Sorry I've been AWOL for a while--besides the major thunderstorm on Friday that left us without power for 26 hours, I've just been largely unmotivated to do extracurricular stuff beyond the daily grindI keep thinking of a quote I stumbled across in some of the papers I was scanning [I'm sure this doesn't go against the NDA since I'm re-acquiring ( Read more... )

I'm not cutting any of this to be obnoxiousmake sure at least some of it catches your eye. If you don't like that, I reiterate that you can unfollow/filter me out. Would have liked to post something fun again like yesterday's, but it's hard to find the material lately ( Read more... )

AAGH, why do I use the web to post entries?! ...at least Firefox saves my drafts DX Ugh!

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A subject I did not "bring to top" prior to now ( Read more... )

Remember that bit about starting my quest anew? 9_9 ["Some people when faced with the end of a journey simply decide to begin anew I guess."]


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My last solved acrostic triggered a particular point of interest, one that's obvious to anyone who's been reading my writings [all one of you]:Pity the poor toad.... this inoffensive and beneficial little creature has been regarded at best as downright ugly and at worst as vile and loathsome. Even frogs have fared far better; they, at least, ... [ ( Read more... )

On that feeling like a bad person bit I mentioned before [too lazy to link, just scroll back some days], it's justifiiable that I could feel good when friends of mine are going through a crisis,* because their life is theirs and mine is mine, and why should my[/anyone else's] life be brought down because someone else's[/my] life is going through a ( Read more... )

First off, on the way home, I was behind this other car by about two car lengths when *FOOMP!* the car's hood popped up and nearly fell off =O =O =O No one was hurt [especially not me], but... bizarre! O_O

--I'm also now paranoid of my car experiencing such a spontaneous breakdown, but I'm prolly not going to ACCIDENTALLY pop the engine latch =p ( Read more... )

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I've written all this, and y'all will just breeze on past it anyway... oh well XB~~~

( On plumbers who are not Italian )

A story my father told me not long ago*--perhaps a twice-told tale but relevant to this post:
*meaning, after I moved outUpon purchasing our family's house, my father started finishing the basement with the intention of it being a playroom for me [and, prospectively, my brother], though he also began a wet bar for the things wet bars do. Because my ( Read more... )