Birthday post ( Read more... )

What if I thought of everyone as a temp.  A temp hire.  A temporary position.  A fill-in ( Read more... )

So, like any red-blooded American boy, most of my brain processor cycles have been wasted thinking about automobiles.  Actually, automobiles are second only to... well, you know, and finish just ahead of food.  But as you know if you know me, my love of automobiles crumbled with the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001.

But very rarely, I  ( Read more... )

I had made another post but it seems to have been eaten.  By that thing that eats stuff ( Read more... )

Happy Saint Patrick's day everyone!  (As if I needed an excuse to have a Guinness)

Floppy disks seem to make really good fire starters.  Who'd have known?

A Dr. Friend Story:  Some time ago, Dr. Friend was in Paris for the day and had made arrangements to go out for a drink with one of his classmates from medial school.  His classmate got them a ( Read more... )

I've spend most of my adult life moving.  Some have had it worse than I have I know.  But I've never really had a move like this before.  First of all, I actually have time to plan a little.  All of my past moves happened within the month.  And I can say thankfully this is the case since I've never done a move like this one.  I don't know exactly ( Read more... )

Cataclysms make me tick.  I don't know if it comes from growing up in a place where 'national emergencies' are commonplace or what but I seem to thrive on a certain amount of adversity.  I feel strangely invigorated ( Read more... )

I'm not thinking of this because it will ruin the moment but here I go anyway.  Have you ever had so many amazing things happen to you almost all at the same time, that you start thinking that disaster is impending?  Like, if every up has its down, this next down is going to be a doozie!  That's kind of how I'd be feeling right now, but I refuse to ( Read more... )

In my memory, yesterday was a three-ply day.  And it was at least as long as two normal days ( Read more... )

I don't know.  I wanted to LJ something.   I've been kind of down lately and I feel like my sleep patterns are quite a bit off since the New Year.  Sometimes I feel like nothing has a point.  I'm not used to feelings of not being excited by anything.  Politics is the worst.  Any time I try to think about politics, my brain feels like it wants to ( Read more... )