We gathered, all, before the fire
reminsiscent tales and yarns transpire
of memories and years since past
of family; friends; time moving too fast

And in that room, our bonds were firm
no raises voices or faces stern;
our differences, forgotten then
as we were together again

Something about this time of year;
we forgive; forget; become sincere
despite our ( Read more... )

The website renovations are coming along... very slowly. A LOT of things have come up which have made it really difficult to make progress with taier.org lately, so instead of working on the site, I've decided to take a moment to bitch about the things taking up all of my time ( Read more... )

We get so caught up in the drama of daily, mundane life... Am I going to be able to run that errand? How will I deal with that person? Will by boss catch on that this report is late?... We forget the big picture, and we lose perspective on what our lives really are. This short flash movie puts things into an interesting perspecive... Take a ( Read more... )

I guess I am mildly obsessive/compulsive, or just to focused on detail. When I catch something wrong or out of place, it eats away at me until I fix it ( Read more... )

i usually don't keep a blog or journal; I usually use my website (http://www.taier.org) for that... but, I figured since I haven't updated anything in a while; I'd cross post something I wrote on the website this morning... I had a dream last night about an old friend which inspired this ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in Chicago.  Actually, scratch that.  I am in Franklin Park, Illinois--which is this industrial suburbia surrounding ORD, (Chicago O'Hare International Airport.) I'm here for work, to pack up a facility which we closed on Friday.   It's quite depressing really, knowing that I am discarding things which people had on their desks for ( Read more... )

Well, in my effort to be a good doo-bie; Here I am updating my journal once again. Here I lay on the couch snuggled up in Vootek Vukovar comfyness, with the puppy curled up in my lap snoring loudly while the wind howls and wails outside. The day started warm and beautiful, and ended with a storm dropping a couple of inches of snow. I hate this ( Read more... )

Wow! Two updates in only a few days!  Amazing!!

Today was a nice day, around 13 degrees, (or 60 degrees if you don't do Celcius,) and 
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Okay... so the last time I updated this it was July...  Here it is March... (8 months later,) and I am just getting around to updating again.  Is it that my life is so uneventful? Is it that my day-to-day is so routine and mundane that I have nothing to share?  No-- simple fact of the matter is that I don't believe that anyone actually would bother ( Read more... )