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silveradeptWork today - opening to closing. Work tomorrow - opening to closing. Work weekends can be particularly loathsome. Ah, well. Such was the nature of the beast when I signed on.
Making one's money Godless, and the question of whether that's currency defacement, and thus a crime, or not. (Defacing the currency is a crime? Now I'm surprised that we can burn flags at all.)
Vegan diet reverses diabetes symptoms? How does that work out? The weight loss part I get, but the blood sugar lowering, too? Is the strict vegan diet just low in all sorts of sugars?
How close is the quantum computer to reality? Closer than we think, it appears. Perhaps not quite here yet, but maybe getting closer.
House passes mandatory filtering bill. Eh-hem. LIBRARIAN SMASH! While it would prevent, perhaps, the MySpace makeout session, restricting chat and social networking sites in schools and libraries is really asking for trouble - and for library usage to go waaaaaay down.
From the correlation-is-causation, and it's a Message From YHWH, to boot, The Whirlwind called Katrina. Apparently, every time there's talk of Israel giving up land or cease-fire happening, some natural disaster follows, be it hurricane, earthquake, or whatever. Then again, almost every day, something that could be considered a natural disaster of unnatural proportions occurs. So it's not really an angry YHWH. Either that, or Phelps is right and YHWH's just generally pissed off at humanity enough to visit vengeance on us regularly. If that's true, though, then people should find themselves a less vengeful and more forgiving and loving god.
A random-but-potentially-interesting subject. Potential angst and repeat subject warning. Playing RPGs awakens my hero/adventure longings, it's true. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll put them away, perhaps in some way, I'm addicted to them, along with all other forms of stories, because there's a hero who makes it work out. Or even an antihero who saves the world while not caring. Stories where the protagonists fail have a profound impact on me, in the sense of "That's not how it should end, is it? Where's the triumphant phoenix rebirth? Where's the Continue screen?"
My own narrative, compared to the average piece of literature, is sadly lacking. If my life were an anime/manga, it's likely more a "slice-of-life" possibly straying occasionally into the realm of situation comedy than anything like a fantasy or action piece. I'm more Boys Be than Kingdom Hearts. (Heck, I can't even claim something like Kimagure Orange Road.) It's not that I'm asking for permission to live my life out in a particular way (I alrady have![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greyweirdo's permission to be myself, if it were a case of that), it's more that I'm waiting for my master narrative to begin. Insert NPC-ness rant here, really.
Out of that, though, there's a bit of a realization - heroes and heroic situations happen in both stories and out here in life where there's a significant amount of danger involved. Often times there are lives at stake. If I'm going to be a hero, and a grand hero or superhero, then I'm going to have to be able to face those kinds of situations regularly and without flinching or tiring. No wonder most of the comic book heroes are superpowered in some way. Do I have the stuff to be a hero? Do I ever want to find out? It's being torn between feeling like I'm not living up to my full potential and the want to have a life only occasionally ruffled by small things. The choice between liberty and security, to some degree. Of course, on certain things, it's way too late to back down now, and those things should actually end up helping me toward liberty and some security. Meh. Just a suspension in the tune of my life. Resolution should be arriving soon. In the meantime, I'll keep bashing Heartless and living vicariously through other heroes. If I'm supposed to join their ranks, the time will come. I just hope I'm ready for it when it arrives.
Making one's money Godless, and the question of whether that's currency defacement, and thus a crime, or not. (Defacing the currency is a crime? Now I'm surprised that we can burn flags at all.)
Vegan diet reverses diabetes symptoms? How does that work out? The weight loss part I get, but the blood sugar lowering, too? Is the strict vegan diet just low in all sorts of sugars?
How close is the quantum computer to reality? Closer than we think, it appears. Perhaps not quite here yet, but maybe getting closer.
House passes mandatory filtering bill. Eh-hem. LIBRARIAN SMASH! While it would prevent, perhaps, the MySpace makeout session, restricting chat and social networking sites in schools and libraries is really asking for trouble - and for library usage to go waaaaaay down.
From the correlation-is-causation, and it's a Message From YHWH, to boot, The Whirlwind called Katrina. Apparently, every time there's talk of Israel giving up land or cease-fire happening, some natural disaster follows, be it hurricane, earthquake, or whatever. Then again, almost every day, something that could be considered a natural disaster of unnatural proportions occurs. So it's not really an angry YHWH. Either that, or Phelps is right and YHWH's just generally pissed off at humanity enough to visit vengeance on us regularly. If that's true, though, then people should find themselves a less vengeful and more forgiving and loving god.
A random-but-potentially-interesting subject. Potential angst and repeat subject warning. Playing RPGs awakens my hero/adventure longings, it's true. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll put them away, perhaps in some way, I'm addicted to them, along with all other forms of stories, because there's a hero who makes it work out. Or even an antihero who saves the world while not caring. Stories where the protagonists fail have a profound impact on me, in the sense of "That's not how it should end, is it? Where's the triumphant phoenix rebirth? Where's the Continue screen?"
My own narrative, compared to the average piece of literature, is sadly lacking. If my life were an anime/manga, it's likely more a "slice-of-life" possibly straying occasionally into the realm of situation comedy than anything like a fantasy or action piece. I'm more Boys Be than Kingdom Hearts. (Heck, I can't even claim something like Kimagure Orange Road.) It's not that I'm asking for permission to live my life out in a particular way (I alrady have
greyweirdo's permission to be myself, if it were a case of that), it's more that I'm waiting for my master narrative to begin. Insert NPC-ness rant here, really. Out of that, though, there's a bit of a realization - heroes and heroic situations happen in both stories and out here in life where there's a significant amount of danger involved. Often times there are lives at stake. If I'm going to be a hero, and a grand hero or superhero, then I'm going to have to be able to face those kinds of situations regularly and without flinching or tiring. No wonder most of the comic book heroes are superpowered in some way. Do I have the stuff to be a hero? Do I ever want to find out? It's being torn between feeling like I'm not living up to my full potential and the want to have a life only occasionally ruffled by small things. The choice between liberty and security, to some degree. Of course, on certain things, it's way too late to back down now, and those things should actually end up helping me toward liberty and some security. Meh. Just a suspension in the tune of my life. Resolution should be arriving soon. In the meantime, I'll keep bashing Heartless and living vicariously through other heroes. If I'm supposed to join their ranks, the time will come. I just hope I'm ready for it when it arrives.
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Date: 2006-07-30 04:09 pm (UTC)