I have reached a point in my life where I want less stuff. I'm moving again and just spent the last week sifting through my meager collection of belongings and distilling it further. Three boxes of books to be sold/donated, three boxes of crap to be shipped to a landfill. four boxes to travel with me. One box to rule them all and in the darkness ( Read more... )

Wherein our hero endures diverse unpleasantries and is rendered unhappy ( Read more... )

So near the bottom of this article: www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html you find this line:

It’s this inability to conceive of alternative approaches that leads to despair.

Interesting idea, really... but it's broken in a way. The article describes the creative process in terms of neuroactivity as a combination of divergent ( Read more... )

Yep, time for my yearly rant about the evils of springtime, you can go back and read the past ones if you want. Most of them are tagged with 'Depression' so enjoy. In fact, I really don't have anything new to offer here, so I'll just hit the main points ( Read more... )

French cheese isn't something I approach without fear. Many of them suffer from one or both of the cheese flavors I can't stand. The classic 'bleu' cheese and it's relatives taste moldy... like green fuzzy bread with butter on it. The other is the flavor in the soft cheeses like brie or neufchatel. It takes like milk a few days too old to drink. I ( Read more... )

Set the eay-back machine for august '05... and BOOM, I'm in the office getting a new script from my shrink for a different formulation of my standard happy-pill... should smooth things out a bit more, and I'm game ( Read more... )

I'm not dead... but my computer was rendewred into an expensive brick by cruel fate. A replacement is imenent, which brings me much joy ( Read more... )

I really really need to de-stress... and it's difficult this time through. I still have this "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me!" sort of vibe running me, and it is only getting worse. I need a break and, predictably, I don't get one... Oh well.. once more into the breach, dear friends, and hopefully something entertaining next time.

We lost annother one. I seldom feel much for the loss of a single life, so many deaths happen just at random that no single person’s passing makes much of a difference. But because of my own issues, when someone I held in respect and admiration falls by their own hand, it tends to cause a little more of a ripple in my mind ( Read more... )

... Or not. Lately I’ve needed to express my general distaste for a number of things, but if I really look at things, I personally don’t have a whole lot to complain about. I am fortunate in many ways, but since these are not problems I don’t really concern myself over them. But I do need to consider.

So let’s see what we have...

• I’m a great deal ( Read more... )