I think I need to resume this in an effort to preserve my sanity.

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A friend and I were recenly chatting when we agreed that we've reached the point in our lives where we now catch ourselves using the phrase, "Twenty years ago" without any exaggeration.  And that kinda sucks.  Sure, it's part of life, but things from 20 years ago start taking a different shape in your memory.  You begin wondering how much of the ( Read more... )

I've always sought to bring an open mind into every situation I find myself in.  Part of that means that I'm often slow to judge people until I actually get to know them, not just a trait or two about them ( Read more... )

That song from the mid-90's by that group Dog's Eye View.   Some guy going on about how he can fuck up everything good.  I've been convinced for a while now that the song was originally written about me ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the history of New England, the Puritans disappeared.  But then the Catholic Church moved into the region to take over.  And what has resulted is that the Catholic Church much have figured out how to more efficiently and effectively instill a sense of fucked up morality into the masses ( Read more... )

So today, while having only a barely-related conversation (and I mean barely), a coworker comes up with a comment to the effect that most women associate sex with a sign of love -- but let's face it, you do it because it feels good ( Read more... )

A strange thought today:  are you watching Rose going through the same things we did?  Even more strangely, have you, or will you experience watching her have the exact same thing we did with each other?  And if so, what do you do?  Do you share your sage words of experience, or do you let her come to the same, inevitable resoultion on her own?

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I've decided that I need to start maintaining this thing again.  Realistically, I know that time will most likely prevent me from keeping it up to the degree that I'd like, but that's part of the problem lately ( Read more... )

Today at work one of my staffers called me to share a part of a "letter" she received.

The letter is a 15-20 page diatribe from a bipolar alcoholic.  (That's completely true, no exaggeration or speculation).  It was mostly a rant about how he might seem simple-minded because he has little to no tolerance for stupidity or incompetence.  He commented ( Read more... )

I'm reading the stories about the millions of pissed-off Muslims who are in an uproar about a cartoonist's depiction of Mohammed (forgive the likely misspelling) wearing a bomb-shaped turban. One thing I find interesting about it is that apparently the outrage isn't over the turban, but just the fact that someone had the gall to draw a picture ( Read more... )