Got outta massachusetts -- and justin time (those punk highway patrol gave me a bogus ticket which I forgot to contest...and wouldn't back away from their frivolous claim that I owed them money.) So, I returned to my home state, North Dakota. I suppose I'm glad my family moved away when I was ten, met some wonderful people in Winchester, and its ( Read more... )

I'm off to work soon...overnight, then ewalk in the morning ( Read more... )

Tried for my first time to time the paddling just right to meet a crashing wave that would bring me and Alexis' board closer to shore. Disappointedly, I was not able to get any sort of choreography going to perch myself atop the surf board, riding waves at North Beach near Hampton ( Read more... )

just narrowly missed a major disaster -- the online credit card payment was due by 3 pm, and the time was 5 when I got home from work -- so scrambling to make the phone payment by 6pm (which I didn't know until just now was the deadline for same day debit pay) was stressful. I thought I was going to have to pay late fees...gosh ( Read more... )

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The fruit of new beginnings ( Read more... )

There are a lot of people in Boston. The trains have been crowded. yeah, but I still love the T, though I am disenchanted with the commuter rail for charging an exhorbitant surcharge, when the PA announcement rang ten minutes before actually departure with a warning of 'last call for train to lowell.' I was in line, and should have stayed there ( Read more... )

another night, another night ( Read more... )

Spent about twelve hours in bed last night through this afternoon. Gearing up for this week, reflecting on the past week, the past year. I am tortured by myself sometimes, when I devote myself to such periods of reflection, but this time I frequently caught myself before heading down those self-destructive or hyper-critical paths. Thanks be to ( Read more... )

There lives, within each of us, temptation and salvation. The debate I have is whether the excesses to which I am prone must be addressed from the inside without making an attempt to limit my personal exposure to "temptations", or whether I should not crusade against characteristics of our 'free' society that I find unsettling, unsightly, and ( Read more... )