Hello!

This will be my final Live Journal update. It's been fun. 17 years. 314 entries. It begins here, a few days after my first date with the girl who became my wife.

Special thanks to chaoticgoodnik for gifting this account and making me promise to write. That may prove to be the most important nudge of my life.

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Everybody's been saying that 2016 was terrible due to all of the celebrity deaths. I'm not so sure that 2016 was worse than any other year. I think it's more likely that the largest demographic of social media users have reached an age where they are familiar with the celebrities who died ( Read more... )

Counting down to a new year. Doing it alone this time. House to myself. No invitations to go anywhere else. A bit disappointed, but not unhappy; I'm enjoying a quiet evening alone. It's a good time to reflect upon the past year and look toward the future.

My big new year's resolution for 2015 was to stop using Facebook. I decided that it was too ( Read more... )

Deep down inside, everybody knows how to save the world. Most villains in popular fiction have it figured out, but the hero always stops them because the solution is too drastic. If you want to save the world, you have to kill most of the people ( Read more... )

In high school, I was taught a couple Latin words that I've somehow managed to remember for the past twenty years ( Read more... )

I recently received an email inviting me to join NMU ALLIES. ALLIES is a group on campus that shows support for a subset of the population. Specifically, the Bee Gees, the Elles, and the Tease ( Read more... )

During the past couple months, I became familiar with the intensive care unit at our local hospital. Fortunately for me, I was not the guest of honor; I was merely visiting. Unfortunately, my father-in-law has been having a really tough time there, and he was recently flown to a more advanced hospital. Any prayers, magic spells, or other rituals ( Read more... )

My friend Laurie visited in December to bake cookies, and it became my duty to entertain her six-year-old daughter. I don't consider this a bad thing; I like children, believe they are the future, and want some of my own, but I have very little recent experience interacting with them ( Read more... )

I like to remain at my desk at work in the early morning because I am rather frightened by the ghosts, hobos, and mannequins shuffling about the building. That's why I tried to ignore the doorbell on Tuesday. Somebody else usually opens the door anyway. Minutes later, it rang three times in rapid succession. I was the only person in the building, ( Read more... )

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It's 2012. Not sure how a whole month slipped by already. If time keeps moving this fast, I'll be dead before long.

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