I don't talk about it much, but in a previous life (as i think of it), I was in the Air Force.  Well, a lot of people probably know I was in the military, but I was a technical person.   I started out as what was called an "instrumentation mechanic" but what it boiled down to was I was an R&D electronics technician.  Instrumentation is used to ( Read more... )

This is the title of one of my messages to a friend in response to his comment about only living life once and enjoying it.  My friend and I went back and forth about our short but confused romantic history (which really only amounted to one date).

After having apologized to him for not wanting to be friends with him after we decided (well ( Read more... )

....because if I don't, I'm headed down a personally self-destructive path.  It's not something easily explained, nothing to do with drugs or alcohol or any other addictive substance.

There is a dearth of close friends in my life, much of my own doing.  I've been working on that over the last few months, and even longer - I am fortunate to ( Read more... )