Since I've just had my first child (November 27th!), I think it’s time to officially put my LiveJournal to bed. I get my political and meme fixes on Facebook now, like the rest of the sheep, and nearly everybody that I figuratively “grew up with” got off this platform a decade ago. I'm pretty sure the last holdouts to even watch this space were ( Read more... )

Greetings!  I'm Josh.  A long, long time ago I started this blog as a way to chat with family and friends about my life in college without having to actually call and talk to them one at a time.  It gave me an outlet to vent about my frustrations and surprises, and I got to know a lot of interesting people.  Then, after a few years, people started ( Read more... )

( The Survey of the Year! )

( The Survey of the Year! )

For my birthday this year, I'm going to meet Nobuo Uematsu. This is a man who shaped the music of my childhood. Even though I didn't own a real Final Fantasy game until college, the iconic music of Final Fantasy "1", "2", and "3" haunted my dreams ( Read more... )

( I'm the kind of person who will wait until January 1st to do a New Year's Meme even though I know none of my answers will change in the last week. )

Tomorrow I'll have been married to Steph for four years. Today, we've been romantically involved for six and a half years. I still don't know why she puts up with me, the unsocial lunatic that I am, but I'm glad she loves me.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of my job at Shelter. That means I've been employed longer than I was at Truman--even longer if you don't count summers. I'm having a little trouble wrapping my mind around the concept!

( Customary Meme )

I don't have posting access to Livejournal from work anymore. It's interesting, because I can still access the website and post comments, but I can't post or update entries. That's pretty fine-grained control on their filtering software. So, one of my major methods to let off steam is unavailable to me during the time I generally think about ( Read more... )