I love Frank Herbert's work. Dune was one of those cornerstone works that helped form a view point for me. That being said I truly hate when people quote "Fear is the mind killer." at me. When it falls from the lips of a tough and gutsy friend I have to stick a mental fork into my hand to not speak. On the opposite side when one of my truly ( Read more... )

I may be trying an experiment in positive thinking and saying yes to more things.

Today is a lot better than yesterday.

Today was a good day for no other reason than the sunshine.

I am acting as a producer on a project that is becoming a problem. The director is a nice enough person who will not budge on anything. We need a kimono and an under kimono for a scene or two. I found some on eBay that if they had ordered it when I asked would have arrived in time and would have come out of the costuming budget. Nope can't do ( Read more... )

Feel free to stop informing me of everything that is wrong with the world, that you your self are not doing ( Read more... )

I seem to have gotten fat.

Today it feels like every bat shit crazy lunatic with some sort of conspiracy theory in my life has come through the SCA. Scores of brilliant unsung, unrecognized geniuses who do nothing. Arm chair social and political scientist, super special forces operators who would have walked in and taken out the bad guy in seconds. Warriors who rival ( Read more... )

My dog makes everything seem ok and manageable.

I have to remember that it is normal to have to work twice as hard as everybody else to be taken seriously. Even then it probably will not happen, but at least I know what I did.

Same old same old, I know I do good work and it gets better every project.