OK, lots of stuff happening on the Gildowan front this week.  First off, on Monday the 16th a PODS storage container is arriving at the house with the majority of our furniture and whatnot.  Then on Thursday I am showing up with a truck with the rest of it minus the bare minimum I need to live on in Texas.  On Friday I am doing another interview ( Read more... )

 My grappling practice in martial arts last night was pretty awesome. I was working the whole time with a blue belt who's the next tallest guy in class, and he gave me tons of pointers on how to take advantage of my weight, length and leverage. Being so much taller than my opponents makes it wicked easy for me to get someone in a guillotine choke ( Read more... )

For those of you at the last WtT who were kind enough to listen to the final (really, really  final now) version of the Songs I've been working on, now titled 'Songs of Barbelith - First Sun', and who have since been bugging me for links to it, this post is for you.

I've been working on a bunch of different things trying to get them all in a mildly ( Read more... )

I'm going to begin putting together a web page soon.  I was wondering if any of the wonderfully web-techy folks on my Friends list here could help me out with that.  The principle thing I'm looking for is information.  Best how-to sites, best programs to use, best places to host both for free and for cheap, etc.  I would gladly accept more in-depth ( Read more... )

   Some of you with long memories (and those who bear grudges hard) may remember me posting back around September about my 'musical' composition, Songs of Barbelith, and my request to have people download it and share it via Bittorrent.  I didn't really follow up further on it at that point, never let people in general know about it, so there was ( Read more... )

For some reason on Saturday I was ridiculously tired despite getting more sleep Friday night than I normally do.  Like goofy falling asleep standing up tired.  So when I saw this out of the corner of my eye in the ethnic food section, it drove me to my knees I was laughing so hard.


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   There's a 'music' project I've been playing around with off and on for a few years now. I got it into a rough finished form before the house fire, and gave my Mom a copy of it on a CD. When the house burned down, it destroyed all of the material I had built up over the years that went into it, and the rough draft my Mom had was the only record ( Read more... )

   A few nights ago, I dreamt.  I was visiting a temple.  It was styled halfway between Middle-Eastern and European, somewhat similar to Byzantine architecture or the Hagia Sophia.  It was completely white, as if of plain unpolished marble.  Inside, it consisted primarly of just one large round room with a high hemispeherical dome.  Across from the ( Read more... )

I can't tell you had terribly cool it is to open up a long, narrow and completely unexpected package, especially when it contains two brand new shinai!  And very high-quality, well-balanced and appropriately lengthed to boot.

Firefen, you rock!  You are a goddess, even if you do still live in Texas!

Gradually, we seem to be getting most everything ( Read more... )

If I had a geek filter, that would definitely be the place for this entry.  As it is, you all get to find out just how much of a kick ass dork I am.

There is a game called VGA Planets that I have been playing on and off for about 17 years now, and through several iterations and expansions of the game.  In its current form it is the single most ( Read more... )