Fresh start

I feel great! What a feeling to start a new week. The last couple days were so relaxing; I did some house chores. Practiced some zen habits. Ran for 30 minutes; sprained my scalf muscle, but it feels much better now. It's improving if I start paying attention to what I'm doing.

I got up at 4:00 am to run for 30 minutes. The morning air was so refreshing; I am going to do this more often. I sprained my scalf muscle. I am limping around the house all day because of the pain.

It's Saturday

Every else they would say it's Friday! But here where I live, we work from Tuesday to Saturday ; off on Sunday and Monday. So it is naturally we're excited when Saturday comes around, marking the end of a work week; and beginning a weekend ahead. I'm not planning on any special event this weekend. Maybe I'll take my kids to the beach in our back yard. Just relax with my family. Ahh.... What a life!

Fun with wiring

Oh, this is fun. I spent some time in the rf box this morning, just poking about the 11M wiring cabinet, getting a sense of how the switch 89 readback is wired and what wire need to be added to the newly installed Allen-Bradley chassis. The clarity is such a treat after some mind boggling time trying to figure out why somebody would want to route those wires in a maze-like fashion to achieve the end result of connecting 2 points.

Vick, a brilliant field engineer who has contributed his significant engineering skills to the wiring of the Allen-Bradley chassis, will help me to add the extra wire to the chassis; he has already pointed out the missing return wire I overlooked.

A new commitment

My new commitment: write an entry in this blog everyday for a month without skipping a day.

This is to test my patience. Can I do it? Will I be able to find an interesting topic to talk about everyday for a month? I don't know. I have not tried it yet. In the past I have started a few blog site, but never looked back to do the writing. This time should be different. I should force myself to continue once a day. For some people it seems so easy for them to use words to express their thought and feeling. For me it's not that easy. But I'm not sitting here to complain about myself. I'm on a mission to improve my writting skill in this blog.

Let's meet again tomorrow.

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Sterling Hayden

From his autobiography, Wanderer:

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?