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As Livejournal is a dead form of social media (in North America anyway) I am often more comfortable posting things here than I am on other social media platforms.  I'm still saying something publically, and due to the nature of the internet permanently, but I am saying it to a much smaller audience.  I am particularly more comfortable writing here ( Read more... )

If something sounds too good to be true it usually is.  That line, in various forms, is a bit of popular wisdom that is usually found to be true ( Read more... )

Perhaps my SCA friends will recognize this emotion ( Read more... )

  From time to time I dream about two cities.  The first is simply a generic city.  It is nowhere in particular.  It is distinctive though.  This city is endless.  No matter how far I travel in the city I never come outside.  Hallways open on to rooms.  Rooms on to corridors.  Corridors on to stairwells.  Stairwells on to galleries. The sky is ( Read more... )

There is a joke told to describe the technical support customers often receive from Microsoft ( Read more... )

I have NOT posted this to Facebook because a civil conversation about politics is rarely possible there ( Read more... )

Odd dreams last night.
1.  I was fighting in Crown tournament in the SCA.  It was the second round and I had won my first fight.  That is the opposite of what happened the last time I fought in that tourney.  As people were drawing slots for the second round I was trying to not be seen.  Somehow I figured I wasn't really supposed to be there.
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Reading my previous post about driving I recognize that I am a boring writer.  I imagined that post as a lighthearted entertaining, possibly kinda funny thing to read.  Yet by the time I was halfway through what was in my head I realized just how dull it reads.  "write what you know"  I know about long multi-state drives.  Somehow that never made ( Read more... )

I am accustomed to making long drives.  Driving six hours to get some where is a short trip in my mind.  If it doesn't require driving at least all night and a good portion of the day then it is not really a long drive ( Read more... )