Dunno why, but decided to log into LJ today.  Been a while.

Surprised this thing is still...well...a thing.

Re-read a lot of posts from about 20 years ago.  Geez.

Anyone else still around here?

-Az

...is this thing still on?

Been nearly 7 years since my last post on LJ.

Anyone still use this?

Been a while since I updated here.

Today is Pi day.  3.1415 (March 14th, 2015).  It is also the day my "little girl", Tori, is getting married.

I wish her and Morgan a lifetime of happiness.  Or at least the ability to not kill each other.

-Az

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After 20+ years of having long hair, and as I have gotten older, losing much of that hair, I decided it was time to go.  I've been thinking for a few years now that by my 45th birthday, I wanted to shave it bald.

Today, I did that.

Feels GREAT!

Don't get me ( Read more... )

Man...what I day. 40 people (including me) laid off from Cox; a coworker at Cox died at home last night; only good radio station in ATL (Project 9-6-1) was changed to Power 96.1 playing stupid top 40 / hip hop crap. What else happened today in ATL? :-|

-Az

Tori and I went this past Saturday down to Aaron's Amphitheater in Atlanta and saw Iron Maiden!   Alice Cooper was the opening act.  Was probably the best concert I have ever been to...

Took several photos with my crappy "point and shoot" camera and my 'droid phone.   Venue didn't allow cameras with detachable lenses, so I had to leave my nice Canon ( Read more... )

"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!"

-- Londo in "The Parliament of Dreams"


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10 years ago today.  Hard to believe it has been 10 years.   I'd worked the night before, and had already gone to bed and just fallen asleep when my girlfriend-at-the-time woke me up saying someone had flown a plane into the Pentagon.  I went downstairs and saw one of the WTC buildings on fire.  My first thought was "This stupid git doesn't know ( Read more... )

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Posted pics of Gulf Wars XX (2011) in my FB.  Click the link to see 'em.

-Az

I sometimes wonder...  Are people, in general, incapable of telling the difference between something you "should" be able to do, and what is the "smart" thing to do ( Read more... )