I miss posting here. I miss the community, and this way of connecting with people. The internet isn't what it was ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I was bothered by what seemed a very basic question: Why does everything exist? More specifically, why isn't there just nothingness? After all, nothingness is certainly simpler than any other configuration of things that might turn out to be -- so why is there, instead, the endlessly vast and intricate complexity of phenomena that ( Read more... )

I stopped by the cafeteria at work this morning, as I often do. It takes them about 15 minutes to make the veggie omelet I usually order. They had a TV on, tuned to CNN, which I watched while waiting for my breakfast. For the entire time that I was there, CNN was only covering one top story: a newly drafted football player kissed his boyfriend ( Read more... )

LJ is apparently dead. I write this assuming it will never be read. Nevertheless, I favor LJ as compared with other social media sites, and therefore, I vote with my feet. Post I shall ( Read more... )

After a whole summer's worth of pestering, I finally dragged Kane into going hiking. We were initially contemplating Monadnock NH, but that's a bit of a drive from here... and so would require waking early, and planning to drive the return trip after the hike was over. Since neither of us felt up to that, and neither of us has hiked recently, we ( Read more... )

Behind the link you'll find several pictures from the storm today...

( Snowstorm )

I'm typing as the numbness fades from my fingers ( Read more... )

This will be somewhat brief, as I am writing from the office ( Read more... )

Long story short... my stomach problems have intensified significantly. My abdomen hurts most of the time, I can't eat much even with herbal treatments, food feels like its getting caught on something in the middle of my stomach... and in general, I suspect something is rather wrong ( Read more... )

I took today off to catch up on sleep. I got little last night ( Read more... )