I have become a champion of cheap, alternative fuel.  My research is complete and tests are at phase 3 of 4.  My coworkers and family await the final report.  It should be ready by my birthday.  By then, I should be able to sell inexpensive vehicles that run a long time on alcohol.  It will be a new twist for the disposable age in which we live.  I ( Read more... )

I am divorced.

I am thirty.  Shit.

"They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could
be wrong.

Compared, calander page against calander page, it looks to be the

shortest, all right. Spread between January and March like lard on
bread, it fails to reach the crust on either slice. In its

galoshes-and you'll never catch February in stocking feet-it's a full

head ( Read more... )

 

I look at my job and the work that I have done for the past few years and it is starting to change perspective. I can look to most of it as comfortably structured, yet it is now reminding me of the holes in the rest of my life. I have spent way too much time here, week by week. It should not be an issue so much now, but the weeks that I have ( Read more... )

And it's one more day up in Rob's cabin...

Not just the change in weather to consider, but I can feel that it is going to be a long month.  By this time last year, I was in a dire state of mind and physically exhausted.  Now, it is another year and I feel a similar uncertainty about the short-term future.  In the long-term, things are looking good ( Read more... )

I had a thought about a set of costumes for my self and Alexander. We could both dress as old-style nuclear bombs. Fat Man and Little Boy ( Read more... )

"These things are just a minor setback.
All that I have lost, I will regain."

-Gul Dukat

One Trek, many faces. And my in-laws said I was a Changling. Never could trust the solids...