So I had a birthday two days ago. I'm twenty seven now. Twenty seven, unmarried, and jobless. I feel that somewhere along the way I seem to have gotten off society's path. I mean, I've always been a little off pace with society anyway, but running into old friends who have kids going into first grade, a job, and a decent family life really ( Read more... )

It's roll-call time again lurkers. Viewpoints gave me a pretty little test for you all to take. Have fun with it and make my journal feel less empty ( Read more... )

Several years back I remember writing an entertaining little imagining of the inner workings of my brain. I saw this today and it made me smile.


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Welcome friends to the year 2011. I know I'm a little late to the party, at least I'm a little late to speak up anyway. You know we ninja are not known for revealing ourselves within your midst until we feel like it after all. So far it's been quite an interesting new year. I've been quite busy juggling all the changes in my life that ushered ( Read more... )

All packed up and ready to see Chris and Crystal through their wedding on Saturday. I'd like to ask that you all join me in praying to whatever dark gods you have or sacrificing whatever small animals and plants that can't escape your grasp that there will be no rain that day. It's an outdoor wedding and I think we here in Illinois are set to get ( Read more... )

Actually, now that title has me thinking..."Steampunk Ninja!" Wouldn't that be fun to design as a costume? But anyway, on to the actual point of this post. A couple of weeks ago my roommate and I met up with some of our E'vil (Edwardsville) cohorts with cameras and had a little Steampunk photo shoot in the park. I've only got a few pictures ( Read more... )

At least that's what most of my electronic organizational tools keep telling me anyway. It's funny how as a digital society we've been conditioned to not remember so much information just because we have machines to remind us from time to time. I used to know the phone numbers of all of my friends, their parents, and the Jimmy Johns down the ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like a project to give me direction. I've got an October deadline to construct a Steampunk weapon for my character so that my costume will look like I've actually worked on it since the Steamposium in April. The plan is to finish requisitioning materials by the end of this month for my Tesla Canon. Basically a lightning ( Read more... )

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Dinner ---> Movie ---> Stroll through the carnival downtown ---> Win an inflatable dolphin for the girl ---> Ice cream at Coldstone Creamery ---> A night of talking about various interests.

I'm so proud of Tim. You only see stuff like this in cheesy romance movies but tonight he lived it!