Dichroic Reflections

both sides now

afternoon 2001-07-05 bothsidesn.html
both sides now

This is not an Ampersand entry. This is a thinking-about-Ampersand-entry entry. Unless I never come up with a real entry, in which case I might polish this and send it in.

This month’s topic is "going up/going down". Now why would that resonate here? Well, here’s a list of some of my hobbies:

• hiking in the mountains


• rock climbing


• flying (I have my VFR pilot’s rating)


• mountain biking


• skiing

The following are things that aren’t exactly hobbies, but that I’ve done and enjoyed:

• sky diving


• scuba diving


• bungie jumping


• parasailing


• hang gliding


• snow boarding


• rapelling (as part of climbing)


• aerobatics


• sightseeing from a helicopter

Starting to see a pattern here? This is why I’m inclined to address the topic very literally, instead of writing about the stock market going up, or “going down” in the sense of oral intercourse. As you can see, I have a penchant for experimenting with gravity.

I just haven’t figured out what to say about it, or how.

Postscript: The Site Meter says this journal had its 2000th reader sometime today. Wow. Thanks.

(Of course, that would be about 1500 visits if it didn’t count me fiddling with the layout and correcting my links and spelling, but still. Wow. Thanks, nonetheless.)

Posted by dichroic at July 5, 2001 02:31 PM