2010.03.03 19:00 - Vacations

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Paradise joined me after about 15 minutes of me perched on the roof waiting for arrivals.....

Out conversations meandered from the fountain to work and current work related projects and urban design to vacations, employment, and blood pressure, ending up in a short PaB and body connections related to dropping.....

Paradise Tennant: hiya steve

stevenaia Michinaga: hi Paradise, I was inspecting the roof

Paradise Tennant: smiles

Paradise Tennant: where did the water go :)

stevenaia Michinaga: I turned it off for a small group

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Paradise Tennant: very quiet some nites isn't it

Paradise Tennant: often find it .. sort of too quiet :)

stevenaia Michinaga: type "/9help" to see how to control the fountain and cushions

Paradise Tennant: ahh kk

stevenaia Michinaga: the water sounds can be distracting

stevenaia Michinaga: are you considering going to SF in April

Paradise Tennant: not likely was away two weeks in feb

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, sounded so nice

Paradise Tennant: difficult to come back for a month and then be gone another week

Paradise Tennant: I get lots of holiday time just find it hard to use it

Paradise Tennant: are you going

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: I am in the strange situation, when I am busy enough to afford a vacation I don;t have the time, but when I aI am not busy enough to have the time, I can;t afford a vacation

stevenaia Michinaga: Clients can be a fickle group

Paradise Tennant: smiles .. yes life's most common conundrum :) when you have money you have not time when you have time you have not money

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, well put

Paradise Tennant: *no *no

stevenaia Michinaga: so best to appreciate whichever comes your way

Paradise Tennant: YES!

stevenaia Michinaga: live is a vacation

stevenaia Michinaga: life

Paradise Tennant: smiles

stevenaia Michinaga: which makes vacations especially nice

Paradise Tennant: yes they are really nice .. like to get away .. love traveling .. happy to do at the spur of the moment too ..

Paradise Tennant: how is your practice coming :)

stevenaia Michinaga: RL or PaB...

Paradise Tennant: both :)

stevenaia Michinaga: I am at the early stages of some very exciting work that is developing nicely, keeping me very busy

Paradise Tennant: ah so no time to practice ;(

stevenaia Michinaga: probably one of the more complex things I;ve worked on

Paradise Tennant: the infrastructure project ?

stevenaia Michinaga: no, seems before PaB I always have a bit of time for Chi Gung or my Tai Chi Practice

stevenaia Michinaga: which relaxes me for PaB here

stevenaia Michinaga: it;s a large urban market and 5 stories of housing

Paradise Tennant: smiles that would keep you busy :)

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it is also unique for the relatively small city I work in

Paradise Tennant: unique is good

Paradise Tennant: smiles

stevenaia Michinaga: rebuilding on substantially empty lots

stevenaia Michinaga: on a main street

stevenaia Michinaga: at the edge of downtown

Paradise Tennant: so you are happy ... you have a project that makes you really stretch and think .. always a lucky thing !

stevenaia Michinaga: I could go no :)

stevenaia Michinaga: on

Paradise Tennant: listens

stevenaia Michinaga: (lots of editing tonight)

stevenaia Michinaga: urban markets are not widespread these days, most have removed themselves from downtowns so this will be a good change for the city, keep people from needing to drive to get food

Paradise Tennant: yes I pretty much very seldom drive .. use transit or walk so much more relaxing

Paradise Tennant: love taking the tube .. can listen to music .. organize my day in my head .. it is all good often the most quiet time I have until I am heading back home

stevenaia Michinaga: you are lucky, but Toronto , like many large cities has localized resources

Paradise Tennant: yes

Paradise Tennant: good planning

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, that too

Paradise Tennant: well . hugely difficult processes but the end results have not been too bad

stevenaia Michinaga: in the states everyone "moved out" and transit does not work in the mists of sprawl

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: everyone wants trains back but will not move back to the city to support them

stevenaia Michinaga: so they don;t build urban housing

stevenaia Michinaga: hoping this will be the beginning of reversing the trend

Paradise Tennant: city have so many facets .. you have more of a crime issue because of a lack of social programs that creates a very definite geography

Paradise Tennant: well in the very big cities that is

stevenaia Michinaga: crime exists in the suburbs, but home break-in and traffic accidents just just don;t seem t be the same as urban crime

stevenaia Michinaga: but it's all relative, when people from NY come, they laugh at what we call crime

Paradise Tennant: not as pronounced in canada but no guns and lots of welfare programs .. don't mind paying the taxes like to walk my dog at 2 am anywhere and not think about it

stevenaia Michinaga: nice

stevenaia Michinaga: you shouldn;t let your dogs run you like that :)

Paradise Tennant: but our taxes are so much higher lol .. I work till sometime in June before I actually finish paying my annual tax bill

Paradise Tennant: lol

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, but if we wold add healthcare to our taxes it would be the same thing

Paradise Tennant: like 56% of your income

Paradise Tennant: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: but most live in denial of that and pint the finger at the rest of the world about how "bad" socialized medicine would be here

Paradise Tennant: hmm

Paradise Tennant: yes every place has its successes and challenges

stevenaia Michinaga: kind of like standing on the island with the water rising all around you and saying we're safe there

stevenaia Michinaga: well maybe a bad metaphor

Paradise Tennant: well I am very happy you are enjoying what you are working on ..makes the days so much brighter :)

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it would be unfortunate if the work you do pains you

Paradise Tennant: well shall we explore a PAB topic ..anything come to mine

Paradise Tennant: *mind

stevenaia Michinaga: A close friend lost her job which she did not like, her blood pressure went from 180/something to 120/something once she was unemployed

stevenaia Michinaga: sure

Paradise Tennant: lol thinks work is pretty much unhealthy for many folks :)

stevenaia Michinaga: think of the physical affect of PaB

stevenaia Michinaga: how letting go can calm...

Paradise Tennant: yes dropping

stevenaia Michinaga: dropping probably lowers BP too

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: smiles

Paradise Tennant: speaking of dropping .. I think I am going to have to quietly sneak out .. I am sorry I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open .. just a very busy week :)

stevenaia Michinaga: were you always your calm self or was it something you acquired later in life?

stevenaia Michinaga: something to answer next time we meet

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Paradise Tennant: lol always pretty calm

Paradise Tennant: :)

Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams :)

stevenaia Michinaga: night Paradise

stevenaia Michinaga: waves back