“Now’s the perfect time. We’ve figured out the other clues, we just have to follow through on them. But they don’t have the first clue where the third clue leads, and we do. So we do the hard part first and then wipe the table with them while they’re still trying to work their way through the first two ( Read more... )

I am a social liberal. This week's election results really had me sitting back and looking at why I was so upset with the results. Then someone posted on FB that the response to Trump's election proves that liberals/democrats are the more intolerant and I realized that my upset was actually fear. So I chose to respond to that person. The OP chose ( Read more... )

Almost the one year anniversary of my "im in" post from last time. ;)

For many years (approximately 17), I have counted my blessings that my children have been healthy and intelligent. We’ve had some minor setbacks with regards to attitude, especially once we hit the teenage years, but there’s never once been something with my own children that I have to look at them and say “I just can’t relate. I have no frame of ( Read more... )

This year has started off with a number of celebrity deaths - both the famous and infamous. Lennie Bluett, Pat Harrington Jr, Frank Armitage, Florence King, Kitty Kallen, Troy Shondell, serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin, Red Simpson, Otis Clay, Nick Caldwell, Angus Scrimm, David Bowie, Michael Galeota, David Margulies, Brian Bedford, Rene Angelil, Dan ( Read more... )

Heinlein is a staple of Science Fiction. One of the Grand Masters, inventor of the waterbed and the waldo, he is sacred. There are a certain number of books - about three - that old hands will toss newbies to give them a feel for Heinlein.

Being one of the gateway books into Heinlein, The Puppet Masters is a War of the Worlds era story about an ( Read more... )

“The survey teams have been on the ground - and in the water, and in the air - for a good five years now. Nothing in any of the reports has shown anything of concern. They’ve been able to adapt to the environment, and the plants seem to be flourishing. We have a crisis here on Earth and something must be done. Why are we delaying ( Read more... )

So, I've always been the kind of person who thought that their vocation would be in some type of service.... For years, I had planned to be a teacher. Graduating my Bachelors with less than stellar grades made that nigh impossible, and then I long-term subbed for a year or so. I found out quickly that I loved teaching and the students - but I hated ( Read more... )

Playing LJ Idol while starting a new job after being out of work for 10 months? Why not?  LOL

Thank you to roina_arwen!!

This is not an entry, this is a resignation. I give.

My goal this season was to not bye out. I did that - I left kicking and screaming, voted off the island in the middle of an ongoing story.  I even survived an intersection week with agirlnamedluna as my partner ( Read more... )