? Bewildered.

Hello! Since you're my main company, I thought I'd write an update. Tho won't say as much using only thumbs. I started sewing Sunday. I'll be sewing by hand probably. See my del.icio links for some of the story. Then, what to do while hand sewing what could take months? Well I found out how to listen to audiobooks on this. And I've only been using solar power to charge this, and so far, so good. Keeping phone in offline mode, such as when typing this or when listening to audiobooks may have helped.

My month of unlimited prepaid data is coming to an end in a day or two. But I'll still get email on this - I just forward non-spam on as mms messages to the phone. And reply by mms to the email. $5/mo for 200 msgs. Plus, I still have 836 or so left from the 1000 I paid $10 for, and these roll over, not expiring till July 10.

A lot more has passed through my mind as potential things to say here. The one that may sum them up: "Bewildered" as a possible title or part title for this blog. Not that I don't have moments when "*".

Learning more about the domestic sewing world has been an eye-opener. Hellomynameisheather blog and Blissful Living are two examples of the posher version. People spend hours sewing for meaning, pleasure, not money. No one you know? There are signs they exist. I managed at least an hour today, in spite of at least a few hours of fiddling with the best way to play librevox audiobooks on this.

I'm camped out just outside the back door under a 5'x7' blue tarp suspended from the edges of the house and the _Dr Who_ shed. I never recovered from some respiratory issue, perhaps left over from the Barcamp disease, and my recent late night tech fiddling depravities made it worse at one point. Staying outside seems better for me and is more like how it is in the forest. The weather has been very nice, if a little San Francisco foggy at times, and I fear the fig trees have been delayed.

My friend who got me to look more seriously at Permaculture wrote to share how transformative he has found nonviolent communication to be - Marshall Rosenberg may be the name of the main author there.

I have been increasingly unmoved these days. Recent parings-down have been of my Internet life and past selves and causes. You know of my feed reduction already. More recent has been filter reduction. Now I'm minus perhaps 75 filters-- of people who no longer send me email, or of the many lists I no longer subscribe to.

[Just back from a break to get the rest of _Mysterious Island_ on here, to get computer started converting _Gulliver's Travels_, to order 2Gig mem card ($11), to see if any more ripe bananas for cheap in Vons (no, mornings are best), to walk around and find orange trees (score 4 but pickings slim without bike tho plenty unpicked trees behind fences), to get some things started cooking. Now, to eat.]

So, I also got rid of many labels I used for the filtered mail - all that is left representing many of them is 'walking sangha' - no more carfree, green, permaculture, monasticism, etc. I did not vote in the primaries.

That's enough for now.

Peace,