Not sure how many of you guys still read this, but even if it's just me for now, I think I'm okay with that. =) This journal was really only started for my own benefit... but so much time has passed that I start to wonder what's been buried beneath the layers of time from now and back when I used to use this space to spill out everything that's ( Read more... )

Yes, it's been a while since I've started using this regularly. Livejournal's been around for me since 2001, so there's a natural attachment to something I've been with so long. Besides, it never hurts to catalog one's thoughts somewhere for posterity's sake ( Read more... )

Well guys, our dear friend slyfoot has left us. I'll miss him.

As I've taken up new responsibilities, I've neglected older ones. Strange, perhaps to think of this blog as a responsibility, but I believe that a very big part of who I am today owes itself to the many years I've poured my thoughts on here. Private, public , ecstatic, remorseful, proud, ( Read more... )

“Michael’s family and fans will be horrified when they realise the appalling state he was in."

Careful before you click. I wouldn't even be posting this, except for the fact that a downfall of such magnitude demands our reflection on what can be learned from all this:

"...anorexic Jackson had been eating just one meagre meal a day. Pathologists ( Read more... )

I'm back on U.S. soil!!! :D ( Read more... )

17 more days.

If there ever were a single piece of advice I'd give someone regarding today's interconnected new-media-driven world, It'd be this:

Gauge your environment, and then select some kind of audio/visual recording device ( Read more... )

If ever one could want to escape to a place where one might sit in silence, away from even the faintest reminder of life in the domestic continent.... this could well be it. I don't see much of the world that lies "outside the wire," but a few times, I've seen local children play while tending to a flock of sheep or goats ( Read more... )

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So, word has it that Barack Obama has been invited to the University of Notre Dame to speak at this year's commencement ceremony; he will also be "the ninth U.S. president to be awarded an honorary degree by the University and the sixth to be the Commencement speaker ( Read more... )

Just crossed the mid-way point. There's a fine line between thinking, "Congratulations, you're half-way there," and "Congratulations, your deployment is twice as long as you've experienced so far ( Read more... )