I've begun purging my Facebook friends list of people that never really engaged with me or with who I had positive experiences.  Sometimes I wish I could unplug from Facebook entirely, but at the same time I wonder how I would be able to keep up with the people that I *actually* care about.

Part of this is me doing some digital housekeeping in ( Read more... )

Continuing from my previous post, here is a general list of craft and sewing projects for 2016 in order to help keep me focused.

For the Spring:

I need to work on some Scara-related stuff.

* New scara tunic out of blue and grey fabric
* Acquire chain mail shirt
* Sew a fabric phrygian cap
* Make a belt pouch?
* Make some 6-panel chests

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"Tear up your certificates and throw them to the sea,
Le'ts reclaim our innocence, and live in harmony,
We can leave the past behind, and make a brand new start,
Walk out of this lion's den before we're torn apart."

-EVE6 "Lion's Den"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK-EQSYEKsE

It's dawned on my rather strongly that the vast, vast, VAST majority of Tumblr users are hopelessly inexperienced teenagers or early 20-somethings that have absolutely no idea what they are doing with their lives, but are certain that reblogging enough animated gifs or "advice" will help them find the answer.  Here's a perfect example.  I only made ( Read more... )

Wilson are you still reading this? ;)  Love you!

I really want to quit drinking, but I'm afraid I don't know how.  Part of the issue is that people tend to assume that all you have to do is stop.  The problem is, it's not that easy.  Alcohol is addictive.  If you have an allergy to seafood, you just don't eat seafood, and it's as simple as that.  The problem is that when it comes to alcohol, your ( Read more... )

So I just finished reading "Rabbit, Run," by John Updyke.  I'll spare you a whole lot of plot details as there is a pretty good summary on the Wikipedia page, but the gist is as follows.  It's 1960 and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, formerly a high school basketball start is living with his pregnant wife and 2-year-old son in a blah town in Pennsylvania ( Read more... )

I really don't know whats wrong with me these days.  I think that I need a change in my medication.  Backstory: in 2003 I was diagnosed with some pretty severe OCD as the result of exposure to pretty grim stuff with the Arlington County Police Department when I was an intern.  Bad stuff as in the sort of thing that makes you serious contemplate ( Read more... )

Today I finished up another of the books that came to me via way of Santa Claus, and figured I would type up a few brief observations, specifically on "The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness" by Jack El-Hai on the life of Walter J. Freeman, II.


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Had to unfriend someone the other day on Facebook.  It's been a while since I had to do it based on a personal animosity rather than a simple lack of common interest.  But, in this case, I think it was well worth it.  A little back story ( Read more... )