Yeah so I am a citizen of the interweb and my pc is my hub and home.
My morning routine currently runs like this.

Wake up.
Get up.
Turn on pc( or ‘wake from standby mode).
Get to the bathroom.
Wake kids.
Log on to pc ( leave windoze to boot).
Go get breakfast for kids.
Put coffee on.
Remind the kids of what they need for today.
Make lunches.
Pour coffee.
Herd kids upstairs to get dressed.
Sit at pc reading news feeds, sipping coffee and monitoring kids progress,
pausing to brush hair and straighten collars and being their speaking clock,
until I get hugs and they leave for school.

This morning the pc didn’t boot, hell it didn’t get through the bios checks.
I did the turn it off and on several times while looking at it forlornly with my coffee.
I turned on the radio to catch the news but it’s just not the same, it’s too slow.
I read a fair speed of knots and the adds on the radio and the sound bites of news only
served to wet my appetite and frustrate me. I prefer my news raw as possible off “the wires”
with my coffee.

I got on with the rest of my routine after all the coffee and news is to keep me distracted
while the kids preform their ablutions and get themselves dressed for the day.

But my pc is not just my connection to the web and the world; it is also music.
At that time of the morning is usually something from fantasia,
bright with a certain tempo that the children bounce along to and out the door.
Things move slower with out it, focus is lost and so are left shoes and instead of grinning at
each other brushing their teeth to the tempo there were arguments and jostling at the sink
and name calling and tears and all before school. They did notice and ask what was wrong with my pc when they were saying goodbye to me and expressed their concern for it and me with a second hug.

After they left and I finished my coffee it was time to figure out what was wrong with it.

After about 10 mins I knew it was the motherboard and reckoned it was the damn warm weather as
I had never gotten around to adjusting the fans up for it being summer and decided to
turn it off and on again one more time before disconnecting the tower from the cluster of cables
at the back so I could open it up.

I defaulted to my main profession and to what I had seen my Dad do so many times over the years,
I swore at it, gave it a good thump, but a technician’s thump right above the fan and lo and behold,
she booted, trough set up, bios and then the os set up and sat there with the curser blinking cheekily waiting for me to log in as if she had been playing possum for the last hour.

So I have been giving her a lil tlc and hoping that this was a friendly warning and not the start of trouble but damn it I am going to have to give her a name now.

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Darklight 2008: The Future Is Now
Dublin June 26 – 29, 2008

This year’s Darklight Festival is a four-day event celebrating cutting-edge film, animation, art and technology, offering an eclectic series of screenings, seminars, workshops and special events at a series of Dublin venues.

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The dance of the Kundalini Clown.
On of the many email lists I am subscribed to is for Kundalini yoga and meditations.

This one arrived in my email and was to good not to share.

From:KYtraining@yahoogroups.com

#148 GEMINI LESSONS

THE PATH OF HUMOR

June 1, 2008

By Guru Rattana, Ph.D.

What if there was another way?

What if we could get enlightened by being happy and sharing happiness with others? What if we could be liberated by being kind to ourselves and each other? What if the first rule of Earth school was to learn how to enjoy this precious life? What if we had to laugh and joke everyday to pass go?

These are all “serious” possibilities that we might have overlooked. Like everything else in life, we can only know if we experiment. Our challenge this month is to see if we can raise our vibration with humor. If we accept the challenge, we will soon realize that the path of humor is the path of the heart, not the head. We can’t figure out the path of the heart. The path of the heart is not a brainy logical endeavor. The path of the heart is a spontaneous encounter with life and our soul. When our heart is open, we are freed up to love and be loved. We are available to be happy and spread happiness in the world.

I had a tee shirt once with a bright picture of a dancing clown. It said “Life is so mysterious. Don’t take it so serious.” I think a Gemini designed that shirt. Although Gemini is an air/mental sign, the cosmic messenger seems to intuitively know not to take life too seriously. When we are in our heads and lost in our thoughts, we block off the connection to our heart. Gemini keeps its heart open by being adventurous and exploring life with a light-hearted attitude.

Another Level of Humor

A fitting Gemini challenge is to take our sense of humor to the next level. First, we are invited to not take everything that happens to us so seriously or personally. In addition to the simple enjoyment of the events of life, we can go deeper into our heart, where we experience joy for no apparent reason. We are just happy. In this inner place, we can begin to witness cosmic humor and how elegantly and delightfully everything fits together.

Chant the mantra “Wahe Guru” to generate happy brainwaves. “Wahe Guru” imparts the vibration of ecstasy. While you are practicing Kundalini yoga and meditation, take time between exercises to feel the dance of the Kundalini Clown.

Choose Humor

Last year when my mom was making her transition, she greeted her many visitors wearing a red clown nose. She told the hospice nurses, “Now don’t take this all so seriously.” She made a lot of people happy during those last months of her life. We can all make similar choices even during difficult times.

Humor takes the edge off of situations so we can relax. Humor also heals and keeps us healthy. It is now common knowledge that stress is one of the main causes of disease. Humor is an antidote to stress.

A fun thing happened the day of the year anniversary of my mother’s death. I went into a local shop and a lady of the shop comes towards me – “You have got to see this cute picture!” It was a big oil painting of a playful clown on a bicycle. “Hi Mom, yes I am having fun!” This is not the first time Mom has danced through making sure I knew she was doing very well indeed.

Your Assignment

Your assignment for June is

[1] to not take yourself or every minute detail in life so seriously

[2] to make it your priority to uplift others and spread joy

[3] to make people and yourself laugh

[4] to change negative conversations into heart-felt connection

[5] to perfect your sense of humor

The Moon and Mercury Retrograde

Dates to celebrate are GEMINI NEW MOON June 3rd and SAGITTARIUS FULL MOON June 18th. Gemini requests a party atmosphere through May 20th at 9:01 AM (4:51 PM GMT) when the Sun moves into Cancer. Mercury is retrograde in Gemini from May 26 through 7:31 AM PDT June 19th. What better time to find our inner clown and open our heart!

A thrusting tryst in the fell of night
Late past the witching hour,
Close to the dawn and the creeping light
lost in the lost small hours
where neither night or day holds sway or power.

Wanting, wishing and waiting willingly
a space made ready both with out and with in.
Time ticks, tension becomes thrilling
subtlety suggesting the sensuous sinning
which will leave them both grinning
lying spent and content.

Funny what you find scribbled in long forgotten notebooks shoved safe away,
it had gone from my mind that I wrote this over two years ago.
Still despite all that has past from then to now it is a happy find.

Gentle large wet drops of rain, the temperature has finally dropped down for the first time this month.
the clean cool breeze filled my room and the scent of the rain was first to hit my senses.

I opened the windows of my room further letting the chill wash into the room and then could not resist it any longer went down and out to stand in the front garden to stand barefoot, face raised, eyes closed, skin a quiver. I sighed and raised my arms slightly reveling in the feel of it.

Next I hear a voice saying ” Are you ok ?” one of my neighbors had pulled into the adjacent drive before I came out of the house and had been on the phone in her car. “Yep” I replied and went back to just being in the rain.
She shuts the door with a puzzled look on her face gathers her belongings and gets out of the car.

I loosen my hair from it’s restraints, shake it out and it swishes around my shoulders I laugh enjoying the sensation. I hear the car door open as I breath in the smell of the wet grass and feel it between my toes.
“You came down just to stand in the rain” she realises out loud, I look at her and grin, she grins back and for a moment raises her face to feel the rain and I watch the stress of her day slide from her face.

Then she collects her self, gathers up what she must do before bed unto her self in much the same way as she took things from the car, she collects her worries and responsibilities from the universe after letting them go for a few moments. ” Fair play to ye” she says in parting and goes into the brightness of her house leaving me smiling in the dark and the rain.

I’m in over my head
Fire fills me, hot and red
Raging like a blood red sun
Fire fuelled by deeds undone
Burning and I just can’t wait to give a helping hand to fate
Change this crazy world around, first we gotta cool down

Take me dancing naked in the rain
Feel it washing over me, oh oh
Join me dancing naked in the rain
Cover me in ecstasy, oh

Oh oh

Smoke is in my eyes
Drifting from the burning cries
Of those who have no strength to stand
Against the fire in the land
Come and wash away the pain, step into the blessed rain
Cool the fire in your soul, the rain will make you whole

Take me dancing naked in the rain
Feel it washing over me, oh oh
Join me dancing naked in the rain
Cover me in ecstasy
Take me dancing naked in the rain
Feel it washing over me, ooh ooh
Join me dancing naked in the rain
Cover me in ecstasy, oh

Oh oh

Come and wash away the pain, step into the blessed rain
Cool the fire in your soul, the rain will make you whole
Come and wash away the pain, step into the blessed rain
Cool the fire in your soul, the rain will make you whole

Take me dancing naked in the rain
Feel it washing over me, oh oh
Join me dancing naked in the rain
Cover me in ecstasy
Take me dancing naked in the rain
Feel it washing over me, ooh ooh
Join me dancing naked in the rain
Cover me in ecstasy, oh

Oh oh, hey hey

So we ( my brats and I ) have been watching Avatar: the last airbender.
It has to be one of the best “children’s” programs I have watched in a long time.
We have been watching them in order but there are some that my brats have already seen.
On starting back watching after they had been away my daighter tells me
that the one we are due to watch is where and main character learns about chakras.

I was a bit surprised as it’s not a topic I would have raised with my kids
and asked her what are chakras to be told that
“They are 7 pools of engry in a person’s body and they flow into each other and get blocked when a person is upset.”.
Not a bad way for a nearly 8 year old to think of chakras.

I watched the episode, it was good.