I wish I could share the stars. I grew up in the country and took the star filled nights for granted. Â Don’t get me wrong – as a kid I loved to look at the stars. Â We even had a telescope to get a better look at things. Â But they were absolutes, always there. Â And …
I’ve always wondered if I’d look good bald. Â For me, this is a very important subject – because I’m going bald anyway. Â I used to have very long, full hair with a high forehead. Â It was nice. Â I liked it. Â I could do things with that (though, I rarely did much to it.) But over …
Hair, hair, everywhere (‘cept on my head, for the moment.) Read More »
Now, it’s not a real manly thing to say ya’ cry. Â But, I’ve been known to do that on rare occasion. Â Someone quite randomly found a way to make me cry today. A little setup – it was a rough day to start with. Â My girlfriend broke things off with me – sucks too, this …
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it but I probably will Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of, well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days – Bruce Springstein, “Glory Days” Over the years …
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I’m not much for following celebrities on Twitter – I don’t see the point. Â I’m not going to discuss much of anything with them, and I’m not really that interested in their lives (in fact, I could care less – I’m fully aware they are all just people who put on their pants the same …
(If this is your first time reading any of my Messianic Musings, please be sure to read this first, or at least understand the following: I am not a Biblical scholar, and anything I say should always be checked against scripture. Â Additionally, I consider myself to be a heretic – I have deep disagreements with …
The Link Pile is a sort of bookmarking system for myself. Â Over the years I’ve moved computing platforms multiple times, and have even managed to loose my entire bookmark database a couple of those times due to hard drive crashes -it’s amazing what you don’t think about backing up when you do backups. Â And even …
Quite often I get asked for a portfolio of customers I do web development for. Â Well… I don’t keep one. Â Each customer is different, and each customer has unique needs – so I never bother keeping a formalized portfolio on the company site, but I decided I’d finally set up an informal on on here, …
Various links to stuff I use for studying biblical, mid, and ancient Hebrew language. Â Overall it’s actually fun to study this stuff – but I’m a geek who originally wanted an archaeology degree, so my idea of “fun” can be a bit skewed at times. Â Also – this doesn’t cover everything I use by any …
I am a heretic – I say that from time to time to people who I discuss religion with. Â And, even then, I don’t discuss my religious beliefs in depth – there’s only a few people who get to glimpse my heresy in full. I don’t meant that I won’t discuss religion in depth – …
After I posted about the ‘new’ car last night, I decided to add yet another category to the site, and blog about it: Â Restoration Projects. Â The Jag (who has yet to be named) isn’t the only restoration I need to do – I also need to get The Beast, a 1967 Toyota Land Cruiser finished …
The photo at the left is my new car keys. Â This is significant at SO many levels. First off, I haven’t owned my own car in two years – mine died, and at the time I was struggling pretty hard (still am, really) and couldn’t afford a new one. Â So Doc loaned me his Caddy …
What started as an experimental workout routine has become a rather interesting way of looking at life. I had a theory when I was working out heavily about a year and a half ago: Â rather than one ‘big workout’ everyday – alternating between legs one day and upper body the next – break it down …
Dakota Miller is a talented director / producer here in Wichita, Kansas – or at least, I think he’s talented based on the one thing I’ve seen so far (Thinking back, actually, I might have seen something else he’s done – I know I’ve seen the demo reel for Thespis Productions before.) Â Honestly, I probably …
I have an interesting history when it comes to religion (heck, what don’t I have an interesting history in?) Growing up I went to St. Joe – a public school that also happened to be a Catholic school. By that, I mean I had to attend church services in the mornings, and take Catechism classes. That’s really not that abnormal, except the part where it was a public school. Oh, yeah, and the part where I wasn’t Catholic. Nor, even in first grade, did I have any desire to become Catholic.
I, in fact, went to one of the many flavors of protestant churches, and was protestant. As you can imagine, this causes a problem – the nuns and students at the Catholic public school were telling me I was going to Hell for not being Catholic, or at very minimum, I wasn’t going to Heaven (there’s always that nice ‘catch all’ in between of Purgatory.) And of course, the protestants saying the Catholics were going to Hell for not being protestants.
Every once in a while I really want to to the standard blogger thing – you know, lift some text from a site and make semi-witty comments about it. Â But I never quite get to it, and I don’t really have a place to dump that sort of stuff. Well, now I do – it …
Midnight Ryder’s Junk Pile (Should I work for free?) Read More »
About mid-way through 2010 I slowed down on my personal blog for various reasons – one of them is who actually had access to my blogs, and the other major reason was a lot of the energy that went into my personal blog went into my other writing areas. And no, MidnightRyder.org isn’t my personal …
Turning 29… I made the joke on Facebook and Twitter that I was turning 29 this year – I liked that year. That really wasn’t an arbitrary joke. Â At that point I had bought a house, had a cool car, made $42/k a year (though didn’t really know how to properly deal with that money), …
Turning 29…, Messianic Judaism, The House, 29 Again…, iPhone Apps, Fame? Read More »
All right ladies and gentlemen (I use both terms loosely 😉 cross your fingers.  I’m not gonna say what I’m up to, but, in the next 48 hours I’m going to do something so bold and life changing I could use the extra luck 🙂  If it fails, nothing is lost – but if I get what …
Remnant of Israel in a strange way, I’m spending a lot of effort deluding myself. Â I’ve said to more than one person that I went, and I’ll go again but I don’t know if it’s a “just one more time” thing, or the beginning of a change. Â More like than not, it’s the latter. Â Remnant …
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The Ladder “It’s a long way to the top, If you wanna Rock and Roll…” I said it would take three or four months for the transition to entertainment to happen, and it looks like I’m coming out the other side. Â It’s still a long ways to where I need to be, but I can …
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Kat Saga… …is over. Â Both of us stuck a fork in it and called it good. Â Sometimes, that’s just the way it goes 🙂 Â I’m still hurt that she never really told me what was wrong, but I’ve got a couple good guesses. Â But is it relevant? Â *SHRUG* Though, there’s that thing in the back …
When Skyler Lovelace of Pixel Time and I sat down and discussed the idea of an Introduction to Game Development (and a Game Development for Teens class) for Pixel Time, we threw together a quick “marketing blurb” on what my accomplishments were. It was quick and simple: “Sickmon is a popular speaker at IndieGamesCon, an …
The Kat Saga, part 1: I had second thoughts at the start, I said to myself, hold on to your heart Now I know the woman that you are, and you’re wonderful so far, And that’s more than I hoped for. — Billy Joel, For The Longest Time So, Davis meets interesting girl. Â Interesting girl …
“Life moves pretty fast.  You don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller Today is Wednesday. Monday was a holiday, so there’s only been two functional days so far in the week.  I used Monday up building fences at the farm (which, for me, was an excellent …
And then the next twist… Something nagged at the back of my head a bit, to be quite honest. Â Kat had said I met her qualifications for a guy in her life better than anyone she had met. Â And then dropped the whole thing. Â Call me funny, but something just didn’t seem right about that. …
No, Seriously… OK, I’m starting to get a little cheezed at the universe at this point. Â Writing this, all I can do is look up, shake my head, and say “No, seriously, you’re really just fucking with me now, right?” So… Kat and I did indeed go out on a date (actually, maybe two – …
OK, this is one of those “themed” entries I like doing – so I’ll start by getting a song stuck in your head, just like it’s been stuck in mine for a while… “I got some news to tell ya – Woahoho – about some wild, wild life” — Talking Heads, Wild, Wild Life Life …
Well, finally. When I moved the blog, the goal was to start using it quite frequently. That was last year’s plan, anyway. In fact, I’ve got stubs of articles written in a folder, but I’ve just never gotten around to finishing them and recording the podcast. And of course, the site also started to look …
PAIN! So I’ve decided I was going to do something insane. Â Come mid-May, I’m going to pick up a 180 lb log that’s about 16 feet long, and throw as far as I can. Â Now, as you might imagine, only the Scotts could come up with something as insane as this – it’s call a …
