My interest in LJ has finally petered out. I haven't posted here in months.

So, friend me on Facebook. I've actually made a few blog-type posts now that they've allowed content more than 140 characters.

https://www.facebook.com/reric.smith

LJ has been a crazy journey for me. I've made some awesome friends among the misfits out there and participated ( Read more... )

I took part in a Google+ Hangout last night. Really easy to set up. All I had to do was join in, and the all-powerful Google set it up for me.

http://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/res/talkvideo/hangouts/

Now I know what the notebook paper-sized hole above my screen is for. There I was, blue-white light shining on my pallid face and homeless person ( Read more... )

My neighbor Joe and I got to DBSA (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) meetings. He's Bi, I'm Dep, although our facilitators instruct us to say "I am a person with XXX" instead of "I am XXX," so as to identify ourselves as people instead of diseases ( Read more... )

That's the title of a 30 Rock episode that had Margaret Cho as Kim Jong Il doing the weather report.

I wrote a little story about the late North Korean dictator in tribute.

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My mind is muddled this morning, as I have just had the most exhausting dream ever ( Read more... )

Welp, I'm not going to make the 50K word count in Nano this year because I've already finished my story. I had the outline already made, and thought it would save me some desperation, but instead it made it too easy to get the story told, and so I finished with 18K words to spare. Still, it's a first draft, and I can go back and improve on it and ( Read more... )

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OK, I'm a little mystified. I walked the dogs yesterday to the corner store. Coming back, we passed by a field in my neighborhood. It looks like it used to be a cattle field, as it has a barbed wire fence and gate, but it's overgrown now. I saw an animal in it looking back at us. At first, I thought it was a fox, as I had heard there were foxes in ( Read more... )

Anybody else doing NaNoWriMo this year? I'm doing another Dr. Who fanfic with Google Docs. Holla if you want to be linked to it ( Read more... )