~2pm

• Made the bed
• Resisted using cell phone
  • Imagined her flirting with me, offering to be...anything!
• Played Hara Hara Shankara on Butterscotch
  • Dispensation for image taking from Marine Park Kirtan on Fri 18 Oct 2020
• Imagined cell phone robot platform
  • Wheels
  • Plugs into Lightning/USB-C
    • 90+ degree open/close so cell phone is vertical
  • Battery
  • Wall plug
  • Mechanical grabbers
  • Allow others remote control robot platform through phone
    • Including phone camera, microphone, screen
• Created and ate Longan Honey Sumac Fruit Salad
  • With yogurt, organic raw walnuts, marcona almonds, pepitas
• Watched "Interception of the Year" after NFL notification on cell phone
  • "Jets safety Marcus Maye pinned the football against his back with one hand..."
• Went to Mac
  • To import Hara Hara Shankara photo
  • Allowed Parallels to run Windows from Boot Camp
    • Looked through Steam library
    • Doom Eternal has Vulkan error
  • Consolidated documents into Diary on mac In preparation for migrating all documents to Their Temple Blog...

Just now wrapping up the laundry and sending my friend home. She made wonderful mashed potatoes and grilled carrots, while I...burned the meat. Both the chicken and the steak. What a comedy of cooking errors!

The smoke from the charcoal briquettes in the chimney sent my neighbors into a tizzy! First the downstairs neighbor screaming, wondering if we had a fire. I spoke to her, and explained it was normal, and...a little smokey.

Then the upstairs neighbor came down, wondering if we were going to set the giant bush in the backyard on fire. I walked her through the house to the balcony, and showed her what we were doing.

She suggested using an air fryer.

I cooked the chicken first, thinking we were only going to have chicken, and then my friend really wanted the steak, so I threw the chicken in the oven to stay warm and put the steak on the grill. Sadly, I thought the low coals wouldn't be very hot, and so left it on for a while...the coals were very hot, and the steak was some of carbon, and a lot of very, very well done.

Then while cooking the steak, potatoes and carrots, the chicken overcooked as well.

Not my finest hour on the grill.

Then we ate, and intermittently through all the laundry, we chatted on the balcony and watched Arietty on my DVD drive. Apparently, the optical lens was quite dusty as it took many attempts before the DVD Player actually launched on Mac OS X.

All in all, the friend made the evening a wonderful success, in spite of the chaos.

A friend is coming over to use the washer/dryer, and we'll have a BBQ as well.

I had hoped to clean...well, I have done some cleaning...ish. I haven't finished any cleaning yet. Just little tidbits here and there. sigh

SHOP Drawing Course $12.90

EPISODE Bob's Burgers S5E8 Midday Run

10:19am + 33 minutes GAME Polytopia

11:28am EPISODE UFC 254

11:54pm EPISODE Hulu: American Gods S1E103 Head Full of Snow

MEAL 1000 cal

• Sour cream
• Yogurt
• Smoked salmon
• Capers
• Sundried Tomatoes
• Jerk-style Plantain Chips
• Glass of Cab

The day continues, with biking and kirtan and more...

2:20pm EXERCISE Bike from Cardiff to Marine Park

3:10 - 5pm DHARMA DUST Kirtan at Marine Park

Such sweet singing, a wonderful group, and Ganesha kept forming before my eyes as we sang Ganesha Blues.

5pm EXERCISE Bike from Marine Park to Cardiff

6pm Cooking

6:30pm Eating! MEAL 1000 cal

I made a lovely salad with tomato and carrot, and warmed up the Smoked Herring Tomato Bisque, then opened up the TJs Cabernet and Jerky Plantain Chips, and ate before Hanuman, Ganesha, and my guru Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

I always get a bit lonely when I leave the kirtan group, and the gurus were kind.

7:30pm EPISODE Hulu: American Gods S1E102 The Secret of Spoons

Yes, I actually paid for Starz on Amazon so I could watch the rest of American Gods...the first episode was juuuuust good enough. Let me know if you'd like a review!

GAME Battle of Polytopia - Massive 8 Crazy + me (Yaddak)

GAME :THE LONGING: ...just going to wander around and see if I find a replacement mattock after shattering mine on the crystal. sigh

EXPENSE $113.31

8am Woke up feeling good

Then drifted over to the computer, checking the blog...a strange little pride, there.

• EPISODE Hulu: Bob's Burgers S11E2 Worms of In-Rear-Ment

The worms playing classical music are quite cute.

• EPISODE Hulu: Bob's Burgers S5E7 Tina Tailor Soldier Spy

Writing this now, remembering... What pops into my head is meditating on the foyer window sofa, and Seeing the Other, who was Me. "I See You" we both said, and were, shining bright.

Walking to:

• MEAL S&W Country Diner $21 (on $17+ bill)
  • Vegetarian Eggs Benedict (spinach and jack cheese)
  • Over a pancake southwest style with ortega chiles and...something else...? (Sadly, the Doordash menu is incomplete and doesn't mention the pancake options)
  • Plus sliced red tomatoes
  • And a cup of decaf coffee (After the first and 1.5 refills, I was super-wired!)

Read four weeks of Sunday comics, that I had separated from all the many months of unread papers having accumulated in the foyer.

Overheard Adam behind me, a gentleman providing advice to his client...he is self-described as a spiritual business counselor. So wonderful!

It reminded me of my guru, and how my guru says everyone he meets is so complicated! I get it now! ~~And hope I can stay on the simple path.~~ I am: the simple path.

~~And~~ (What's with all the "and"s? ;-) I gave the leftovers to a gentleman on the street in a wheelchair. He had some challenges speaking, and I wondered if I should attend to him. He said he had a fork when I pointed out that the leftovers did not come with one.

• SHOP Trader Joe's 36 $64.07
  • Plantain Chips
  • Jerk-style Plantain Chips Since I cannot remember having had them before
  • Bronner's Soap (for laundry and dishes and cleaning...)
  • Organic Bran Flakes
  • Organic 2% Milk (a little fat for the brain)
  • Organic Basil
  • Organic Spring Mix
  • Organic Herb Mix
  • 2 Organic Bananas
  • Bag of Tangerines (reminded me of Cuties)
  • Organic Charles Shaw Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Fresh Wild Salmon
  • Goat's Milk Gruyere
  • Flowers for the Gods!

People were so beautiful! I talked to my cashier (Megan?), and we quickly came to God. My heart is warmed in remembrance.

• SHOP CVS 8879 $28.24 CVS originally stood for Consumer Value Store

  • 3 Scouring Pads
  • 2 rolls of toilet paper (for the guest bathroom)
  • Wet wipes (also for guests)
  • Epsom Salts (for the bath and the sore body)
  • Jug of vinegar (for rinsing laundry)
  • Nestle Chocolate Chip Morsels Called to buy, I suspect because of Halloween. Can I make my own morsels from dried fruit and cocoa powder? How to get the powder to stick to the fruit in the cookie dough?

~~And then~~ I walked home to Cardiff, stopping frequently as the two bags I had brought were quite heavy (from milk, wine, vinegar and epsom salts)

~~Then~~ I sat and read some more Sunday comics (5+) and I realized I was kind of forcing them into my eyeballs, wanting to "just finish them."

This seems to be the birth of "drive". "Just do it". "Get it done!" "Finish it!" Even when the rest of your being is like, "No, thank you, we're good", another part is just...pushing. Like Adam, perhaps? ;-)

Reminds me that people think they need pushing, just the right kind of pushing, yet the flow of being, the delicate tastes I have had so far, are the sweetest of nectars.

Love to You All, little web fishies who might swim through my words!