A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Saturday, August 21, 2004
Loose Ends
I spoke to my father-in-law, Bill, yesterday. I'd been pretty concerned about him and Donna since they were right in the path of Hurricane Charley. Apparently, even though they are almost at the center of the state, the hurricane was still at Force 3 when it hit (first time a hurricane has hit there since the 1920's). I hadn't been able to get in touch with them for a week, which made me more concerned.
Things Learned Thus Far
- Donna is down in Fort Lauderdale with Tammy (Ferg's sister) and is fine.
- Bill is back out on the road again already, since he can't afford to let a hurricane cause him to lose a week's pay.
- No one has been home to receive the package I sent them with the letter to them and the letter/packet to Ferg. He's promised to send it out as soon as possible, though, and without giving Ferg my address. (He even offered to drop it from some other state somewhere when he was on the road again.)
- He says they both understand why I left and that he thinks I did the right thing. He also said they still love me and I'll always be family. I really love those guys.
As I mentioned before, I've been avoiding Ferg's emails, so he snuck one in on me by sending me a PM on BuffyGuide. That would mean he's lurking there. Oh well...I haven't posted there since the 6th and I haven't read anything since I left because my computer time is limited and there's so much new stuff that catching up would be nearly impossible. Anyway, he sent me a PM because he wanted to tell me that he's "willing" to give me my freedom, but we "needed to talk" to "settle" things. He even promised no confrontations. No thank you. I emailed him and told him the bare bones of what I'd written in his letter and told him I'd either initiate divorce procedures when I could afford it or he could. I also asked him to contact me via his parents. (In other words, I wish he'd quit calling my phone and Nikki's phone. Neither of us wish to talk to him. I wonder if there's some way to block the number via Sprint on a cell phone.)
Anyway, he registered as ACU2769. He probably won't post, since his only purpose appears to have been to contact me in a way that I wasn't expecting and less likely to delete. He's been bozo'd and I've blocked him from my email addresses.
3:21 PM
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