fest, all for bringing books and magazines published by my scriptor press...there must be some way to connect with the deep counter culture of the west coast...have to get out there and let a yell off...hehe...

[judih]

almost sounds like another world - office, planes, paychecks.

A linear bridge over chaotic waves.
what will be waiting on the other side?

walked so far, been so long coming,
you're up for this and more

[cenacle]

may 21, 2005
10:06 a.m.
seattle-tacoma airport
seattle, washington

on our way to denver airport, bound for meeting KD's kinfolk, and her brother's high school graduation...sea-tac airport is pretty of shiny shops, including a borders, i went in and said hello to ex-colleagues, strange to be in a borders first time since leaving their employ...

nothing deep to say this morning, first entry in the travel journal that involves actual travel, heh...i'm not wild about planes, but first time having a companion on one, and an excellent one...

airports, eh

12:05 p.m.
portland airport
portland, oregon

short flight on small plane, bumpity bumpity, KD was watching the propellers and and looking at me with big blue eyes, hehe...i haven't been to this airport before, but was happy to see the MAX light rail that runs to portland, not seen in since 2002, memories can be tapped and light up from all many of things, it seems...the next plane will be a larger size, this last one was called a 'bombadier'...didn't fly very high, the green green of oregon lovely visible most of the time...getting there....

[cenacle]

june 6, 2005
12:00 p.m.
work
seattle, washington

the days lately have been run through with dramas...getting KD through her last quarter of school year, many papers, lots of editing help needed, finished finally and all good...like being back in college in a way, but better...this summer she takes a class that culminates in a forest retreat...that could be a lot of fun...

work goes alright, pressures of a corporate environment, monetary rewards of one too...i just trudge through day and make most of nights and weekends...

burning man 2005 draws near, readying new books, editing stage right now...applied for grant money from a new BM funding group called BORG2...waiting on that...selection process done by vote...strange, but i think good way to do it...

back to the wheel  

[cenacle]

june 28, 2005
2:54 p.m.
work
seattle, washington

well, all that chasing after funding money did not yield very much, though i have made many more acqaintances along the way than usual and our bookstore will have a higher profile this year, even to the possibility of collaborating with the live performers in center camp...meanwhile, the work of editing the new books goes on, and will for awhile...

kd and i are looking to get married twice in the fall, once in her family's town in the midwest, once in my family's town in the east...once catholic wedding for her kin, one civil one for mine...i think they all will appreciate this more than we really do, since we live married already and have for a long while...and children? hm, not for awhile...that fundamental shift in life's reality, not yet...

my contract job is going to go full-time, it's been posted, i am in the process of applying for it, and don't know if it will be easy to obtain or not...i'm hopeful, no choice but to be, that a very hard job with a long period of training for it will not go to someone else who would have to start at the beginning, where i did two months ago...hopeful, but the world is a strange place...moments of angel and demon...

i suppose that's all for now, nothing profound here...prosaic news, perhaps something greater next time...

[judih]

getting married, applying for a job, possibility of children.

hmmm.

sounds like a turning point to me.
Out of the ordinary comes the extraordinary.

best to you -

ju

[cenacle]

july 4, 2005
1:02 a.m.
some budget hotel
boise, idaho

kd and i fetched her car from her family's home in the midwest, drove 900 miles today to get this far, passed brush fires, some kind of creepy disney-like resort in the middle of the sticks called little america that advertised about 400 miles before you get to it, a lavender gorgeous sunset and, lost in boise, a mcdonald's drive-thru run by a lunatic boy announcing to each customer his lawsuit against mcdonald's...he's got lawyers...heh...anyway, free wi-fi at this budget hotel, so why not post something here for a laugh...heh...lotta miles to go...happy 4th

[JRL]

Little America, truck stop as tourist attraction. I miss the road.........

[senorsalvia]

:lol: ---  That guy (lunatic at Mickey D's)  sounds like my kinda folks :wink: ---------  Have a great journey Ray---------- senorsal

[cenacle]

august 3, 2005
4:29 p.m.
home
seattle, washington

this morning i was told that i'd been laid off, not for any reason of competence but more from the tangled and fucked-up corporate world in which i'd found myself deeply lost and financially dependent...so now jobless but i do not have to go back to that sick puppy place...how life grants gifts roughly...and on we go...

[cenacle]

august 9, 2005
12:29 p.m.
home
seattle, washington

near a week since i was tossed out and i've been jobhunting with no success yet...it's hard as fuck to do this, to not know what this time, will it be better, worse, how long will it take? losing a job stops your dead in your path...nothing proceeds as it was...

so put the best energy to it and keep along this hard run...no choice, society little tolerates the man with empty pockets...and i have a woman who believes in me that i simply cannot let down...

if only for those reasons keep along...also i think some self-confidence to restore...

[judih]

yeah. Crank up the confidence. Remember that job - you were compromising your ideals for the corporate paycheck. Nice, pleasant, but how long can a poet ignore the poet within in order to blend with the beige furniture?

Something better, more interesting, more 'you' will come along.

for sure.

j

[cenacle]

august 10, 2005
7:20 a.m.
seattle public library-downtown
seattle, washington

yesterday i was at my favorite punkdive coffeehouse in seattle, using their free wi-fi to jobhunt on KD's laptap, when i got a message about a job...contract editing gig, a good one if i can haul it in...i have a screening today at the job agency that called me, and then an interview if that goes well...so off with the gruffy look and on with the tie...

if i score it i will have to scale back the number of days at burning man this year, but we will still go, and we'll have an income to return to...hope comes and goes, it seems...i'm going to do all i can to get this position and back on horse better this time...wish me well...

2:37 p.m.
seattle public library
seattle, washington

job screening with job agency went ok, no actual interview set up yet though...and a call from another place with another job possibility...on it goes...writing from library like old jobless days...hehe...and my hour 'net time is done

[cenacle]

august 11, 2005
4:52 p.m.
elliott bay books
seattle, washington

i've been hired for a tech writer contract, two month job, might go longer, starting a week from monday...GREAT FUCKING LUCK

our trip to BM will have to be shorter in order to accomodate the new job but it should work out OK, they said no problem...

never come here with laptop before, pretty cool that this city is so hooked up to wireless net...and i'll be working at a system involved with wireless communications...eh  :twisted: