Some of my friends at school have gotten together the past several years to form a team for the Relay for Life event here in New Braunfels. Last year they all talked about what a great time they'd had, so I decided to try it this year. For those of you who don't know, RLF is an event taking place next weekend in which teams of eight to fifteen ( Read more... )

By the way, did I mention that we're going to San Francisco this weekend? Which just happens to be Pride weekend? Oh, yeah. We've got floor space (well, I guess couch space) there, and we've really wanted to go for a while. Plus, it's summer, and we wanted to travel. So we're going ( Read more... )

A while back, my mom told me about a Web site that she thought I ought to go visit. Well, it always takes me some time to follow my mom's advice, but I finally went. Yeah, it actually is pretty cool ( Read more... )

I hate driving around what should be beautiful landscapes and seeing trash blowing in every nook and cranny. What makes up a lot of that trash? Pesky plastic shopping bags. Ubiquitous, unnecessary, resource-using plastic bags. HEB, Wal-Mart, convenience stores, they're everywhere! Buy one item and you get a bag without question. Buy many ( Read more... )

The woman and I are attempting to plan our Whirlwind European Vacation for this summer! We've decided that since we may not actually get to travel to Europe more than once, we want to do more than just Spain. We want it all. Now we have to decide how to get it, and how much of "all" is plausible. So those of you who've been, or those of you who ( Read more... )

Thinking about things last night while not sleeping. This crossed my mind and I wanted to remember it:
"Crying is like masturbation. If someone tells you they never do it, s/he is lying."
Carry on with your day.

I need to post about Flipside, but I'm going to have to write it in a paper journal first. The computer is in the middle of the room with the two chain smokers and the TV blaring the hunting and fishing channel 24-7. This is not the ideal environment to ruminate on such a spiritual experience. This is just to remind me to post, I suppose.

This morning on my way to work I heard a story about a music festival that aims to bring together people of many disparate religions in a dialogue through sacred music. I thought this was a great idea, especially in times like these. Then, I heard the music. It was, to borrow a phrase from dear Safetygoth, soul-tearingly beautiful. Hearing this ( Read more... )

This is funny, and if some of you think hard enough, you might figure out why:
( Slut Meme )

Bandwagon, here I come... (from lancehunter and before that from Zotl ( Read more... )