Thinking about property insurance claims? I bet you are. So listen up: I was a property insurance adjuster for Citizens Property Insurance from 2005-2007, dealing with the aftermath of the 2004 hurricane season, and I’m going to give you advice. I know you all know...
I got my livejournal account wayyyy back in 2004; from there I updated it irregularly until I fell into fandom in 2007, when I became a power user of LJ and a huge proponent of the site. I paid for my accounts annually and probably would have kept doing so until...
I cannot tolerate the idea that such a love might bring the worst kind of loss and grief into anyone’s life.
The first photo accompanying this blog post is the first I ever saw of Keely, which was on her bio at the Big Dog Rescue website back in August, 2016. My plan had been to spend a few weeks perusing available dog listings before deciding to meet a few and then pick the...
If you've been keeping up with my blog at all (I mean, who hasn't, amirite?!?!?) then you've been keeping up with my "blog a day for a year" posts, right up until there were no more blogs-a-day. I stopped before I hit the 200 mark, so yeah, far from making the goal of...
I don't spend much time feeling sorry for myself, but tonight is one of those nights. Maybe it was work being a rolling clusterfuck of IT issues all day. Maybe it was my bus running late and thus making me miss my connection so I ended up waiting around in the cold at...
The Self-Authoring Suite at http://www.selfauthoring.com/ I figured to just put it there in the subheading to get past the suspense. I want to make clear, though, that the "breaking" I'm talking about was actually a form of progress for me. In mid 2015, suffering from...
I don't have an answer to that question. Putting myself on a schedule to do anything is something I actively, aggressively resist. I would rarely show up for work on time if doing so didn't risk getting fired and, therefore, becoming homeless. Which is to say, it's...
I could, theoretically, push myself very very hard in the direction of my goals -- lose sleep, live off coffee, eat irregularly, rarely see the outdoors. But...why? In our culture, doing "MORE BETTER FASTER" is seen as the highest goal. I have friends who talk about...