Whew! Finally uploaded 28 new pictures, mostly fro…
Whew! Finally uploaded 28 new pictures, mostly from Australia, to my photography page, updated my links and about page a bit. Now I need to write some new stories and get those up as well. I was up until 4 a.m. last night working on it, mostly because I spent most of yesterday with Seamus and Dean. We met in the bamboo grove in Da-an Park at noon yesterday and practiced swordfighting pretty much all afternoon. It was exhausting because none of us had done it in a while, but it felt really good to be out there doing it again. Unfortunately, Seamus is only in Taiwan for a week. He’s leaving for a three-month trip to Japan this friday.
We had dinner at Subway and then arranged to meet at Dean’s new place, out on Zhongxiao E. Road in an alley behind the Paris Paris department store. Dean’s new bike is an old Kawasaki farmer’s bike, so out of fashion it’s back in fashion, if you know what I mean: all silver and black, top speed of about 60 kph. The kind of bike you need to be either wearing a rice farmer’s hat or a WWI baron outfit.
We began to watch the Enterprise episodes Dean’s uncle had mailed. I have to say I really like that series; it’s a lot more honest about human nature than I have seen in the other Star Trek shows. Unfortunately, after we bade Seamus farewell and came back up to the apartment, we discovered that someone, mostly like the cat, which has figured out how to open doors and use major credit cards, had accidently hit the “record” button on the VCR, erasing an episode and a half. Dean was livid and immediately served notice to the cat’s lawyer. I think we have a solid case.
I dragged myself out of bed at 9:55 a.m. this morning, since Seamus and I had arranged to meet in the park for more sword practice. Dean couldn’t make it, saying he had an important date with some influential pancakes at Jake’s Urban Trap or whatever it’s called. I learned quite a bit this morning, however, including the “Wave Theory”, in which Seamus explained force and timing in a way which I think improves my motions a lot. The weather today is perfect, bright and breezy, not too hot or cool. Seamus said he was going to spend the rest of the day in the park on a blanket in the sun. Sounds tempting.
Now, however, I have to meet up with the people who might want me to be in that play, Kafka’s Dick, over at Grandma Nitti’s. I’ve read a few excerpts online, and it does sound good, but it also depends on how much time I’ll have available and whom exactly I would be working with. There should be a few familiar faces from the last production I did, as well as some people I’ve never met before. It should be interesting. I really need to get writing on some new stories and especially on my book if I’m going to make my self-imposed deadline of Christmas.
For some reason my Internet connection has been really shite lately. Sites like amazon.com and hotmail.com get “Cannot find server” messages. I’ve heard of several other people with the same problem. Sounds like a Chunghwa Telecom problem. I wonder if they’ve even noticed something’s wrong. I doubt it.
