If you read only one rambling blog post with no discernible point behind it today, you might want to pick a different blog post. But, since you’re already here, you might as well keep reading… Last week I decided it was time to refresh my Tai Chi (Taiji, Taijiquan, however you’d like to refer to …
When in Rome, right? Â People who know me know I’m not a pot head – it’s just never been my thing. Â But, since I was going to be in Colorado, I had multiple reasons why I wanted to do a little marijuana tourism. Â At the same time I’m writing this, I’ve already written an article …
Becoming more active in the community, and the world as a whole, has been a goal of mine for a while. Â I’ve not been as good at it as I should be. Â Facebook activism doesn’t count, and even that is sometime I carefully dole out (someday I’ll bother writing a blog post on the company …
Wow. Â So, I’ve now seen the end of the Phantasm series. Â 37 years wrapped up in 5 somewhat low-budget movies. Â How does the last one stand up to the first one? Â Well, I recently got an awesome look back at the first one. Phantasm I Phantasm is strange. Â Even the original trailer is pretty strange, …
Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day — Paul Simon, Kodachrome This is a world of “if I don’t do it, it must be stupid.” Â Seriously, Pokemon GO! is an example of this thinking – somehow, “adults who …
SO. Â I had planned on getting back to regular blogging, just as I was moving. Â Then, I went a week without regular Internet access. Â Oops. Â Since I was on a rush to get a couple things up and rolling, I decided I would hold off on getting back to it until after ICT ComicCon and …
“Don’t wanna live as an untold story Rather go out in a blaze of glory I can’t hear you, I don’t fear you” — The Struts, Could Have Been Me With a new place came the chance to reorganize a whole lotta my stuff, and my life. Â Obviously, reorganizing stuff is considerably easier than reorganizing …
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One dream, one soul, one prize One goal, one golden glance of what should be It’s a kind of magic — Queen, It’s a Kind of Magic In many ways, the move had brought about a new way of life for me. Well, Not brand new, just one I haven’t experienced in quite a while. …
Changes to the Blog – Sort of. Problem: Â I keep saying I need more writing customers. Â What I’ve got now isn’t bad, just doesn’t put me on as solid footing as I’d like. Problem 2: Â I’ve got a company website. Â However, it’s geared towards my other field, video game development. Â It’s rather hard to …
Changes to the Blog – Sort of, Changes to Life, Return of the Vlog? Read More »
I tend to prefer vaping to smoking these days, but if I’m stressed out, I tend to revert back to smoking. Â Which is funny: Â I really can’t stand the taste anymore, it’s just part of my coping mechanism habits. As one might expect, with a moving coming up, and a new potential part-time gig coming …
August 27th, 2016 is ICT Comic Con & Science Fiction Convention here in Wichita.  I’ve done cons before – I’ve been an attendee, a vendor, and a speaker.  I do the Great Plains Renaissance Festival twice a year, but that’s not quite a con, though it’s got some con-like stuff going on (like the Kansas Authors’ Pavilion …
Prepping for the first con I’ve done in a while… (ICT Comic Con) Read More »
Well, it’s getting close – it’s almost time to move. Just like everyone else, I hate the process of moving. But, I’m fairly excited about the end result of moving. A friend and myself are going in on an older 4 bedroom, 2 bath house. The way things work out, there’s one regular sized room, …
Sometimes I write blog entries, and never publish them because I feel they’re a little too “personal” – getting into subject matter that maybe I shouldn’t be telling people openly. Â This took hours to write, despite only being around 1,300 words – there was a lot of “pondering” that went into writing it. Â Sometimes, that’s …
Maybe I’m Doing it Wrong, and I Suggest Pictures With Circles and Arrows Read More »
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It’s based on a novel by a man named Lear, And I need a job, So I want to be a paperback writer, Paperback writer. — The Beatles, Paperback Writer So, I’m a writer. Â Heck, …
While I had a number of things going on today, one of the important ones was a meeting with Liz Statzer, who currently acts as Associate Director for Crucible, the Kickstarter backed game that’s due to ship beta October 31st. Now, the position of Associate Director is a rotating position among the 8-Bit Minion Intern …
Gettin’ had Gettin’ took I tell you folks It’s harder than it looks It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll – AC/DC, It’s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock and roll) (See at the end of this post for why the choice of this …
The Moving Adventure, and Back Into The Crucible Read More »
Earl Grey tea infused cake.  Just let that roll around in your brain for a moment – it’s friggin’ tasty.  That’s what Morgan made me for birthday cake 🙂 My birthday was fairly sedate.  On the 29th, I pretty much just focused in on three things: searching for an apartment / house, looking for some part …
“If you don’t like what you’ve got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it! Raise a little hell, raise a little hell, raise a little hell!” — Trooper, Raise A Little Hell So, it’s that time again. Â That time where I swear I’m going to start updating …
I love you. You probably don’t hear that enough. It’s not that the world has become about all hate, it’s just that we’ve lost sight of the important part lately: love. I might not know you very well if you’re seeing this – some people on my friends list I know very well. Some, I …
The picture is something I see nearly every day. Â I’ll get into that a bit more later in the post, and why it both amuses me and motivates me, but it’s also part of a broader picture. Â And, I’m not saying I’m particularly unhealthy; just that I want to improve, and sometimes that’s a struggle …
The continuing pursuit of health, and the stumbles Read More »
SEO (Search Engine Optimization – basically, how high does a site rank on a Google search) is a field I know about, but I’ve avoided it considerably over the years. Â I also usually avoid content development, too. Â I mean, sure, I write plenty of stuff for myself, but I don’t usually do it for clients …
I hate having a shoulder brace on when I sleep. Â But, I’ve discovered there’s more than one good reason to wear it every night. Originally, Morgan had taught me how to wrap my shoulder so I could workout without causing more pain in my left shoulder. Â It sort of hurts more than I let on …
Why I have a shoulder brace: it hurt more than I thought it did. Read More »
If you could read my mind, you’d discover that I’ve always been fat. Â Or, at least, that’s how I view myself. Now, it’s not really body dysmorphia – it’s not something I think about many times a day. Â But, it comes up. Â And I’ve discovered I’m not really alone in that sort of thinking -Â there’s …
My final (I hope) piece on my 2016 goals is sort of a catch all for a few subjects. In Part I I reflected on my failures in 2015, and talked about financial stuff for 2016. Part II I talked about health, Part III I talked about dating, and Part IV I talked about the …
2016 Goals Part V:  Independance, Love, and Toxicity Read More »
Continuing my goals for 2016… Towards the end of 2014, I was separated, and in April 2015, I was divorced. Â Yep, sucks, but life moves on. I haven’t put huge amounts of effort into dating. Â Now, that’s not to say I’ve done nothing what so ever about it, it’s just that I haven’t gotten super …
I didn’t finish a number of projects on my list in 2015. Â I’m under no illusions that I’ll finish all my projects in 2016, but I’m going to try. 🙂 I avoided quite a few personal projects in 2015 – I needed to be careful adding too much to my overflowing plate of things to …
My 2016 goals aren’t written in order of importance, but instead, written in order of coherence. Â Basically, the things I can articulate reasonable are the things I’m writing about first. I had some pretty solid workout / health goals for 2015, and I failed to meet them. Â Now, that’s not to say I didn’t improve. …
In 2015, I didn’t do resolutions – I set some goals for the year, and moved on. Â For 2016, I’m doing the same thing, but a bit bigger this time. I knew 2015 was going to be a recovery year. Â There was only so much I was going to do – my resources were low, …
2016 Goals, Part I: Quick Reflection, and Starting Goals Read More »
I ran across this video in my various feeds, and love it: Â it’s a comparison of the first three Indiana Jones movies against the four (somewhat hated) movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Â The first movie was 1981, and the most current one was 2008. While I didn’t care for the …
So, earlier today, someone I knew made a #FreeTheNipple post on Facebook (without the hashtag). Â I’m a support of the concept, but this one caused me a moment of vapor lock as I was trying to reason out online etiquette for it. Normally, if someone posts a picture of themselves dressed nice, or doing something …
A #FreeTheNipple moment I had to wrap my brain around… Read More »
