I'm functionally over my funk from the last posts, in part due to YET ANOTHER Internet outage--this time blamed on old wiring or other?--that forced me to find more productive uses for my time... I finished a rough run cycle [and started a "gun cycle"] and almost-but-not-quite recreated the BGM themes Hohenheim had failed to save on the last backup ( Read more... )

So these came in:


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So I already am not sure about this year on a coupla counts--par for the course with any fresh start, I think, despite my regular interest in them--but at least I can say I did not make a pact with the other co-owner of my business to kill ourselves in our hotel room after losing our four million dollar lawsuit ( Read more... )

See, of COURSE they start posting the insanely-hard-to-find DragonQuest [Abel Yuusha] cels on eBuy now that I'm unemployed! XB but at the moment I'm trying to distance myself from a full day of Puzzle Quest =p though for most of it I was fighting Puzzle Quest hangover even while playing.Oh, I solved my "can you get a hangover without getting drunk ( Read more... )

There is a prevailing theme in my stories linking self-worth and martyrdom--maybe not initially, but progressively through any individual thread. A symptom of my own mopiness that there are people out there surviving admirably through very troubling ordeals while I sit on the sidelines and do nothing? [even with the realization, usefully, I can do ( Read more... )

I've been between moods--as usual--with the normal conflicts between "I'm so sad that I will never follow in my parents' footsteps--waitmebbeit'snottoolate!!!1" and "'Let's have a baby' is NOT a suggestion on equal footing as 'Let's go see a movie tonight' XC" that invade my brain when hormones run rampant. It's times like these that make me even ( Read more... )

My co-workers are pissing me off almost to the breaking point, but there's a huge reason I haven't spoken up about the matter... it's my own damn problem.

Once, in youth group [fancy me attending church? ...ah, that was another age], we watched Jacob Have I Loved with the advance warning that there would be a character we would be inclined to hate ( Read more... )

I have regularly [I hesitate to say "always"] refrained from ever speaking in terms of political or social oneness, predominantly because I know now more than ever that forcing people to think similarly will only bring dischord and resentment. In particular, I gave up trying to rule the world, not only because once upon a time I made the mistake of ( Read more... )

Since settling down a bit from post-work winding down time, my ire has taken a slight dip... however, I do want to get it on the record, because the frustration is only building up without putting down some kind of gauge to show, "Look, here's where things were, and here's where they are now... better, no?" [even if it isn't better ( Read more... )