Can someone send me or point me to the source of "The Longest Meme?"

I think I want to do it.

I shut your heart down for repair
Turned away and left you there
Told all our friends how much I care
About you

Maybe I'll write the rest of it sometime

Not positive, but pretty sure I graduated from college twenty years ago yesterday,

I'm unemployed.

Yay. :|

I'm going to make the pompous claim that this may be the most important post I've ever written. So pay attention to it.

I have an unsolicited word of advice and it goes out to three categories of people. If you're in a new relationship, if you've been in a relationship for a long time, or if you ever think you might be in a relationship, heed this.

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Just had the strangest conversation with God. Probably the first one in over ten years. The effect of one's imagination at 2:45am? Perhaps. But just as deeply profound and out-of-left-field as I've come to expect.

To be honest, what it did was bring me from not being sure what to do to being sure I don't know what to do.

I'm certain that I'm ( Read more... )

Every day, on my way to and from work, I drive over what I thought was an abandoned set of train tracks.

It is not abandoned.

Oui, Don Quierre
We're jiving cattle acts [axe?] in our jeans
And we're gonna be lawyers
Lawyers!!!

...Wait. What's she saying??!?

"The British had been outwitted, humiliated. The greatest military power on earth had been forced to retreat by an army of amateurs..."
--David McCullough, "John Adams," 76.

Two hundred and thirty six years later, we Americans are still rather proud of that little accomplishment in the last days of the Winter of 1775-76, perhaps more so than any ( Read more... )

That McCullough can be a quarter of a millennium removed from his subjects and yet still make me think he is sitting in the room with them astounds me.

Authors and time travelers. Would that I could be one or the other. Or both. In either case, I might do well to take up wizardry first.

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1. Our heater/blower stopped working the other day when it was hot. Not a big deal. It only got up to 78°F. But now a cold snap is coming.

2. In order to repair the blower, I need to clear out the garage so the repairman can access the furnace. It's a disaster out there.

3. I can't think of anything else to complain about. I'm usually more creative ( Read more... )