A wonderful Rennie friend of ours has found herself in a bit of a pickle. Some of you know Arial (also known as Faerie Moss). The Army has arrested her as a deserter after being released from service around 9 years ago. She needs people to spread the word about her situation. Especially if anyone has media contacts who can help. Here is her ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about getting back into Martial Arts. I really enjoyed it. It's been a long time, but I could really stand to get back in shape. The hard part is finding a place to take day time classes. They almost all seem to only have night classes. Though some have a few limited day classes. I may just have to suck it up and go to night classes. I ( Read more... )

Kai asked me a couple of days ago, "What is the number before infinity?"

I had another interesting dream recently. I dreamt of the Hindu God, HanumanIn my dream, I travel to a temple. I am in a line with other people. Prayers and chanting are all around. Incense is burning. I approach a man who places ash on my forehead while chanting. Next I am traveling to another temple. I approach three men. One of them reaches for ( Read more... )

The last couple of months have been mostly about the new Renaissance festival we are a part of down here. It's big and our first year saw profit and great potential for the future. So for that, we've invested in building a permanent booth. I've been doing much of the work by myself with some help from really incredible friends. I could not have ( Read more... )

Is this thing on? Lots of cobwebs here. Need to do a little cleaning. I'll try to be around a little more often.

I set up a parent/teacher conference with Kai's teacher. Trying to remain optimistic, but the evidence points to her pigeonholing Kai as an average student even though his previous record suggests otherwise. I don't pretend that he is a genius. There are some things that is is below average in, which is why seeing all #3's (meeting expectations) ( Read more... )

In honor of the new show, Shit My Dad Says, I thought I'd share some shit that MY dad used to say ( Read more... )

I just found a piece of birdshot in the leather I am working right now. It is thick cowhide. I have no idea why that would be in it. It appears that it was after tanning. There was black powder around it. Surely that would have come out during tanning if it was done before the animal died. Strange...