I'm really bad at being sick. Which is odd, considering how many colds and sundry stuff I've had over the years. You'd think that much practice would make dang close to perfect.

Sometimes people need a bit of a scolding. They get thoughtless and stupid, and it jumps right to hurtful and hateful without a pause or even recognition, and goes on to reinforce the assumptions and brainwashing that led to the trouble to begin with. So when I can get away with it, and when I can't stand it any more, I point it out as firmly-yet- ( Read more... )

Hi, everyone! Yeah, I'm still here. Just haven't had anything to say worth reading, it would seem. But I'm glad you're still writing. Thought you should know.

So at the beginning of this year I mentioned some goals I have. How did I do? Not real well, actually. Aside from a continuous stream of things apparently designed to keep me from getting anywhere with them, my attempts were more or less a series of lessons on how not to go about things ( Read more... )

I'm not quite dead yet.

People sometimes ask me how things are going. One of these days I'll stop and look around to find out. In the mean time, the certain thing is that they are going.

Oh God. If people knew how much I laugh... I say I'm not laughing at them, I'm merely laughing in their direction. We share a wink ( Read more... )

I have lots and lots of reasons to be in a bad mood.

I am in a very good mood.

Not sure of the wisdom in questioning this, but if I can figure out how to do it on purpose, it'd be a really handy thing.

It would appear that I have honed my skill for cruel diplomacy to an edge able to deliver undiluted contempt and be more or less thanked for it.

There is probably a good use for this aside from diverting an urge to pound idiocy into jelly with rhetoric-coated truth, but I haven't found it just yet.

...and off to the mountains. I swear I'll actually put up some pictures again soon. Ish.

Something I look forward to each fall is a week or so at a beach house with the family. I won't be able to be there the whole time, but a few days away from my insane life seems like a nice notion. Might even come back with some new music, who knows?