But what if you get to be both? Heh. I put in an application to be a "Customer Zone Technician" for Verizon. Required by this large company is pre-employment testing. For such a position there is a general aptitude test consisting of subjects from spelling to number computation to spacial recognition. Nothing tremendously complicated, but ( Read more... )

I'm going to make one last attempt at this. Computing being what it is I've lost hour long posts on this topic twice now. So, here's my final shot at summing up some of life's conclusions from the road. It's the nature of long road trips after all. Spend that much time alone with yourself or even with someone else and you'll start learning a ( Read more... )

No man can stand accountable for himself unless he stands with bruises and scars adorning his visage like so many badges of pride. A medal of honor for each battle and struggle he endures. Tales told in his blood. Scrawled epics in cartilage. Wars survived etched in lines across a tired brow. If he stands tall and steady with ease, he has done ( Read more... )

So, what's the score? 2,771 miles between the 15th and early early morning the 23rd. PDX to SLC to Steamboat Springs to Denver to Aspen to PDX again. Two weddings, one long overdue reunion, a fistfull of new people met, countless untold and uncertain revelations. But all that in due time. I'll recount the trip details for now and leave the ( Read more... )

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I apologize to anyone who has I've recently fallen out of touch with. Also I apologize to anyone who has tried to get into or get back into my life for whatever the reason. Especially if you feel like you haven't really been at all successful. I know some of you have been trying, and I'm not the easiest person to get into these days. I've been ( Read more... )

Had I been born in a different time in a bygone era I think I'd have picked up a sword instead. There is an allure and a mystery in it. Grace, beauty, and a deadly severity inherent. A zen kind of certainty in the wielding of something so closely linked both to swordsman and opponent. Clarity or mind from degrees of danger and personal forms of ( Read more... )