Pleh-scepades

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

At our gaming session last weekend, CrossfireQ-Tip asked me what it was like to be a real-life D&D character. It was an odd question, but it related to something that happened several years ago, when I was learning about energy work. Jimbo, the owner of the net cafe we hung out at, had injured his knee pretty badly. He was playing D&D with us, and because of the cramped space, we kept bumping into his leg, which didn’t help matters. Afterwards I offered and he accepted an energy healing.

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Into the Blue

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Tomorrow is Joyce’s last day at TSA. And then she’s done with the flying public. No more jackasses who think that if they get offended enough, the rules won’t apply to them. No more calorically abundant individuals who opt out of the full-body scanners, yet think that the officers on the checkpoint are simply dying for a chance to get them a handful of that flabby cellulite. No more office politics and shenanigans, at least for a while. Then it’s a month before she ships off to Basic Military Training.

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The Social Quandary of Young Men (and Implications on Website Design)

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Oi. Another night where my thoughts are too riled up for me to easily sleep, but my focus is too relaxed to do much productive. I feel like a bug zapper. There’s the light and the hum, but no catalyst for sparks of any kind. Perhaps setting some thoughts I’ve been mulling over into writing will help.

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Drupal, Drupal, Drupal

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

I’m busy building the website for Dick Richards, Private Eye in Drupal. John recommended it to me, and it’s turning out to be much more user friendly than I thought. I already have the base styling and page layout down, and the inbuilt functionality, plus a few modules, which will make it easier to account for any future expansions, and I’m writing a custom module to handle the HTML markup for purposes of styling, as well as some additional tokens that will help streamline some of the content generation.

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The SECRETS of the POWER COSMIC

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

My wife and I ended up at Books-A-Million this evening and, while we were browsing through the New Age section, she brought The Secrets of High Magic by Francis Melville to my attention. It’s a cute maroon book with a wizard travelling through hyperspace embossed on the cover in faux gold leaf. The page edges are rough and uneven, in the “old style,” and the pages are filled with alchemical and ceremonial magic designs. What cracks me up about it is the formatting. I’m still smiling and laughing.

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A Shift in View

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

It’s yet another night where I’m too antsy to sleep, but also too tired to coherently frame the next few scenes I need to write, whether in summary or in Simlish. So perhaps I shall ground, run energy and blog about some insights that are sneaking up on me and hope everything make sense. In a way, it’s an answer to my question from a few days ago, even if it sounds distant. But I don’t know if it’s the right one.

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A Touch of Insomnia

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

It’s been hard to sleep tonight. Even after a shower, the burning anger is still uncomfortable and hard to process. The prayer beads help keep me calm, but when I let pieces of it through it twists my face into a snarl, a sneer, and I feel a momentary urge to destroy something, even if it’s just wadding up a piece of paper and chunking it down the garbage disposal. That’ll teach those trees.

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Current Reading (My Life and Hard Times)

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

For Christmas, my wife got me a book on chakras for Christmas. It intrigued me because of the way it took on the subject matter, but I’m not going to name it because I’ve been less than impressed. (Not my wife’s fault; I chose the book.) Though it’s written in a scholarly style, many of the sources don’t pan out and there are several slip ups where it’s clear the author doesn’t know much about science. Particularly a part about quarks being energy which vibrates slower than the speed or light and tachyons being energy which vibrates faster than the speed of light. It’s technically true, since quarks have mass and “tachyon” is the name given to a hypothetical particle which, by definition, always goes faster than the speed of light. Still, as an attempt to capitalize on the scientific cachet of the Standard Model, it’s woefully uninformed.

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Absentmindedness Strikes Again

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

I got the first editing pass for Dick Richards, Private Eye back a bit before Christmas, and spent the last two days going over the changes. While doing so, absentmindedness struck again.

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Ben & Sarah: A Murder in Mississippi

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I’ve gotten busy and distracted. A friend of mine, Jeff Conine, wrote Ben & Sarah: A Murder in Mississippi a while back. From what I’ve read, the rhythms are reminiscent of Faulkner. Since Jeff’s always liked them and lived above a jazz club while he was doing interviews at the prison, that’s not too surprising.

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