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'Shadow-Lover, court me in my dreams
Bring the peace that suffering redeems.'

-Mercedes LackeyJust got a phone call from my dad.... He's dying of cancer and the prognosis is grim. Things are nearing a breaking point. My mom didn't want me flying back to jersey in the middle of this whole Corona virus situation and I hoped that there would be more ( Read more... )

• Tue, 13:38: Today is the day... https://t.co/97tWas5Ydy

Today is a very special day. For the first time since I was probably in my mid teens, I weigh less than 200 pounds. I've flirted with this line for months now but every time I got close there was always some holiday or indulgence or the last few pounds just became increasingly stubborn. Well, I finally crossed the finish line.


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'My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.'

-Orson Wells
'I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.'

-Khloe Kardashian

Well, it took me a week but I finally got down past the Orlando low as far as weight goes. Whenever I come back from one of the trips down there I always ( Read more... )

'Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.'

-John PiperI' ( Read more... )

'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.'
-Confucious
'Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.'
-Dr Alexis CarrellI was just about to go to bed, attemping to get to sleep at a more reasonable hour especially considering all the things I have to do tomorrow before ( Read more... )

'Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.'

-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

I went to get the lab results from my blood test that I had taken a week before leaving for Gencon. Overall I guess things are fairly good, all things considered. The topline result is that kidney function seems ( Read more... )

'Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.'

-St. JeromeMaybe part of the problem is that this past decade and change the devil has always been able to find me with time on my hands. One of the things I've spent a lot of time thinking about is what I should do to try to get my life back on a 'normal' track, and work ( Read more... )