Well the Parzival is finished. Next up: Tristan. I am taking a short
detour into Alan Watts' "Psychotherapy East and West". It is a small
book, less than 200 pages, but very dense. In my next life I want to
be a guru and stroke the egos of the middle class for pay. That is got
to be as close as we can get here to free money. Maybe that's what the
singularity is. Unfortunately in this life I have no charisma so have
to make more painful arrangements.
Today we have tornado weather. This is something you hardly notice
when you have a ten minute commute. Mine is a little longer than that
so it's a good thing I have a riveting book for my ride home. 9 rides
home and 8 rides in remain for me in commuter purgatory. And then life
can begin again. Maybe I'll join a Fight Club. If I do I won't be
talking about it.
This morning I had a great dream about taking my Dad to see his new
memorial marker. When it was happening in dreamland this made perfect
sense. Death is the smallest of obstacles in the dream universe. The
marker did not look anything like what I picked out at the granite
company. It was more like weather beaten tin about to fall apart, and
the name and dates were upside down. Sure Freud could get about 180
dollars worth of interpretation on that little observation. Thanks to
the big model railroader in the sky however I have been cured of
needing psychotherapy. Now I just meditate and it may not be any more
effective but it damn sure is a lot cheaper. My health insurance pool
is jolly grateful too if only they knew how diligently I toil to keep
our costs down.
It is like a tomb of silence in my office right now. Half of the floor
has already moved out to the new building. Next week will be bedlam as
everybody shoves their **** into boxes. For me it won't be a big deal
at all as I have only been here for eight months. It feels like I have
spent eight years sitting on the freeway looking at the brake lights
of the million cars ahead of us. The Karawanka paradise has been paved
and now we have a parking lot, no cannibals.
Bukvich
