I'm not a cat person. But I was working in the yard late this afternoon and I heard a meowing. Searched for it. Coming from my neighbor's yard. The neighbor that I dislike. Black cat, obviously unhappy by the tone of its meows. Don't have to be a cat person to understand happy meow from unhappy meow. I approached cautiously. Knelt. Stretched hand ( Read more... )

Can't sleep. Too much on my head ( Read more... )

I'm fully aware that I'm probably coming off as a dick with this journal recently. That's probably not going to stop any time soon. I'm used to having things to keep my mind occupied. With the absence of television, telepphone, and internet, I'm at a loss for things that do that, and as a result things want to spill out of my brain when everyone is ( Read more... )

If you ever get the chance to see Conviction, the movie about the woman who spent most of her adult life studying to become a lawyer to free her wrongly convicted brother from a Massachusetts prison, do yourself a favor and read the IMDB trivia page for it afterward. Puts the it in a whole new category of movie, and proves that there's a right ( Read more... )

There's another reason for all of the volunteers I hadn't considered: Large organization pushing them for into it. In this case, it'd be the Southern Baptist association. I'm not going to lump this in with an individual's spiritual drive to do better for mankind. It's not. It's a group that one belongs to giving the order for its members to focus ( Read more... )

2:30 early Sunday morning. Can't sleep again. On my sister's laptop, with its aircard ( Read more... )

Hi kids ( Read more... )

Six years ago a worker at an Erica's Thrift Store in the Birmingham area dumped a cart of donated items out onto her to sort. As she digs through the stuff her hand slips into something soft and wet. She pulls the mountain of crap aside to see what's underneath this time. Is it a squirrel? Raccoon? Did some kindly old lady decide to donate a could ( Read more... )

So I said I had set aside my standards while looking for a job. That doesn't apply for fast food. Will not work fast food. Actually, won't work ANY food ( Read more... )

Awright ( Read more... )