Drew Clinkenbeard

import random
import time
i = round(random.randint(10,20)
j = 0
love = random.randint(0,1)
while(j < i):
	j = j + 1
	if(love == 1):
		print "loves me\n"
		love = 0
	else:
		print "loves me not\n"
		love = 1
time.sleep(1)

Ah Costa Mesa, the city of lights mixed income levels. So I am in Costa Mesa, CA. for the next few days for PeopleSoft training. The actual training starts tomorrow (on St. Patric’s day! woo). So far the experience is agreeable. I found the hotel with out any difficulty, thanks to Google and the slightly creepy street view feature of Google maps.

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There is a book called ‘The Phantom Tollbooth‘ it’s one of those books that I read that redefined my personality. There was demon in that looked like le fils de l’homme only he actually didn’t have a face. He went on all the time about change being bad. This was also the book that made me love math and language. It was dark in places and demonstrated that just because you were a child you could still deal with tough decisions. Indeed it really emphasized that when you are a child your lack of experiance makes MANY things a tough decision.

The one thing that really stuck out in my mind though was a house with a door on each of its four walls. Each door was labled differently. There was ‘The Giant’, ‘The Midget’, ‘The Fat Man’ and ‘the Thin Man’ as you may have guessed each door was answered by the same perfectly average man. The reasoning was that from a thin perspective, he was fat, tall he was short etc.

We’ll be right back

Everyone follows a path. There are as many paths as there are people. We all travel a path toward a goal, often the goal is not attainable, this makes it no less appealing nor any less a worthwhile journey. Indeed in the end it becomes the path and the act of traveling which is the worthier part. In the end finding the goal would cause the traveling to end. I have crafted my own path, one of honor and respect. one of hard work and study. I have, unbeknown to myself, begun traveling the path of zazen.

Unfortunately this path of honor has prevented me from taking chances that would have not caused me to bat an eye some years ago. In the end I hope that this path causes me to clean some of the tarnish from my soul and my belief in karma means that I hope it pays off in the end, but if not, at least I made the world a little better for others. I would say it has also caused me to “regret not doing things instead of regretting doing them” but regret, like gloating, is a waste of time. (15 points to the first one to get the quotes)

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