wherein our hero stumbles and begins to beat himself up about it, but then is reminded that there are people who have it worse...people close to him.

I've made a few big fuck ups recently, and while I wait to see what happens when the chickens come home to roost and the dust clears, I just hope I don't end up penniless and homeless with nothing to do or say to redeem myself ( Read more... )

I'm feeling lame today.

I left my phone at home to purposefully distance myself from the damn thing.

I'm thinking about shaving off my beard.

I was wondering, if you were gonna drive from Detroit to Tacoma, what would you say you HAD to see, or where would you HAVE to stop on your way?

So, since the 1990's the new "Culture War" in America has been raging. It started, many people agree, with Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican National convention, where he said, "The agenda [the Clintons] would impose on America - abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious ( Read more... )

There are many avenues that bloggers can take these days. There is always the self-published blog, through LJ or Wordpress or what have you, that seems to follow cycles not unlike the moon, sometimes going weeks without an update, other times being updated several times a day, and everything in between. I hazard to guess that "real" bloggers ( Read more... )

So I am still worried about getting laid off, but not as much as I was. I'm sitting in a dark, tidy apartment (the clean apartment should get here tomorrow...) listening to a play list on my iPod featuring Steve Earle, Justin Earle (Steve's son) and Stacey Earle (Steve's sister), creatively named "Earle Family Singers". Right now I'm listening to ( Read more... )

I'm in an okay place right now...bringing some much needed structure to my life that had began to crumble lately.

I'm still super worried about my position at the County. There are fears of lay offs, even though the County Executive swears he doesn't want to lay any one off and is going to try to avoid it, I see them as inevitable. The city may ( Read more... )

IF you accept the idea that the cutest part of a kitty is their tummy, and then you look at a curled up sleeping cat, you will be able to witness the cuteness black hole. See, when a cat curls up, they increase the cuteness density of their tummy. At that point, the cat's body is the accretion disc of cuteness, circling around the focal point of ( Read more... )

It's interesting, to me, how many fights I lose to my co-workers each day by just electing not to spend calories on the issue. It's a bright, sunny day, here in a brick building, slowly being heated by the sun, and the windows are closed so tight, you'd think we're preparing to submerge and sink the Lusitania ( Read more... )