I've been quiet since I got back. Where the hell have I been?

The short version is that, as soon as I was back in the United States, my mother's abuse of my father hit flashpoint during his convalescence at home, he threw her out of the house, and finally - finally - they're getting divorced. Although my friends have wisely told me not to get ( Read more... )

- I almost lost my father two weeks ago. Burst duodenal ulcer. Doc called me that night saying he wasn't sure if he'd survive. Today, Dad's able to walk a bit, eat, and joke. His progress has been unbelievable. I hold his hand and talk about the news with him, and in the back of my mind I think about how close to death he was. I still haven't ( Read more... )

I don't really like Twitter, I don't really like Tumblr, I don't really like Facebook, I don't really like Plurk, and the current climate of social media can go chug a bucket of horse piss as far as I'm concerned. Still, I dust this thing off not out of scorn for those platforms (which, quite hypocritically, I use anyway), but because I'm a ( Read more... )

We're halfway through 2014, and I still have no idea what it's all about.

(This thought has been brought to you by the National Committee for Posting Shit That Might As Well Go On Twitter in LiveJournal Instead.)

Things have improved since my last visit here (which are increasingly guarded, given how many of them are locked...eesh). Reading over that one again, I don't think I was seeing myself clearly. The week afterward, I wiped my schedule and started lifting again, more heavily this time. My way of thinking went through a slight but significant shift, ( Read more... )

I've been aching for this kind of day. Gray, rainy, breezy, cool, calm - and back to being myself for a little while ( Read more... )

@A203D Thank you for your message. I will never go back to Ivalice. I want to start working on a new project. thx :)

@HellishRomance It's not that I'm not interested, but actually doing it is something else.

One wonders just how many dream worlds have ended at the hands of a crass, bloodless corporate environment.  One wonders.

Finally watched Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto Hen, which I now believe translates loosely from Japanese as "Rurouni Kenshin: Steaming Pile of Monkey Shit."

These are dark days for anime.

I was looking through the Series Bible for Gargoyles the other night, as much to see how good writers can handle an ensemble cast as to remind myself that Angelfire still technically exists (!), and every time I read the Xanatos section, I have to smile.  They so obviously loved making this character.  Some of the lines that still catch my eye:

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"You will have noticed that the Republican primary campaign has turned into a cautionary tale of Mutual Assured Destruction."
-- John J. Reilly