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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

More on the Eclectic Self: Passions and Hobbies

I post about stuff and things based on the moment, and there's a ton of things I can comment on since I happen to be passionate in most anything requiring more than five minutes. So I have to admonish myself over believing I cannot offer advice and opinion because that is my so not true.

NASA emails me the location of the International Space Station when its visible over my home.  I have watched two meteor showers in the past couple of months .. so .. our secret, I'm a budding astronomy freak. I woke my kid up to watch lunar eclipse just because I wanted us to witness this rare one together. My late night googles are research for a telescope I will not regret later.  You have all read my frustrations with the world of sales and the pitfalls of uneducated or under-thinking buying.  I have been sneaking outside and freezing to death for a long time, and I believe I'm ready to watch way too much YouTube, read up on telescope ratings and researching the best reference materials.

I also have the best saltwater tank for all my expectations; my tank has even surpassed my own daydreams of what I can achieve inside of 36 gallons.  A dream from college that I wanted in this phase of my life has become so much more than fish and a shrimp.  I fell in love with the whole biosphere concept and the beauty of corals.  Corals are amazing.  The way everything interconnects simply puts me at a loss for words.  More than the equipment woes are the sparkling discoveries late night with a mag-lite, and I haven't even touched on those.  I need to tell the Hansel story sometime, and the whole evolution of my fish tank that really was not a disaster or waste of money because I put so much time into finding things out before jumping.  The talk of Mr. Secret Reef has been the end result that I am so excited and exalted to share with people.  He is coming this Wednesday to do my water change, as well ask bring more liverock and substrate.  He is going to take what I have in the tank and secure it all so I don't have London Bridge and he doesn't have this fair lady freaking about my injured fish. (Another story that is worth telling now that my blood pressure won't be affected)

You guys all know my love of being a parent and I'm sure my week of posts about birthday week made more than a few of you laugh.  I have to tell you though, I have to dust off my shoulders with pride as my daughter opened the door on my husband and I... and her response to the whole scenario besides being funny is worth sharing because the philosophy I see all this falling into might be of use to many other parents with my stoicism.

I talk alot about records and music.  About the cave in the basement.  Sometime I guess I should talk about my turntables and what I spin when I can.  Why I like being a solo DJ in my basement without an audience and where that sprung up from.

I write this post because I read back and see myself blindly thinking I've missed the whole blog concept.  The biggest error in the beginning was not posting often.  I've been thinking I need just one topic to constantly talk about, and well, I do.  Practical living of everyday life as it applies to me.  What I realize from many anonymous people's email remarks about my blog is a pure truth:  if it comes to mind, talk about it.  Not only that, be specific, because some of you want to know.  Thanks for helping me find that missing link inside all this.  Sure, the humor is great, you guys even appreciate that its actual fact and what's more, ask for more detail in that department.

I will do my very best to talk about my Gmail from readers.  I appreciate all the thumbs up on my attempts and research into webpage design and blog layout.  I promise.

I intend on somehow weaving my voice recorder files into all this.  I haven't decided where to go with it yet.  I have great things to listen to simply because you have to hear to understand.. and I want to share these things in relation to this blog, but want to protect them because they are my voice and also, they are research in the making.. on webpage design.  I started them for self discovery and growth and well, now on to more practical uses.

Anyway, its late, and I'm still watching things about telescopes and having my mind boggled.  Anyone wanting to share a blog or point me to a link on great resources for this venture are welcome!

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