When I was in my formative years living in Colorado, I would come home from school and turn on the TV, waiting for "Star Trek" to come on at 4 pm. I don't know if it was partially because that I went to school with a bunch of Air Force brats at the end of the lunar exploration era, but "Star Trek" quickly became must-see TV for me. My favorite ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post about the paranormal investigation I attended in Independence about a month ago. A couple of friends were running the thing and shepherded the 15 of us through several hours of checking out the 1859 Old Jackson County Jail ( Read more... )

Happy 8th birthday to Pirate Princess Katie! I love you very much and hope you're enjoying the hot air balloons in New Mexico.

Last weekend I went to Detroit for Detcon1, the North American version of Worldcon when WC is overseas ( Read more... )

Going back to my previous dream post, I decided to log the various locations I put myself when I have brain weasel dreams. These are the most common -- I've "lived" in these multiple times; that is, I've moving back into these locations where I've previously "lived ( Read more... )

I've figured out over the years that I have three basic categories of dreams. I can usually tell what type of dreams I've had based on how I feel when I wake up, even if I can't remember the dreams themselves ( Read more... )

I had a job interview in Detroit last Wednesday, and while I was in the middle of the interview I heard my phone buzz. When I got out of the interview, I checked the phone and it was from KC. I called back, discovered that it was a recruiter and set up a meeting for Friday. Friday morning I talked with the recruiter and in the afternoon I had an ( Read more... )

I've also been doing this the last couple of weeks.


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Happy 7th birthday, Princess Katie the Pirate. I love you and miss you very much.

When I was diagnosed as a type II diabetic back in the early 2000s, I started exercising on a regular basis, doing mostly the elliptical machine until I lost enough weight to use the treadmill without killing myself. In 2004 I signed up for my first 5K, the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot around the Sprint campus and Black & Veatch ( Read more... )