http://tobyfolwick.com/blog blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Funny, ignorance is bliss. I never would have thought it. Giving up isn't that hard to do. Everybody seems to be doing it these days, it's so fashionable. There's a green light on 5th and Wall right now, and I'll take that as a sign. ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=67 it's weird, when you can't do other life things how empty technology becomes. I've always been one who considers technology a life enriching thing. well, post-brain surgery, when everyone is telling me that I'm doing so well on the path to recovery and all that - I'm sitting here, ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=66 man I love poetry. it's dangerous though. I'm buried in work to the level that I'll be working 14 days straight and that leaves me a little tired. when I'm tired I can get melancholy. then add some of your old poetry - basically journal entries ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=65 I've been writing a ton lately - I've always had a lot to say - but the writing part of my brain works entirely differently.  When I'm talking I sort of wander around making analogies and describing.  An example:  yesterday at work I said, "Am I the only one who feels ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=63 I had a great day today - spent a chunk of it in my new garage playing.  I got a free oven off of craigs list today.  I'm going to bake paint in it, and make soap on the top.  yay!  more stuff to do in the home-away-from-home.  I've got ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=62 This week in 1967, Otis Redding is killed when his tour plane crashes into Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin... the "Love Man" is 26... killed with Redding are the pilot and four members of his backup group, the Bar-Kays... the scheduled warm up band for Redding's show that evening is ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=61 ...to having my garage.  this weekend was a combo of good and bad - got a cold so I'm sick and can't do much with the tremendous weather.  I managed to go get myself a power sprayer to clean off the walls in my garage - the higher temperature making ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=60 I was just watching this show SuperBikes! and saw this guy I used to work with talking about his son Aaron Colton.  He's a stunter - wheelies, stoppies and all kinds of stuff I don't know the name of.  Check him out, he's amazing: Aaron Colton - you're not going ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=59 so I'm about to become the proud owner of a building in my town.  my offer was accepted and now it's all about signing the papers and grabbing the keys.  It's an industrial building - like a tiny little warehouse, but a perfect place for me to store the motorcycles, ... http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=58 ...are just 2 of my favorite things about where I live. I recently made my first foray into real estate.  I'm a little stressed out because it's all about paperwork.  Once I survive that part, it's all downhill from there. just a little update. http://tobyfolwick.com/blog/?p=57