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Father's Day
Every Father’s Day I get a little depressed. I never knew my father, he was killed in a car accident when I was less than a year and a half old. He was 28. I remember feeling especially strange on my own 28th birthday knowing that I would live longer than my father, even at that young age ( Read more... ) -
The Altamaha River Trip Recap
Last night I got back from what was going to be a bigger adventure. I don't entirely feel like I wussed out though. Let me back up a step. Originally I was going to paddle from Hazlehurst Georgia, to a point just north of Darien Georgia along the Altamaha River. In case of trouble I had set up with Michelle that I would stop at Jesup Georgia ( Read more... ) -
upcoming solo adventure
(people whom I've worked with for the last few months, please disregard the following. I know I've been *really* annoying talking about this trip ( Read more... ) -
Back to this
OK, I re-upgraded to a paid account in here to hopefully inspire me to write more ( Read more... ) -
removal from sternum
So, for the last few weeks or so I've had the weird background feeling that I'm going to run into people that I used to consider friends. I have a really bad habit of pre scripting conflicts and so I've had running dialog in my head about what I would say if any of the handful of possible uncomfortable meetings occurred. Now, since none of those ( Read more... ) -
Possibly my favourite writing on the subject of atheism comes from vintage, pulp, sci-fi
" I wish that I could believe not in immortality but in reincarnation or individual immortality; I wish that I could be living again in another body or, God help me, even watching from the edge of a fleecy cloud in Heaven or out of the dusty windowpane of a haunted house or through the dull eyes of a dung beetle or on any terms. On any terms I want ( Read more... ) -
Happy Geek Moment
So, not only have I convinced the entire critical care division to switch to newer, more efficient printers that are actually designed to handle the workload we give them, AND I have embarked on a project that will save (get this) over 20,000 pages of paper a MONTH! The new printers are metered and will cost us less in supplies too, not to mention ( Read more... )
