Andy's Mind

OK, so I’m moving forward according to my little plan. Design is almost ready.

Now it’s time for the hard part – importing the posts from Blogger. The procedures for that require an FTP server, which I don’t have having disabled FTP on my boxes as outdated and inherently insecure. Looks like I’ll have to open the doors to my castle for a few seconds….

On Friday I borrowed a bike from a friend of mine, who doesn’t use it recently (they have a small kid and no time). I’ve made around 50 miles since then, which is not much but given the fact that I wasn’t riding a bicycle for more than a year I think it’s pretty good. I feel better overall and I spend now at least an hour every day on the bike.

Starting this Wednesday (tomorrow is a national holiday out here) I plan to go to work on the bike. It would be much more fun. Unless it would rain, of course.

While sitting in meditation yesterday I saw how much mental junk litters my mind. But I also saw it is not it. There is lots of work ahead of me before I’ll be able to just sit.

It is actually quite nice to have a cat or two. I have two, the fat, black one and the thin, grey one. Sure, they meow sometimes and you don’t understand a word of what they are saying. And yes, their daily schedule includes a wild morning run at around 5 AM. Five days ago Basil, the grey one, woke me up at around this hour by meowing loudly. It turned out he just needed to be stroked and comforted some. The fatso, in turn, likes to come to my bed at night and snuggle against my arm purring happily. And yes, there are bowls to fill and a tray to empty each day. And yes, their fur is everywhere, literarily. Traveling with them would be a major trouble too, therefore I always organize someone to take care of them while I’m gone (which is also not that easy, few people like emptying cat’s trays).

But, I have to admit, that I really like these guys.