Geoff Allen's Journal, Octomber 2003

My Journal

[ October 1st, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "Don't tell me. Don't tell me more things. Don't tell me many more things. Don't tell me many, many more things." (etc)

Interesting photo site - click

In today's email ... click

... and following some of those links ... click

Smashed the record again last evening ... reaching ... 325,500 !!

... learned a couple new words accidentally ... like zek & ken & dey & goy & waw & mun & lar & reb ... :)

Yet other words which seemed like they 'should' be valid were not ...

... even some 4-letter words ... like blat ...

My thumb print - get a better one? next trip 2 the Museum ... :)

Then to put even that score in the shade ... and with verrry little rest ... 412,590 ... where I looked in huge trouble well before getting to 70,000 ... :)

... pes ... fey ... hod ... fub ... just before I crash again at 369,430 ... :)

My two longest words (so far) are molecular and sanity :)

In today's emails ... click - could plug buddha into the search too ...

Could have something to do with today's weather but these lyrics popped into my head 4 the first time in ages ...

More CNNNN ... click :)

Another Leunig page - click

Interesting ep of DS9 last night ... click

[ October 2, 2003 '

Also in recent emails ... click

Today's mantra: "I used to think that men were trying to say something (normal) (to me)."

mir ... noo ... cur ... dun ... mos ... lea ... oke ... oka ... wen ... but big flop by comparison with only 69,000 ... :)

Zen was okay but aum is not accepted :)

Today's puzzle - click

In today's emails -

All the bad news in one place

Paper craft

Another 'flop' at 98,000 ...

Interesting idea :)

What's the worst that could happen?

Their links page is worth a look as well

Cliche challenge

Here's that game I have been raving about lately ...

... or click here for more reviews etc.

AQnd while on the subject of games there's one called gem slider which aint bad either - click

Another interesting quote from Bookshelf 98 last evening ... click

... looks like his brave new world is online to read - click ... I must confess I aint yet read it ... :)

Hmmm ... that might be a dodgy link ... try this

[ October 3, 2003 '

Saw Gary Zukav on the tube for the first time in ages ... his new book looks worth
a read ... click

From one of yesterday's searches ... click

... plus I like the address of this site for some reason ... click :)

"Barry. Barry. Barry was normal & his life was normal. Then one day things changed & he has never been quite the same ever since ..."

BROO ... ZIN ... 391,950 ... :)

Then 78,590 as i think I'm a bit hooked ...

More emails ...

Hurricane Isabel

Read a good book lately?

Interesting concept :)

Lemme see what else was I going to mention ... well ... yet another system freeze-up abruptly curtails my online travels ...

[ October 4, 2003 '

ALM not accepted ... nor HOON ... as i reach ... wait for it ... 1,022,010 ... I mean I was pleased & amazed to reach 500,000 for the first time!! ... :)

... not to mention the sore neck & RSI from all that clicking :)

... mig ... ged ... foh ... noo ... fen ... mut ... ars ... rin ... gid ... rin ... sop ... ley ... tun ... dol ... 312,930 ...

Then ... I guess I am hooked ... sene ... fet ... bap ... (almost sounds like an episode of Batman & Robin :) ... 153,270 ... showing JUST how extraordinary the million points was ... :)

Today's mantra: "HEY HAY HEY. HAY HEY HAY."

More emails ...

Lie of the day

It's beautiful ... ouch!

Can't sleep?

Couldn't resist ... jow ... rax ... sei? ... dork ... mem ... wain ... faze ... doc ... 491,950 :)

[ October 5, 2003 '

Quite a few more mantras added to this list :)

I suppose the one I like the most is: "I used to think I could rupture my own life."

... or maybe "I'm accustoned to looking at the 14 examples of life."

Quote of the day: "You don't own a tv? What's all your furniture pointed at?"

lum ... (but dux not accepted) ... sel ... guv ... yob ... fud ... oke ... abo ... hie ... quag ... hod ... rin ... fas ... 226,140

www.napzapper.com.au

Now with the (slightly) warmer weather, it's time 4 the annual rust check on the roof ... not as bad as i might have expected ... but holding a rope & a cup of rust-eeter and a paintbrush on a sloping roof takes a bit of doing :)

In today's emails ... funpile :)

PrayerWeb

Another little quote from Bookshelf 98 ... click

This looks fun - but I wonder if the file location might move once it is no longer 'this week' ... :)

Click here & here for the finished product

Interesting fable I heard recently ...

And from another book at that site ... click

Yet another worthy book

[ October 6, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... click

Latest Gyuto monks newsletter arrives ... click

Stress relief - click :)

... speaking of which ... click

Lookin over some old links ...

Are you going to starve an old friend :)

Some great images

Daily Thought

Some dolphin sites

Interesting interview about writing ... click :)

Coverage of the Daily Lama touring the US ... click ... plus you can subscribe to daily email services including religious joke of the day ...

Then there's their page of 'most talked about' articles - click

www.crystalsingingbowls.com ... hmm a tad pricey ...

Speaking of heavenly sounds ... click

From that beliefnet site ... plugged the following into Google - mention of a parody site - click

RAX ... GUL ... MERL ... KEP ... and a few others ... 480,660

[ October 7, 2003 '

Also last night, an effort of 25,140 showing just how amazing some of those other scores were ... when you scramble and scramble the letters but a flaming J or a Z just won't match up to any real word :)

Today's mantra:
"A man said something normal & then his wife thought everything was normal."

Also from yesterday ... click

Plus this little site

And then there's this games site - found it from an advert on that paintball game from yesterday ...

ERN ... AIT ... FER ... WUD ... POI ... HAE ... DOL ... CIS ... SEI ... LEV ... RAX ... ZOWIE ... ROC ... FID ... COR ...

In today's emails ... click :)

Another interesting little search - click :)

... rattling unseen chains

Plus one more

That leads me to this guestbook somehow ...

I'd pretty much forgotten writng this :)

A Larson image :)

Huge links page! - click

Following one of them ... takes me here

And later ... click

Even more along that general theme can be found here

[ October 8, 2003 '

Also from yesterday - click

Just 2 prove what an unpredictable little game it is ... last evening the best ever with 1,358,800

... making it the largest gap between 2 successive efforts that you're ever likely 2 see ...

Hey, did I mention this puns site ...

In today's emails -

Cartoon

IQ Test

Chicken Dance :)

Another from yesterday - click :)

"Why am I always famous."

Another little online game - click :)

Continuing the recent poetic theme ... click

More Zen

... also here - esp the allspirit site & the 101 zen stories ...

Of those stories ... I click on 'random' and this pops up :)

Interesting discussion - click

appliedsilliness.com

[ October 9, 2003 '

Also from yesterday - click

HARL ... LAR ... 653,950 ...

More humour in my email - click :)

Cute page from that minclip site - click

More emials ... click

Looking for an old link ... click - I like the meditation therpay site ... oops that's a misprint :)

That also led me to an old fave - Meditate-Celebrate :)

Played that alien abduction game for a while ... then plugged the author's name into a search engine

Excellent quote ... found while looking for info about last night's ep of The Simpsons where Lisa becomes a Buddhist ... click

And on one of those pages is yet another memorable quote

The spiritwalk site seems familiar ... click

"Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise ..." - click

Hmmm ... a sore neck today ... did I sleep awkwardly ... or HAVE I been playing Bookworm a bit too much lately ... :)

A LITTLE LAUGH OR A LITTLE REST

Hey did I mention another 'sticker' site ... click :)

And a few more sites with one of their stickers - click

Continuing the quotey them for today ... click

Found it from a quote at this site

The one by Marianne Williamson aint bad either ... click

"Smack. Smack. Smack. Smack the credibility."

Plus the one by Joan Chittister on this page - about it being "the last thing learned in life" ... hmmm ... dunno about that ... true compassion can be a toughie as well ... hmmm ...

{NOT to mention nonjudgement & equanimity}

Today's puzzle - click

www.higoodsites.com

... leads me ... here

[ October 10, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... click - esp some of the excerpts ...

Try this for a bumper sticker :)

Or how about this ...

www.digital-laughter.com

YELD ... TAM ... HAE ... DURE ... heading 4 another huge score ... MOL ... not EXACTLY what a sore neck really needs ... PHI ... ALA ... 1,016,140 ... and it only ends due to a game malfunction - not allowing me to scramble when only one flaming letter was there ... never happened before ... but my neck was kinda glad the game ended ... :)

In today's emails ... "The realm of reality is as vast as cosmic space; it is the knowing mind of sentient beings that is small" - click - no exact hits but some interestin sites nonetheless :)

Plus this page

Then off 2 watch the cricket :)

Seems tinyurl has a competitor - click

www.stumbleupon.com

... leads me to this page ...

... and then here before I get disconnected ...

[ October 11, 2003 '

Looks like I chose a historic day 2 watch the cricket - click

In today's emails ... click

Updated a couple of files ... like this ...

Using that stumble upon toolbar ... and in the satire category ... click :)

More humour - click

Another view on Hayden's record - click ... plus a bit of a discussion ...

And apparently he reached 334 in 50 fewer deliveries than Bradman did when he scored 300 in a day! (way back in 1930 in England)

Continuing the humorosu vein ... in today's religious joke of the day ... click

[ October 12, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... click

Today's mantra: "In the beginning, God created his own federal emergency."

Quote from a few days ago: "That's the worst thing you've ever done."
"You say that so much it's lost all meaning."

Last night ... AIT ... another big score ... YOD ... GEY ... MORS ... LUM ... ZIN ... DAK ...
DIT ... 966,890

How about some keno numbers:
4, 7, 17, 21, 32, 36, 48, 59, 60, 62

www.jimdonovan.com

In today's emails ... click

Also Linky Dinky's latest bunch -

Some T-shirts

More satire

Personality Test

Another interesting site

3 second genius test - needles to say I flunked it :)

Interesting quiz :)

Using the stumble toolbar again ... click :)

Another cricket site ... click

To further put Hayden''s effort into perspective ... Zimbabwe have currenty lost 17 wickets for just 365 runs ... and we have two top bowlers unable 2 bowl ... click

More emails ... Hugs are heavenly

Then this one came under the Buddhism category??

[ October 13, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... click

... includes a link to www.gurustu.com ...

A couple more jokes in today's email ... click :)

I believe I used that in some of the 'ERMHA Murmur' editions ... click

Also in the email box ... click

How about some more cricket ... click

Plus yet another linky dinky -

"This is going to be the strangest day in your life."

Interesting junk mail tactics ... I receive one labeled "Warning! Do not open this email!!"

Late in the day ... I decide 2 play a spot of BookWorm ... and the run of very large scores is still continuing with 1,054,810 ... I was interested to see if that 'malfunction' would pop up again once I passed 1 million ... it did not but I fluffed things anyway :)