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Hi everyone, starbase checking in here.

While I have been dying to get my computer and connection all set up, nevertheless I had an interesting experience this weekend. I'm not just moving around here and there (that is, I'm not just a pretty face!!), but rather I have also been digging around in some deep philosophy all the while I've been doing the traveling thing (Plato, and Buddhism, and Scripture, what have you).

Well this weekend it was freezing and gray, and also all apartments in Taiwan are solid concrete, painted of course, but still concrete, and all floors are hard, cold tile, you must wear shoes inside or your feet will ache something terrible. So all in all it's a truly nasty environment (and don't forget how polluted it is and all the staring people I mentioned earlier).

Well I do have a plush mattress, and a thick quilt, and an excellent reading lamp I bought, and this weekend, after frying up some victuals, I settled in deeply with my philosophical materials and just reflected my way into oblivion. Yes, I've never felt so close to just pure thought for such a long time, while chewing over the amazing complexity and insightfulness of past Masters. And in what seemed like the blink of an eye, Monday morning is here.

Well, I thought to myself, I'd like some more of that! And why was it so engrossing in pure thought? Because the environment I'm in is so bloody awful, that's why!!! So, while it borders on the famous "Idiot" parable (that being, why did the idiot hit himself on the head with a hammer? because it felt so good when he stopped!!), still, I have decide to not get a computer for another month, and in fact not touch a computer until January 12th (two days after pay day), and instead, through the infliction of lonely pain, focus on this forced closeness to truly sophisticated thought, and see where and towards what it takes my thinking.

So, that's a long winded way to say this will be my last post for five weeks! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and I'll see you all on the other side! LOL!

Cheers,

starbase