2007, back to work

Holidays and vacation are over. This is the view from a window in my office, facing southeast, yesterday morning (Tuesday) at about 8:15am. Almost forgot my network password -- that's a good vacation!

On the drive to the BART station I saw some stirring views of the morning light on the hills, and tried to take some pictures as I drove. When I looked at the pictures they all seemed emotionally flat. You see with your mind not your eye. The special experience of driving over Deer Hill Road and the panorama that spreads out below is totally lost in this example.

The days are now very busy for me, or at least feel that way since last week. What's happened is now I squeeze all my personal activities into a few hours before and after work. I need to keep clarifying and refining my aims, goals, and objectives to work a better schedule and to identify priority activities (as I see it at the moment). Time is neither for nor against us... or is it? I've heard comments that time is an abstraction created in the human mind and doesn't actually exist in nature, at least not as we perceive it. If it is purely from our minds, then our motivation/intentions regarding time could be for or against us. When you squeeze time it gets wiggly.