Open Buddha

R and I went to our friend Brandy Williams' (http://www.brandywilliams.org/)
book release party last night for her new book. This was on Capitol Hill in
Seattle. I bought R a copy of the book for Christmas and she's begun reading it
lately. I may use some of the exercises in it with the guys for the prison
Wiccan work that I do.

While there, we ran into a friend from Portland, who decided to attend. She
was visiting another friend in town and she introduced me to some of the other
Reclaiming people that she knows locally. Sarastro and Sunnie were there as well
as a few other locals that we know. Afterwards, Sarastro, Sunnie, R and I went
to a Thai restaurant down the street and had fairly good food and chatted for a
while.

I'm feeling a bit under the weather so I'm wondering if either Scott (http://www.scottstearns.com)
or the Dread Pirate Doug gave me one of their many diseases this week. For the
majority of the last two days at work, we attended leadership training that was
organized by the head of our group. They took a number of different classes or
exercises and did a kind of "best of" program in order to help raise the
leadership skill in our organization. Overall, I felt that the classes were
fairly useful but it takes a lot out of people to sit in training for five hours
one day and about eight the next day. The first day I was sitting at the "sick"
table so I wonder if I picked up something…

Monday will be an internal test conference at work which leaves me feeling a
bit under the gun if I want to keep up on what's going on but not be working on
e-mail from home all weekend or something.

I did pick up World of Warcraft this week after certain
coworkers kept telling me how cool it is to play. I must admit, as massively
multiplayer games go, it is actually pretty good. I haven't felt like I was
simply killing bunnies for forever like Asheron's Call and others made me
feel. I have to ration my play a bit since I am still studying and preparing to
write papers for my degree program and I can't allow work or playing online
games to let me get behind. It's fun enough though.