Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
I've been thinking about moving the various items about places we visit and eat to their own posts. Since I am away this week at the Episcopal Youth Event, I thought I could insert the first one here. We have been exploring for a while. So I have a certain backlog of stories to share... Continue Reading →
After a good week we have a week of challenge. I will be at the Episcopal Youth Event all this week, so no weigh in. The good news is that I'll be working and should get plenty of walking in. The bad news is that I'll surrounded by food intended to appeal to teenagers. But... Continue Reading →
Tropic Thunder (2008) - Through a set of bizarre circumstances a group of actors shooting a big budget Viet Nam war movie suddenly discover themselves in a real shooting war. They're over budget, behind schedule and their newbie director dies in an accident. The actors assume everything is more of the director's attemtp to create... Continue Reading →
A tiny bout of homesickness this week for the lady of the house and me. It's the week of Independence Day and we won't be in Mayville. In the last 25+ years I've missed the parade, well, never. I've been late a couple times when I had to leave Senior High Conference. But the parade... Continue Reading →
Daughter of Elysium (1993) and The Children Star (1998) by Joan Slonczewski - Two novels from a common universe. Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and brings that hard science background to her work. These books make up two thirds of the "Elysium Cycle". The stories examine events on several planets when an intelligent... Continue Reading →
Yeah, baby! The knee has been better (not right yet, but better) and the eating has been with some discipline. And The Other Guy took a beating this week. I mean, TOOK A BEATING! Great way to head into the new month. My resolution remains : I want to am going to be The Guy... Continue Reading →
Fail Safe (2000) - Set at the height of the Cold War, a computer glitch launches American nuclear bombers toward the Soviet Union. Because they have passed the "fail safe" point (a precautionary stage designed to avoid these kinds of accidents) they can not be recalled. The President of the United States faces an unimaginable... Continue Reading →
It's starting to feel like "home" in our new apartment. Pictures going up on the walls, almost all the boxes unpacked (last several are all my stuff and I have no idea where it's going to go. So I'm employing the age old solution to such problems. I'm ignoring them). The only official change still... Continue Reading →
Mythed Connections by Michael G. Munz (2013) - Three short stories that take the figures of Greek mythology and plant them firmly in the modern world. In "The Atheist and the Ferryman" a young man discovers there's an enormous river running through his basement. With a strange and grumpy old man in charge of bringing... Continue Reading →
This is so frustrating. Let me tell you about "The Other Guy". The Other Guy is my name for me when I was over 200 pounds. I was unhappy and out of shape. Clothes felt uncomfortable so I just wore them as baggy as possible. My body hurt and it was hurting. The blood tests got worse and worse... Continue Reading →
