I want you to imagine a terrific expanse of yellow, and a dark man composed entirely of right angles, with the exception of his smooth, hard-hat covered head.  This man, his head surfing at an unnatural height just above his shoulders, is bent low over a dark pile, also composed of right angles, wielding some kind of tool, stabbing into the unkown.

That is what you would probably see right now if Geocities and it’s atrocious gifs were still around.  But for now we have this, and as you have probably guessed, we are under construction at the moment.  Sorry about that somewhat pretentious opening paragraph.  I warn you that there may be a lot of that in the future.

At the moment I am trying to get into contact with local religious groups and lining up my reading lists for each month.  I want to try to get all of my preliminary research out of the way before the year starts, so I’m not spending time during the year trying to prepare for the months to come.  I won’t be able to mitigate that entirely, but there is still much to be done.

The schedule probably ins’t going to change now, and I’m going to start working on the different ‘About’ pages, one about the project and one about myself.  Perhaps I can finish those this evening.

One of my old proffessors has been invited to a Buddhist ceremony tomorrow morning, and he invited me to come along.  It is the celebration of the Amitbha Buddha’s birthday, a key figure in Pure Land Buddhism, at the Golden Buddha monastery. I was looking forward to it until I realized how early I need to wake up tomorrow.  Sounds like a ludicrous reason, but I really am not a morning person.

More to come.  So much more.