I got a call from my father a little while ago.  The City of Alexandria has completed their internal investigation.  I am reasonably certain they are admitting no wrong doing but they gave the officer who shot my nephew the second harshest punishment available without criminal charges being brought against him.  The harshest punishment would have ( Read more... )

Once again the fondness maker will appear at the Manse NYE Party.  This year's sponsors will be duly honored at the Party since I can't remember their lj nicks.  Sorry.

I will try to track which of this year's six are popular and may repeat some if we do this again.  See folks on NYE!

Last week I was in Arizona and one of the places we visited was the Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff.  While waiting for my brother to finish in the museum, I wandered around taking pictures.  One of the items outside was a red logging wheel.  I noticed a piece of white paper on the cross bar and went to take a look.  I found set of ceramic beads with a ( Read more... )

As many of you know I am looking to transition to making massage therapy my career. In order to do so, I need a business name. Since I am not brimming with ideas at the moment, I am throwing the floor open to suggestions. Ideas can be straight business to fairly flowery. If I choose to use a suggestion that someone makes here, that person will ( Read more... )

I'm not sure where he is being held captive but in reciprocal courtesy for requesting art from a friend, if you are one of the first five people to respond, I will attempt to free Art on your behalf.  And you will receive the results ( Read more... )

I've been pondering hauling the massage chair down to Intercon and browbeating the Con Chair into letting me set up in a corner of the Con Suite (space allowing).  The question is how many people would be interested in having seated massage available at the Con?  Typically seated massage runs a dollar a minute with a standard routine of ten minutes ( Read more... )

I went over to AKS (the massage school that I attended) Friday morning to talk about the possibility of helping to teach the October class.  The meeting lasted about two hours of which really only about fifteen minutes had anything to do with me.  I really don't have a topic that I felt like claiming so I punted to the teaching lead (who was in my ( Read more... )

Just when I start wrapping my mind around sleeping in on Monday and what needs to be done while unemployed, the big boss asks if I will help trouble shoot for another group that leaves end of next month.  And being a sucker, I agree ( Read more... )

Well, it is now official, my last day with Equant dba Orange Business Services will be 29-Sep.  There are lots of little details to clear up like when my 30 days of job placement kick in.  The severance package is decent enough that I don't need to panic about having a job on 02-Oct.  If job placement doesn't start until after my last day, then ( Read more... )

As most of my readers no doubt know, I am a trained massage therapist.  During my training and after, I have been to workshops for several different types of energy work.  The general concept behind energy work is that the human body creates/has attached to it an energetic field and that by interacting with this field that changes can be made that ( Read more... )