This has probably been the most eventful year of my life.

Looking back, it would be easy to say "fuck 2010." A lot of really awful stuff happened. I was kicked out of a good friend's house and out of his life over an extremely simple misunderstanding.  My girlfriend cheated on me for months in front of my face with my best male friend.  I spent ( Read more... )

I feel really good tonight.  Peaceful.

For a long time now, things have been happening to me.  Things over which I had little to no control.

Thanks in large part to my therapist, I have been slowly sifting through the aftermath.  In my anger and frustration, two major things happened.  The first is that I attempted to take control over any ( Read more... )

"...and how will you help our business if we work for you?"

Diego rolled his shoulders, the billowing cloak of shadows surrounding him echoing his movements.  Self interest.  He could work with this. His voice echoed off the warehouse walls as he responded.

"I am a man who has influence.  Resources.  Work for me, and I could expand your markets.  ( Read more... )

This is an unusual one.

It appealed strongly to me, because I am a lifelong gamer.  To anyone who is not, chances are this movie makes no sense at all.  It is extremely surreal, wacky and over the top, chock full of awesome references to every video game that has ever blessed screens large or small.

There is, quite simply, far too much awesome and ( Read more... )

Come August, it will be time for me to start advertising for my tutoring service again. I need to explore as many avenues as i can, because money has been extremely tight lately ( Read more... )

A prisoner who has committed a heinous crime is before a judge. The judge sentences the prisoner to death by hanging, but adds a cruel twist to the sentence (the prisoner’s crime is particularly heinous). The prisoner is to be hanged on one of the following seven days - but it must be a surprise which day it is. The prisoner is not allowed to know.
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The journey toward self improvement has been very slow going after the first week.  There have been a lot of pitfalls and setbacks ( Read more... )

Now that I have a GPS device, I have begun to happily delve into the world of Geocaching ( Read more... )

I just saw a commercial for a "no touch" automatic soap dispenser.

Why would I want such a thing?  Because apparently my soap pump might have germs on it.

You know, the soap pump that I am going to push right before I wash my hands with said soap? The soap that is supposed to kill 99.9% of germs?  How stupid do they think we are?

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While I'm ( Read more... )

My 4th of July was spent thusly ( Read more... )