all i wanted was a bar of soap

so i finally burned out my WD primary master drive today. fortunately, i have a dozen other drives. but i suppose the point is that a flame can't burn with such intensity forever. it's bound to burn out.

i may be absurdly obstinate, but i'm not stupid. so in a way, today marks the downsizing of my life. i'll try to start by managing my time more effectively and efficiently, not work as much and spread myself so thin, and just trim the fat. no more 30 and 40 hour days. and maybe, just maybe, i'll catch more than 2 or 3 hours of winks at a time.

so with this move from my server tower to my desktop begins my costly and uphill path to simplification. trout may swim upstream, but the road less traveled is certainly becoming more trite than imagined. i'll let the currents carry me for a bit after.

§ 5150

i can't help but think i'm losing my mind. but i'm usually fairly outrageously ridiculous anyway. instead of my usual 30 to 60 hour days, i've been keeping a half-decent circadian rhythm. anyway, i checked my horoscope, something i tend to do once every few moons:

Knowing the possibilities of what you can achieve has given you an insatiable hunger to get them and nothing will stand in your way.

unsettlingly true.

How to Stop an Exploding Man

Yes, I am still in Africa, but Africa is neither a superpower nor are superpowers really relevant to my experience abroad.

Sure I spend most of my time thinking, fabricating outrageous ideas, and asking more questions than a 4 year-old with ADHD, but Zambia leaves a few extra hours of ruminating room. So, that brings me to the superpower of flight. If I could have any superpower, I would definitely choose flight - unfortunately not much use in saving the world, but it seems more effortless than elemental transmutation and I would save big bucks on airfare. Take that Delta.

What exactly is flight an aggrandizement of? According to the authority on all knowledge, Wikipedia, different forms of flight are energy propulsion methods, cosmic energy control, energy aura projection, gravitational manipulation, magnetic levitation, molecular manipulation, sonic repulsion field, telekinetic power, thermo-chemical energy, and physical propulsion methods.

Check it out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comic_book_superpowers, because knowledge is power!

Well at least we know if someone completes their physics dissertation on superhuman abilities, I'll read over it.

Think about it. Both.