I was thinking about sanity today, mine and others, and decided after some musing that perhaps we're all as delusional as we need to be in order to live with ourselves. Some may be more insane than that, but really how can anyone be less?

A palindrome is not a palindrome is, despite instinct, a perfectly logical sentence.

It feels good to be home again. I got back yesterday and did laundry, sorted my room out a bit and more or less just settled in. This morning I went for my first run of the year. I'd been using the exercise bike on the ship in Squamish for a LITTLE bit of cardio training, but not nearly enough. We couldn't just leave the cruise ship and go for ( Read more... )

When I first took this job flagging traffic for the Olympics, we were told that we were expected to be here until the end of March to complete flagging for the Paralympics, and then we would receive a completion bonus. By the end of the main Olympics, it was clear that the company which employed me has never run a job this big and has absolutely ( Read more... )

So the Olympic work gig is going alright. Yesterday was my 16th straight day on shift. Unfortunately, throwing up on site cut my day short, and provided me with a no-choice day off today. Thankfully it seemed to be nothing more than a less than 24 hour stomach bug thingy, so by noon yesterday I was feeling off but better and after a full night's ( Read more... )

To work, not compete. I'm sure there's a special Olympics spot for me if I just tried hard enough but... *grins ( Read more... )

Quiz Stolen from wilebobcat

I figured I'd wait for the month to finish before posting again, just to give it a few weeks and make sure that things were going to go half as good as they felt like they could when I posted last. It's only a few days from month's end and I've got a bit of time to kill so ( Read more... )

I was going to wait at least a month to write this, but as I'm back posting on forums and the like, I decided today that a quick update after my last LJ entry might be a good thing to do ( Read more... )

It was a mid 80's Ford F150, but after a while when people asked, we took to telling them it had started life as a Honda Civic. Made for amusing reactions. Also, the border crossings were a gas! Mucho thanks to Lummox for making this thing happen:


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