First day back to work...
So I made my way back to work today. Not too bad. Didn't seem to miss too much, which is good I guess. Tonight I was supposed to head out to Santa Monica for dinner but decided to go home first and relax. I made a stop at Costco for some $2 pizza and cheap gas. I was running out on the way home. While eating my pizza I decided to check out the flat screen TVs. There was a 42" plasma HDTV by Phillips for only $1899. That's not too bad! About two years ago that would have easily been at least $3k. But alas, I held back. hehe...

So this weekend I'm going to try and lay low. Visit with people I haven't seen in a bit and show my face to the outside world =). I'm hoping I'll make it to the beach sometime this weekend. Right now I'm going to head out to a restaurant called El Cholo in Santa Monica, known for their margaritas..but ah, I will only have water because of my drugs. =p


Here's to the Yin and Yang in all of us...

Everything can be described as either yin or yang.

1. Yin and yang are opposites.

Everything has its opposite—although this is never absolute, only comparative. No one thing is completely yin or completely yang. Each contains the seed of its opposite. For example, winter can turn into summer; "what goes up must come down".

2. Yin and yang are interdependent.

One cannot exist without the other. For example, day cannot exist without night.

3. Yin and yang can be further subdivided into yin and yang.

Any yin or yang aspect can be further subdivided into yin and yang. For example, temperature can be seen as either hot or cold. However, hot can be further divided into warm or burning; cold into cool or icy. Within each spectrum, there is a smaller spectrum; every beginning is a moment in time, and has a beginning and end, just as every hour has a beginning and end.

4. Yin and yang consume and support each other.

Yin and yang are usually held in balance—as one increases, the other decreases. However, imbalances can occur. There are four possible imbalances: Excess yin, excess yang, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency. They can again be seen as a pair: by excess of yin there is yang deficiency and vice versa. The imbalance is also a relative factor: the excess of yang "forces" yin to be more "concentrated".

5. Yin and yang can transform into one another.

At a particular stage, yin can transform into yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death. However this transformation is relative too. Night AND day coexist on Earth at the SAME time when shown from space.

6. Part of yin is in yang and part of yang is in yin.

The dots in each serve: 1. as a reminder that there are always traces of one in the other. For example, there is always light within the dark (e.g., the stars at night), these qualities are never completely one or the other. 2. as a reminder that absolute extreme side transforms instantly into the opposite. For example, the hardest stone is easiest to break.

Hope you're off to a good weekend!