We've had 11 earthquakes that were above a 3.0 in the past 9 days, and 3 over 4.0. The ground is rocking and rolling for sure! It all continues to be exciting. The 4.7 that hit last Friday was especially fun because I was in the campus parking garage when it happened. Parking garages are built to flex, so that was especially bouncy as the ground thundered for 10 seconds.
Last night I broke down and took the framed art off the walls, especially the heavy pieces above my headboard. I rather not get struck in the head in my sleep and bleed out from a scalping. That would be most unfortunate. Most everything that I really want to keep is now on the floor, just in case, but it's only temporary. One can't live life as such forever, but current precautions make sense.
People are starting to feel phantom earthquakes though... every little bump is cause for belief another has gone off. I believe the colloquial term for it is "tripping". We're all resorting to looking at the USGS site for confirmation of the jitters... even us resigned types. No one knows what is coming. We are told to prepare for the worst since the quakes are simultaneously increasing in frequency and in magnitude. It's certainly unusual...
After the major activity for the past couple of weeks, there have been very few the past two days, and all have been too light to feel. So perhaps it has calmed down... or it's gearing up again. No one knows. Still, no point in worrying about things one can't change!
Yesterday was Willie Nelson's birthday, and like Mr. Nelson, I'm not terribly motivated to write once the good times begin to roll.
Lots of great things happening. Great career choices ahead, starting my doctorate, and dating is going quite well.
But as my ex used to always point out: I don't get excited until things have actually happened. No worries though, I'm in the process of making lots of things happen, and on my own terms. I am excited for the fact that I have had the strength and the persistence to move to a place in my life where I can make choices. I, for the moment, no longer feel stuck. It's a great feeling, and I am proud of myself for getting up off my butt to make the changes that were needed.
I'm a gay man from Reno, Nevada who now lives in the Bay Area (hopefully soon to be San Francisco). I've been blogging for a couple of years but had taken a break from writing to clear my head. I've been in two relationships lasting over the past ten years, and I'm still trying to find my own way. I'm continuously on the path towards figuring out who I really am, what I want from life, and where I'm going. It has been a tough road, but the light is getting brighter.
This blog is a work in progress. For me, the work is to continuously find the productive parts of my life and my behavior, incorporate positive changes permanently into my life, and slough off the stuff that isn't so great. I've left a career path and the city I've lived in my entire adult life for love, and now am struggling to find work and a place to settle (a victim of the economy, as so many others are). Even so, I found that I'm generally quite capable on my own, but I am still human and fallable.
This blog is about gaining my confidence and owning my own life. It's about a small town gay man learning about himself in an urban city. It's about me.
This little corner is my personal space. Here I can chronicle my behavior, share my thoughts, and engage in my own conversation. Through this
medium, I can share what it is that I'm thinking as life unfolds before me. I do this so that I can look
back - and ultimately assess how I am really living.
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