And now the first entry, concerning how our intrepid explorer came to find himself in old Italia, and his arrival in the ancient city of Rome.  As will be the norm, a jump will protect casual browsers from being assaulted by a wall of text.

( Of plans and beginnings )

Well, it's been nearly a year, and that seems as good an interval as any to come back after ( Read more... )

I love it when a candidate makes a commercial that slams his opponent for 30 seconds and plugs himself for two, and all it accomplishes is to tell me things about his opponent that make me like the opponent more.  "He opposed that 35 times?  Oh man, awesome - good for him." :D  Gotta love backfiring mudslinging ( Read more... )

Now that I have a Real Adult job, a Real Adult apartment, and am in the process of acquiring the rest of the Real Adult series of products, I figure it's time to make sure I don't get stuck in a 9-5 rut of work, come home, eat dinner, veg (video games/reading/Internet uselessness), bed, rinse, repeat.  It's my first time having cable TV or console ( Read more... )

Time for John to be a big boy, lay aside childish things, and so forth.

( Tawdry details thereof. )

The vacation's been trotting along quietly, and has been fun so far.  We went to the beach today, which was nice and all - I've just never been much for the beach.  Too much sand, and too bright.  Give me a mountain river any day ( Read more... )

Life updates abound, since I'm increasingly irregular at updating ( Read more... )

I found out Monday that my DMP research (thesis work, essentially) was due Friday.  Through rapid acceleration of timelines and not a little sleep loss, it looks like I might actually make it.  Aaaaand back to work.

And dammit, I'm proud of myself.

( Dungeons and Dragons stuff that you probably don't care about )

Some nights, your pulse races fast with the cleverness of you, and everything smells like roses.  Other nights, you fall out of your orbit and wind up staring at the wall, wondering if you're ever going to be completely happy and at peace.  Hard to say, often, whether it's light sprinkled with shadows, or shadows sprinkled with light.  Even if the ( Read more... )