Wow LJ. We have been together quite awhile now.  I feel bad about neglecting you lately.

For awhile there I was pretty good at regular updates (whining).  What I lacked in quality I made up in quantity.  Fine - that’s kind of the American way really.

The times that I write are typically the times when I have the least to write about: down times, ( Read more... )

In my memory, yesterday was a three-ply day.  And it was at least as long as two normal days ( Read more... )

A colleague of mine once said that whatever you are, as you get older, you become more of.  Brace yourselves.

On a related note, I'm turning 40 pretty soon.  I think it's high time for a midlife crisis.

And with that in mind...

Skiing:  I've ordered and received my 'randonée skis'.  Skis without bindings are not unlike boards.  I hope I chose well ( Read more... )

I don't know. I must have forgot you were here. I didn't stop caring; that's not my style. I got distracted and that is.

Funerals:

My best friend's father didn't make it through the year. We buried him this fall. He was diagnosed with lung cancer shortly after his retirement party. He didn't even get to be retired for a whole year. Everyone he ( Read more... )

yoinked from garden_faerie because it looked fun.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?

Graduated from college .

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I resolved to make no more resolutions so... YEA!

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?

I don't know yet, but staying home sounds just fine to me.   ( Read more... )

Is it a blog or is in an LJ?  Whatever.  I've decided to vote for change.  I've decided to apply Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 7th law of writing with style:

Pity your readers.

To my LJ.  Aren't there enough whiny, bitchy, camwhore, self-absorbed, megalomaniac, depressive blogs in the world?  Easy enough.  I've decided that if I'm serious about the LJ, to stop ( Read more... )

I just remembered something. This was a title for a song I almost wrote. I guess that's one thing I can do: I can write a song ( Read more... )

Maybe if I write all of this down it will help. Read on if and only if you're that bored.

1. I want to learn to Spanish. This is hard though. It's hard to learn a language the DE way. There's also a lot of material and it's pretty fast-paced. I figure either I'll actually learn Spanish or I'll pass the class but I'm not likely to do both. ( Read more... )

So, here's where I sit right now: On my bum.

I'm on a photo kick lately so if any of you (numberless masses) who regularly read my journal are on slow connections and would prefer I put these behind a cut, don't be shy, let me know!

Paul Simon rocksI really do have a Nikon camera. I really do love to take photographs. If I look back at all ( Read more... )

Well, for those of you who haven't heard, my grandfather has died ( Read more... )