When I was younger I never threw anything away. This isn't to say I was a hoarder. I threw mostly useless shit away sure. But I was a collector (as in collectibles) so I had a lot of things that were collected. Maybe it was some OCD "everything in a line" problem. I liked to have the collection, complete the collection, and think that I'd never get rid of the collection. I had ...

I've disappeared for a while and most of it has to do with work. Well... not actually work, but instead a strange desire (more accurately a "false need") to accumulate more work in order to accumulate more money. Owning a house is a bit of a shock to the system, and I might have become overtly paranoid with hoarding cold hard cash. I've learned several things in this endeavor.

1.) I hate consulting ...

Things did not go as planned this weekend. I had missed the episode of Fringe on Thursday night (DVR'ing it), and didn't watch it later in the night like I normally do. I didn't watch it Friday either, but figured Saturday could be a day of television and comic books and I could get two blog posts done by the time everything was all finished.

The first problem I ran into was ...

This year was going to be a special year. Halloween is my favorite time of year. It's my favorite holiday. Being an occultist and a horror movie fan, you tend to enjoy the freakish nature of the holiday. More than that though, Halloween is in the Fall (or Autumn if you will), which is my favorite season. There's something about the Fall that's special - a preparedness, a fun-loving, adventurous time as the ...