* In NorCal a baddie gets busted for having 111 illicit weapons - some full-auto, many or all stolen - stashed in a camouflaged cave. PRESS HERE
* God do I love meat pies. Even the bad ones are good.
* A private Navy goes to work protecting flotillas of freighters off the Barbary Coast of Somalia. PRESS HERE
* In economically-strapped Spain, the unemployed learn to create - and thrive in - a cashless, bottom-up economy. PRESS HERE
* Cool documentary about Ram Bahadur Bomjan ("Buddha Boy"), who went for several years without eating, drinking water or seeking shelter from the elements in Nepal last decade. PRESS HERE
IMHO: I thought this story was popular fantasy until I saw this documentary. Am told that the types of yogic powers displayed by Ram - surviving without eating or drinking water, generating internal heat to counteract cold weather, etc. - are the result of concentration meditation. This type of meditation leads to yogic powers, but not to enlightenment. Awareness meditation is what leads to enlightenment. Too bad, because I think yogic powers are super cool. Seriously - Jesus had them and he was as cool as cool can be!
* FINALLY bought a freaking couch, after 11 months in my new/first home (an 840 sf cottage). Got rid of the unusable freebie love seat that sat in my living room for half a year. The cat has not yet claimed the new couch...which perplexes me.
* Almost done building a keyhole garden, which I will use to grow food in during the Spring/Summer months when the high sun should give it full light all day every day. Don't know how effective it will be in my windy and cool backyard - these gardens are designed for a hot, dry African climate. Will post a photo shortly.
FYI: PLAN MAJOR PROJECTS BEFORE EMBARKING ON THEM. FFS I didn't. First I bought 2 truckloads of scrap bricks and cinder blocks and ceramic pipes, then I patched all that heavy, ugly crap together to form a 3-foot-high wall around a 6-foot diameter circle. Then I realized it looked godawful, tore it apart, bought new cinder blocks for less than I paid for the used ones, re-built the garden and have now half-filled it with dirt. Should be done tomorrow. The end result of not planning this escapade is that I spent an entire week (my week off!) building it, wasted $100 on it, am left with several piles of used bricks and large ceramic pipes that I don't want and probably can't sell, and I got the best full-body workout I've had in years.
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