Illuminatea

Despite the fact that I'm now counting the hours until the election is officially over -- election season has been *so long* and so incredibly divisive from all angles -- I'm aware of the fact (and even somewhat excited by the fact) that no matter how it turns out, it'll be one for the history books. The hope, of course, is that it's one for the ...

Summer is here and school is out, so the kids are looking for more to do. One thing they won't be doing for the next couple of weeks, however, is riding their bikes. You see, some bastard(s) stole their bikes at some point in the last couple of days (we were out most of Friday, so it could have been any time from Friday afternoon until Saturday ...

I was looking back through my LiveJournal and found this piece from 2004 Jun 30. For some reason it struck me, so first I'm going to repost the content here, then I'll add my additional thoughts after. Put on the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring tonight to help grease my mental wheels while catching up on the badly neglected Exchange ...