Hey...a friend of mine set me up with richmackin.com (dot org went stale and got cyber pirated, please do NOT go there). For lack of a coherent plan, I am using it as a blog as much as anything, but as my life gets in order (my room is almost done and 6 years of storage boxes are almost gone through) I should start a-writing and doing art again. ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, LJ. I have been lax in updates. Heck, I haven't even updated the website my friend Gray set up for me...been busy and with minimal computerage access. (Ironically, we got house wifi that works great just as I needed to pack all my belongings ( Read more... )

Hmm, apparently I haven't posted for 17 weeks. Not sure how much I'll post in the future, either...especially since I've being laid off for the 3rd time in my life. But, here's my plans for the summer for those interested ( Read more... )

So, I'm at work, and Maia is looking for Samantha. She asks me if I saw Sam, and when I say "no", Maia asks if I really saw her, and if Sam just asked me not to tell her. Now, the truth is that I DID NOT see Sam at all, but I guess if I did and she did ask me not to tell, I wouldn't, which renders the whole credibility issue moot ( Read more... )

"Life is pretty simple. You get out of bed in the morning, you do the
things you have to do, and if you have time, you do some things you
want to do. You try not to hurt people and you help them if you can.
The you go to bed."- Dean Sluyter, The Zen Commandments

Oh, duh...

An important concept is that in addition to the Portland wedding on August 10, we more than likely would be travelling cross country and having a more heavily attended, but less ceremonious event in my home town of Norwalk, CT. That there would be more open invitish...think about it.

Okay,so, I got engaged. A few months later, we realize this means we need to actually PLAN the wedding ( Read more... )

Story- Boy rides bike. Boy meets car. Boy does not want to meet car any closer, so swerves out of car's way on bike. Bike tire gets caught in streetcar track. Boy falls on bike. Handlebar stabs boy. Boy's belly looks like this (hard to see- 3" of swelling not normally there.)


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