do you remember the good old crayola watercolor paints you had as a kid?  remember when the package was shiny and new and the brush was in perfect condition?  then as you used them the brush got messed up and some of the paints started to run together?  eventually, if your experience was anything similar to mine, you ended up with an empty paint ( Read more... )

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I keep some pretty random files on my computer so I decided to start another one.  I titled it 'Advice to my Daughter'  and I figure I will give it to her in about ten years or so.  I was inspired by this random blog i discovered today which I cannot link because I have it saved at work and am now at home.  anyway, it was called '1001 pieces of ( Read more... )

is there any wait that is longer than the one that comes right after you have placed your order with the chinese restaurant and are extremely hungry?  hah! i didn't think so.  i need dumplings. o such dumplings there will be.

ok, so tomorrow is Samhain - the holiest day of the pagan year.  the new year.  the HOLIEST DAY of the year.  fanon03  has a training thing for the army in Atlantic City this weekend and they are supposed to leave tomorrow morning.  He got permission to stay home Friday for ritual and then drive up to the training on Saturday morning.  TODAY (nothing like ( Read more... )

I do not do politics.  It's sort of a part of the code that I live by.  If I let myself become to involved in politics it snowballs and I get obsessed by it.  It causes a lot of stress that I think is pretty unhealthy for me.  I have a political malaise, you could say.  I really do not think that an individual vote means much anymore.  I think the ( Read more... )

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so i think there is going to be a definite tip in the weather towards the colder side of the spectrum.  it has been cooling off, but still pretty balmy around here for fall.  my body is predicting that the weather is going to cool off soon. i woke up with my lower back aching today and sitting on my butt at work is aggravating the condition.  it's ( Read more... )

the guys are playing poker tomorrow night he says on wednesday.  thats cool, you should play says me.  thursday at lunch he says i'm not gonna play i just have too much work to catch up on. are you sure says i, they are gonna pick on you and say your wife nagged you when the opposite is true.  yeah says he, i'm not playing, but i'll definitely be ( Read more... )