So it is nice to come "home" every so often to remind myself how glad I am that I've moved out. But it's kind of hard when there are cupboards full of food here and three dogs to play with. But as with most things, I don't appreciate it very much until I don't get to experience it on a regular basis. Fortunately the full fridge and spacious rooms don't cloud my perception too much that I don't hear the constant bickering between mom and dad or mom and dad vs. little brother...add in three d...

"Nothing's worn under _my_ kilt. Everything there is in perfect working order. " - David Wangen in a thread on baen's bar about Highland Paratroopers

Man I've only had to work 4 days this week and it seems like it's been dragging a bit. I suppose I can't complain too much about how the week started. Nice warm temperatures and days that I was in charge of a large number of kids no one got severely hurt or lost when their parents showed up, and a significant amount of my hours were spent sledding or building jumps with kids....but man, seriously I'm spent. Luckily I have a fridge full of beer from the housewarming party I threw myself last...

Did I ever say I hated my students? Did I ever call them dumb? They're not--as of today, they're officially great. That's been two days in a row with good in-class discussion, and lest my ears deceive me, a compliment or two to boot. Considering that we're discussing poetry, about which I feel much more qualified than, say, the literature of Kipling or Sophocles or Ghandi, I'm wishing we were going to spend the whole quarter on it instead of three days. Alas, the book review is calling all our...

Okay so I think I'm finally over my liberal guilt of driving a big gas guzzling 1989 car. To be specific the 1989 Lincoln that my parents were kind of enough to shell out $1300 for and I spent $2000 fixing. So this rear wheel drive car is not the best winter mobile ever being that it fish tails around corners with small patches of sand on them in the summer. But seriously I'm on the highway at 6am this morning to be behind three cars driving 35 miles an hour as it's snowing a little bit. I...

I didn't know this, I really didn't. I've been alive for over five decades and I did not understand that the good old US of A was not a democracy. It's a REPUBLIC. A Constitutional Republic to be more exact. The difference between these has been hard for me to grasp but I'm starting to get it. Our founding fathers, (god bless their souls), feared democracy as much as they hated monarchy. They even referred to democracy as MOBocracy, i.e., if the majority of people want something at the expense...

So I don't think there are any specific words that make my hair stand on end. But a few of my friends (all who happen to be girls) have a number of different words they can't stand hearing. One in particular hates the words "hump," "globalization," and the expressions "f__k your brains out." I have some adversion to hearing people referred to as "pussies," or "fags" but the words themselves in other contexts don't bother me at all, in fact, I myself may even use them. I only dislik...

I always like the name expatriot, has a great rebellious tone to it. I'm not ready to move out of the country...maybe visting another country would be a good start. Though I love my state of MN I'm wondering if there are many here who have stories of moving out of state to pursue a job or just a change of pace. There's a lot holding me here, but there's also a lot pulling me to do something else. Geographically my knowledge and experience is very limited and I'd like to expand it. So maybe ...

lately I've been obsessed with finding a way out of this rat race. personal freedoms are rapidly diminishing and the government is taking away our rights faster than i realize. the government is us...yea right. we no longer have effective representation. i don't think of myself as a crackpot patriot but just someone looking for freedom. i now realize that our "government" is controlled by the federal reserve banks. the constitution is being ignored by all of the judicial processes. the irs opera...

So my identity crisis continues in my love life if it can be deemed such a thing. I think I relearning all the business all over again. I just had the whole "this isn't really what I'm looking for" talk with a girl I had a few dates with for the first time. Don't get me wrong, I've had breakups but that was actually something had actually started. I'm beginning to wonder how much success there is in the get-to-know-you dating world, or if there is a lot more success in the already-know-you a...

I can see the abundant lists of discussion topics buzzing with points and counterpoints and for the first time in a really long time I'm choosing not to join. Anyone who knows me knows how opinionated I am, or rather that I enjoy having my say at anything I can claim some knowledge of or experience with. But I've definitely been inflicted with a strong dose of apathy. I still feel the same way I do about many issues political and otherwise but I'm not half as intent on sharing with everyone e...

Executive Summary: I'm the President & CEO of Stardock Corp. Beyond the usual strategic management work, I am also directly involved with the day to day operations of several of our key projects. I also do a lot of writing, skinning and programming. Below is a partial summary of my background. Most Important Talent: Really really fast typer. Education Graduated in 1994 with a degree in Electrical Engineering with specialty of Computer Engineering. Taught Elec...

New Page 1 My yesterday night exploit Don't tell me that I'm a geek, I already knows that...   Yesterday, we were celebrating T. birthday. T. is an Englishguy that works in my lab, he look like a rugby man and he is actually a rugby man.Sometime life make things well. So we went on a pub crawling and after 8 pubs,we end in a club. We were totally fucked up, and we start dancing in a stylethat punk would  describe as elegant and restrained, on another hand, I'msure that the...

Well today i thought i'd give you people just a tid-bit of my past....lets just say my parents found out about my gift when i was about 4...they abndoned me and i lived on the streets till i was 13 and Crawford came and took me under his icy wing to be one of Schwarz.(thats how it roughly happened)... now i'm a killer. the word "assasin" is to clean for me....we kill and thers nothing glamourus about it.....its mindless slaughter. we take any mission we can get for the filthy money evry dark hum...

Today i was my friend Yuyu! Ack! ;; it was scary because i had to oogle hot guys and i glomped a close friend of mine no names mentioned! He he he!^.^ it was weird being a girl!! oh well i wonder how she did being me for the day? You see we traded names and our personalities today so she had to be me and i had to be her! Scarry!@_@!! So in order to let my class know i wasnt myself today i put on the board that my name was miss Yuyu! most of my class will never let me live it down now and i have ...