so there's a problem I've had for years and years and...wait, no - my whole life. It gets really bad some times, and not so bad other times. It got really, really bad this past fall - bad enough that some days, I couldn't pick things up, and could barely walk. I'd get up anyway and try, because that's the "LaMere way," but...(my grandfather did ( Read more... )

Dug around and found my service records. Took my service medical records to the only place I could find that had a microfiche reader hooked up to a printer. Skimmed the records, printed things out ( Read more... )

( Just got back from an EMG, and the physician... )

I had something happen last week that caused me to need to retreat inside my head for a bit, to try and figure out my life. ( You get the rare explanation of what caused it )

Contrived...what does that even mean? The entire universe is contrived - everything is where it is because of a deliberate action that put it there. We yearn so much for things that come to us "naturally," which if we more deeply consider what we're looking for means we long for some sort of chaos. Why is that? To desire chaos is nothing short ( Read more... )

Going to be in Austin for the general Christmas-time period; if you're near there and want to hook up at some point, lemme know?

I know, wasn't much of an update on my life, eh?

I find people like to change data types, go from concrete to abstract and back to concrete, and overall come up with solutions that no longer match the problem(s ( Read more... )

Few random songs I stumbled upon this evening, circa 1992

Solemn: Unusual

Solemn: Same Damn Thing

Solemn: And

Solemn: Manager Mustard Pants

Solemn: Story of Man(Days of Old)

Chad and Brian's Stoned Campfire Songs: Dead Indians

Chad and Brian's Stoned Campfire Songs: Hamsters

First Chad, then Ricky, now Josh.

Shawn and I are the only ones left of Solemn. 4 guys that changed my world, really - they're what I look to as an example of what could be ( Read more... )

As if to be topical to my last post, a visit to the burningman page (was curious about pricing) yielded this gem as the art theme for 2009:

Art Theme: "Evolution ( Read more... )