In movies like Dances With Wolves you see the nobility of the Sioux Indian tribes and their communion with nature. It is contrasted with the nasty wastefulness of the Eurotrash-descendant invaders (how’s that for rewriting the whole “settler” and “Manifest Destiny” ideas?).
Well I’m doing my part to become more like the Earth-harmonious peoples of [...]

Invariably when I’m working nights the phone rings 3 or 4 times in the afternoon. Usually it is between noon and 3 p.m. that I will get all these calls. This is basically the no-win zone for me as I haven’t slept enough at that point and if I don’t go back to sleep [...]

The single biggest waste of my time has to be computer games. It’s unreal how much time and energy I actually put into screwing around on solitaire, freecell, diamond mine (gem drop to some), Counter-Strike, Text Twist, and assorted others.
I don’t watch much TV, so I try to rationalize it by saying that I [...]

Having said in my last post that Dad never strived enough for his dreams, I have to search for a way to get The Automan Empire going. I am going to change my focus on this to something that does not include the actual physical restoration of vehicles. I am going to [...]

I had always been critical of my father’s lack of drive. Dad was a dreamer and a romantic and yet he never really pursued any of his myriad talents. In fact, as far as employment goes, he played it so safe that he never really put himself in a position to achieve much [...]

I’m in kind of a quandary as far as posting anymore reminiscences about Dad. I don’t want to keep putting up all the sugary sweet “I love my dear departed Father” weepfests. He was a cool guy, but he had his issues, too. I mean, obviously he had his problems, he shot [...]

I went to see Return of the King yesterday at the Regal Augusta Exchange 20, and I must say it was pretty good. It hurried through some things I wanted it to delve into, and vice versa, but overall I enjoyed the movie.
Having said that I, the movie was temporarily interrupted by a power [...]

The recent ice storms here have knocked out the power to my house intermittently for the last 2 days. This last outage has lasted for more than 18 hours so we decided to cut and run. I’m posting this from my in-laws where we will be spending the night. It’s nice to [...]

I believe I will go see this movie today. I’m figuring a noon showing of a 3 hour movie on a Monday can’t have many people in it. At least I’m hoping so. Some of the best times I’ve had watching movies was in nearly empty theaters. It’s just more fun [...]

The subject of race has been on my mind more lately than it has in some time. I generally don’t think about it much, because I don’t waste time on chasing my tail. What I mean by that is that you can’t garner any usable information about someone from knowing their race, so [...]