1. Mundane Name: If you know me, you know it ( Read more... )

Tatev is a hobbit-short midget Russian Armenian gal who came out to SCA practice; I must admit, I was less than enthusiastic about her a first.  I mean, I like pretty girls plenty fine, and she is (barely) old enough (18) I could look and not feel like a criminal.  If I did I would be an old reprobate, for sure, but Callista made me feel like that ( Read more... )

It was a good weekend; the office had a good week last week and then we drove out of town to hit Angels Melee.  BroJoe, Heather, Abby, Melissa and I made the trip.  Melissa got us a pair of hotel rooms "very close to the site."  As it turns out, Melissa defines "very close" as the closest high end Hotel; it was very nice for the few hours we stayed ( Read more... )

So awhile back I drove 90 minutes to an outlying (and very conservative) community, Pahrump, to handle the first part of a heated sentencing hearing where a bakers' dozen of state's speakers mixed various parts homophobia, apocalyptic christianity and pure nastiness for hours. Among other things I was called "soul less" "reprehensible" and (my ( Read more... )

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I have been wondering why I have been feeling so chatty on Facebook and otherwise in a much better mood.  I think I figured it out.

I have always felt I am a bit above money. I liked the story I read (I think in Herodotus) about the Tatar nobles who would buy expensive garments of the finest silk and then mutilate them with knives and smear them ( Read more... )

I get a panicked call from a friend; seems he started his celebrating early and also decided to ring in the new year by having some dude wash his car. Problem is he was backing up his car to move it off the street and ran it into the car wash guy's car.Then he and car wash guy get into a bit of a misunderstanding where my buddy thinks car wash guy ( Read more... )

So it has been a full couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I saw something horrible today ( Read more... )

 
short update

COUNT CHOCULA
Back in the black suit, black shirt and pink tie. Cat was going to
take a picture for my mommy this morning but the camera was on the
blink. Thus, I do not believe there is yet any evidence of my
downfall from proud and aloof underdresser to sissy vampire wanna-be.

GYM
The gym is going OK, except for the fact that this lack of ( Read more... )