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... )

I've spend most of my adult life moving.  Some have had it worse than I have I know.  But I've never really had a move like this before.  First of all, I actually have time to plan a little.  All of my past moves happened within the month.  And I can say thankfully this is the case since I've never done a move like this one.  I don't know exactly ( Read more... )

Cataclysms make me tick.  I don't know if it comes from growing up in a place where 'national emergencies' are commonplace or what but I seem to thrive on a certain amount of adversity.  I feel strangely invigorated ( Read more... )

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

Here's a picture I took of what is essencially my back yard.

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Child's plaything with steel roots
perminant until not
fate and wind need you elsewhere

Sweat
A thousand tools
two thousand screws
two swings two rings and a trapeeze

When that first big thump came
Silly spider on my screwdriver
you stayed in your hiding place
you would have done better
to follow my example
and move.