Note: in the honor of fairness, the following recounted memory has been, what Gary would call “Texas Sized”. Where I come from it is simply the time honored tradition of not boring your audience.
We also believed making cookies for the moving men was not manipulation or a bribe ..but rather just “loving them to their goal”.
With that in mind, enjoy the following cautionary tale of roller coasters and kids first roller coaster rides. Otherwise known as “aw c’mon ya big baby! It cant hurt you!”
I wrote this in reply to a post from a friend who had convinced their nephew to go on a roller-coaster despite his fear of them.
My friends and old team at MS Games (aka fasa, etc) have gone off and started their own gig. This is their first release and I’m immensely proud of them, thus I’m more than pleased to use my space on my site to give them some attention.
I don’t know why i feel I must keep posting to this site. I suppose I need to for an outlet even if no one ever really see’s my words. There’s always a slim hope that something I say will some day pop up in google and help someone I don’t know. So I post.
Today was hard. Very hard. I felt very close to a breakdown.
Update:
Boman, my oldest Golden, turns 14 this November 2008. He has been a constant source of joy and love for me through some of the hardest times of my life. He is one of the most special dogs I’ve ever known. Last week he had an accident that left me terrified…. but only for a short while. He is safe and sound now and acts as if nothing ever happened. This is the story of his great fall off a ledge high above the Skycomish river that flows behind my house.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by how they treat their animals. “as you have done unto the least of these..”
Gary and Sophie have a bond that’s a joy to watch. She is so expressive with her eyes and ears. I swear she gets the most mischievous grin on her face sometimes…. Especially when she gets her way or pulls something over on Libby.
Today is Alice Eve.
Sometimes a joke is best left unsaid. The payoff isn’t worth the backfire.
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I’ve been watching the Peterson footage of Bigfoot lately. I don’t know why it’s cropped up so much in my life lately. It seems that while I’m thinking of a thing, or exploring it in my book, it seems to be around me much more than usual, as if the energies out there want to support me or I’m drawing those things to me. Read the rest of this entry »
http://www.zenofsudoku.com
I like Sudoku. I suppose you could say I’m addicted to it but thats only because those unfamiliar with me don’t realize I’m actually addicted to warcraft. I only appear to be hooked on Sudoku because I carry a book of Puzzles with me for the restroom. Really!
One of my favorite implimentations of the game is Zen of Sudoku by Charlie Cleveland (art by Corey Strader). check it out
I can’t wait to see this movie. Religion both taught me and destroyed me and colored my life in many ways I do not like. Like AIDS, it is a force that has shoved me from one side to another like a rip tide. I walked willingly, blindly, into both. And yet, AIDS hasn’t harmed me nearly as much as the church has. I chose both out of desperation, one not so clearly plotted out to my conscious mind as the other, but both have nearly destroyed me.
The animated autobiography Persepolis touches me on a very deep level because it is about this struggle.