The adage that you'll grow more conservative as you get older is predicated on the assumption that you'll have some wealth to protect.  You'll have your own little pile of plundered dwaren gold to curl around like a suburban detached single family home dwelling Smaug.

I don't feel that age has done anything but give me another two decades of ( Read more... )

I'm still struggling with ambiguous feelings about coming back to livejournal.

For me, this site felt like it had the ideal blend of primarily text based posts, detailed permissioning systems, and a close community.   Unfortunately facebook stole away the community aspect of the site for the most part.  Returning to this site feels like walking ( Read more... )

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Well, I'm trying to keep updating this thing more regularly. I might actually make a personal post at some point ( Read more... )

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Yeah, I've been neglecting the LJ. Just haven't felt much like writing long form after splitting my time between photography and learning to draw. Trying to get back into the habit by finding things that annoy the piss out of me and actually writing something of substance ( Read more... )

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Sometime in April my older cat, Pooka, will turn 14.  For a cat this is Really Fucking Old but we shouldn't quite suspect the feline of being a lich quite yet.  That's next year ( Read more... )

One of the things I was planning on for this year was moving back to Bainbridge Island after my lease expires at the end of April in Capitol Hill. Its not that I dislike Capitol Hill, its just that while there's a lot of good places to shop, eat, and drink, its also chock full of crack smoking (literally) homeless, has one of the highest rates of ( Read more... )