Monthly Archives: May, 2009

A Suntan on the Road to Freedom

My last day of work was last Friday, and I’m still getting chills over the decision.  I thought I would definitely mention this for those of you who would think that it would be the case, having some self-doubt after quitting a job.  Yup. Each morning this week I woke to the unpleasantness of the [...]

Discussion Notes May 26 – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Attachment Non-Attachment, Calmness, Experience not Philosophy, Original Buddhism, Beyond Consciousness, Buddha’s Enlightenment, Epilogue: Zen Mind

Many more apologizes for missing last week.  As I mention in the log that I had to rush to the East Coast of the US to see family after the loss of my uncle.  Ahhh, such is life.  It was very good to see everyone.  The biggest disappointment was not bringing my camera. This week [...]

Working on the New “Skillful Means” Template

Yesterday, I wrote a about creating a local development environment for WordPress on my local Vista laptop.  I had a feeling that this would be a much easier way to work on things like developing a new theme for my blog.   I am so glad that I did.   Having a local development environment allowed me [...]

Creating a WordPress Development Environment on Windows XP/Vista

I have decided to learn a bit more about the innards of my little wordpress blog.  I have an idea or two for widgets, and I definitely wanted to work on the template, all this and with little risk to my production installation (the wordpress blog site that you are currently reading this post on).   [...]

Freelancing and Cleaning up Skillful Means

I have decided to take the plunge and continue what I had done a year ago.  Life gave me an opportunity for a nine months period and I took it and learned much from it.  Now I have decided to take a different path.  Although the opportunity was wonderful, I was missing the ability to [...]

An improved swine map while I deal with my lag-de-jet

I have been a little tired, so I can’t really even find the energy to kick myself for missing a days post.  I suspect that there was little missing me, well maybe just a little missing me.  A buddy did send me a cool new swine-flu tracker map.  This one improved from the last improved [...]

Comin Home without a Camera

Friday morning I grabbed my convertible traveling backpack, the kind that allows you to stow the straps so you can carry it like a normal bag, opened the zipper, and started piling in the black clothes.  It has been a long time since I had to move so quickly to pack, well that’s not true, [...]

Discussion Notes May 12th – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind -Chapters: The Quality of Being, Naturalness, Emptiness, Readiness Mindfulness, Believing in Nothing

Family issues, server issues, life, and new change brings this log to you a little late.  Better late than never I say Tonight’s tie-dyed festivities brought to you by the following slaves to fashion: Dogen Coldstream, Danaeah Ballinger, Solari Georgia, stevenaia Michinaga, and me. Good times… good times… [17:56] : Solari Georgia sounds the friendship [...]

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