This year I've started actually trying to do some of the things I've thought about, wished about, lamented that I couldn't or didn't know how to do, and just Do It. So far I've fooled around with water colors a little, gone to a some estate sales looking for books to pick for a book dealer I know and who let me know he was always in need of new ( Read more... )

We have, as a society, generally come to expect the occasional annoyance of double standards when dealing with people personally. However, dealing with double standards in a professional setting is something I still find intolerable. I work at a company that has a fairly diverse ethnic representation. Sometimes this is beneficial, as a ( Read more... )

LJ stopped being a habit for me over 2 years ago; it's been nearly a year since I've posted. I have slowly stopped the timesuck I have let facebook and twitter become, and in what I hope isn't going to be merely substitutionary behavior, I am going to attempt to start writing here every day again. Plan on it being boring, run-of-the-mill daily ( Read more... )

I told the kids to stay put in the hotel room, & that i would be back. Elyssia, not one to take anything unexplained, asked where i was going. I told her i was going out to wait for the aliens to come & take me away. Then i gave her a smile & went out & down to the lobby. I got a water from the vending machine & came back up ( Read more... )

I had a nice day, partially in spite of myself, but mostly because of those around me. I took my kids (and my Ex) up to Portsmouth. They had a Tall Ships fest this weekend. We originally talked about going yesterday where there were to be 4 ships there, except that my daughter was highly uncooperative and no one had a good day. So instead we went ( Read more... )

I need some opinions and advice. I have been invited to a graduation party for the daughter of a friend and former coworker. I suppose that she and I are friends of a sort (although I have no idea how she would describe it), in that the last few times I have been at their house, she has hung out and talked with her mom and I for a while. So I ( Read more... )

In the early 1500s, a huge deposit of natural graphite was discovered in Borrowdale parish, England. The graphite was of such density and such purity that miners could bring out sections as large at 3 feet, which were easily cut down into sticks, and thus an industry was born. For well over 100 years, the English enjoyed a near monopoly on pencils ( Read more... )

Almost everyone is either a dog person, a cat person, or not an animal person at all. Very occasionally do you find someone who is both a cat & a dog person. I am clearly a cat person by choice, although at times there are dogs who appear not to know this. I don't know how much my chosen preference biases me, but there a times when i truly hate ( Read more... )

I figure that a recurring dream taking place in a parking garage is a (poor?) Modern day analog to the victorian labyrinth. Yes?

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1. Get Enough Sleep
2. Eat Right
3. Exercise
4. Reduce Stress
5. Find your Motivation for Each Day
6. Be Productive
7. Do at lest 1 Thing for your Family
8. Do 1 Thing for Yourself