Welcome to my Friday:
*  I just realized how long I've really been away from LJ because I looked at my previous post and noticed that apparently I'd completely forgotten about the concept of putting a long post behind a cut. Sorry 'bout that.
*  I was out back just now and I saw a female cardinal and a male cardinal flirting with each other: the ( Read more... )

I go through phases in my never-ending quest to acquire music. Sometimes I have a couple of albums kicking around my hard drive or shelf that I need to review and decide whether or not they're keepers. At other times it gets to be dozens. Right now it's getting ridiculous though. I just checked my "to review" folder on my fileshare drive and there' ( Read more... )

Okay, if weekends are meaningless when you're unemployed -- and they are -- then how do Mondays still suck a golf ball through a garden hose?

Ah, life is so full of mysteries. If only I didn't want to beat half of them to death with their own shoes.

The following three thoughts have been bouncing around in my head lately. The last one being an Eddie Izzard quote and the other two being who knows what ( Read more... )

I just saw the weirdest thing down the street from my house on the way back from the grocery store.

There was this person -- I couldn't tell if it was a tall woman or a guy with long hair -- standing in the middle of the desert, with their pants down around their knees, turning in a circle over and over again at a medium pace, while waving around ( Read more... )

Hey guys. So yeah, I'm slowly sinking in a sea of tasks, chores, errands, appointments, etc. I feel like I'm slipping into a black hole of obligation. This has got to stop. And thus I turn to you, my LJ friends, to throw me a shovel ( Read more... )

If you didn't already know (which I doubt knowing the demographics of my flist), today is the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade which has ever since protected a woman's right to an abortion in the United States. For the last few weeks I've been waiting to say something about this being a male myself and knowing what so ( Read more... )

Hey, guys. Happy Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

So I was reading the news stories about Baby Jessica. Do you guys remember "Baby" Jessica McClure, the little girl who got trapped at the bottom of a well back in the late 1980s? Well, today is the 20th anniversary of her rescue ( Read more... )

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