Randooooolica

After writing a bit (and copying much more) of Khalil Gibran, I decided to post some random notes of not-so-important topics.

* I'm hoping to go to Falba over Memorial Day.
* My newest employee quit yesterday, due to "lack of challenge." Who cares.
* I watched a show on TV tonight about the lives of "little people" (dwarves). Poignant and impressive. Most of us 'normals' are so oblivious to people with problems that they just have to cope with...not options, they must cope. More power to them and may we all one day understand and applaud them.
* Another trip to Austin late this month, this time in a rented cargo van (I HATE to drive them) late this month, to get boxes of client crap that should have been destroyed years ago. Ah, such is life.
* I want to build a boat. A wooden boat. Something I can drift in, watching fish swim by. No oars, no motor, no skis attached. No racing. Just a simple boat. I don't know how. I do not like reading instructions. I may not build a boat.
* I did not order a new notebook computer today. I wanted to. I did not. I am ashamed. I am proud. I have no right to shame or pride over something so fucking simple. How arrogant of me.
* I witnessed two version so of geezerhood in Dubrovnik; one was the style I embrace, that is, people who think young enough to go for the unusual, experience the odd, and try to love it all...the other was the style that seeks McDonald's at every corner, wants room service in every hostel, expects English from every mouth, and adores George Bush through garments and tatoos. Geezerhood, in my vision, is more closely aligned to the former. The latter is the embodiment of nastiness and idiocy. But if I'm trying to be all-loving, I will forgive the ignorant assholes. Am I not gentle, or what?
* I bought a CD of traditional Croation music; I listened to it tonight. I now want to have a party, with the music playing in the background...I will serve a meal of grilled fresh sardines, seasoned with sea salt and olive oil, served with bread, with entres of loads of octopus and calimari in wonderfully spiced red sauce, and with fine pizza on the side. We will be outdoors, on a screened porch, with a bit of room for dancing. Nice red and white regional wines. It will be lovely. Amazing what music can do, yes?
* Pizza in Dubrovnik is wonderful. Could it be its proximity to Italy, just across the Adriatic sea? Word is in Dubrovnik that it is the precise reason.

I'm getting into travelogue...I must stop.