When Thoughts Meet The Keyboard

Look behind you, stones of Ash and Wood!
Where did you come from?
Can you even remember?
Why did you leave and where are you going?
To some dark, dire end,
Just like the rest of us
...no doubt.
I'll save you the trouble of finding out
I know! I've been there!
Alas, I've only come back as a cruel joke
A whim of the Ones beyond the horizon.
Their realm is dark and dim and tragic
A bastion of evil
A palisade of fagots.
They're vicious and altogether evil.
Don't bother with them.
I"m stuck already, but there's a way.
Go back, tell others.
Stay this course or be forever.
Trapped in an amorphous whirlpool,
Spun around at Their caprice.
For spun you'll be,
Theirs is an unstable land.
Go back, if you can.
Take me with you.

Game Time

It's time to play everybody's favorite game of fact or bull...crap, bullcrap, yes, that's it. Here we go.

1. V-formation flying avians only fly in odd numbers, regardless of symmetry.

2. Caffeine, in its crystalline form, can be used as an explosive.

3. 13 people in the US die every year from nasal complications due to smelly shoes.

4. Ketchup's acidity allows it to 'eat' through aluminum foil.

5. Kansas seceded from the Union in 1968, but then changed its mind.

Tell me what you think in a comment or something.

Apogee of Epiphany

Well, starting on Saturday, sometime in the late afternoon, my life transferred to a zone of existence that can only be described the following way; dark and abyssmal, with false exits that lead even deeper into the void of inky blackness with periodic depressions of no hope whatsoever. Albeit, that is a brief description as I don't want to panic anybody. Anyway, during these interim days, I've had several stunning realizations about my life and life in general that I'd like to share briefly; to get them out there, as it were.

1. My life's motto was given to me on Tuesday after a particular terrible day at work. I know my motto already, but apparently, I'd forgotten it. In addition to Be Prepared, my life's motto is:

Plan (A) for the best, expect the worst, scrap (A) and plan (B) for the worst, then be surprised and happy when (A) goes through.

A long motto I know, but that's how I live my life. Well, I didn't plan for the worst and that made my day just a little more sucky (forgive the lack of an erudite word) on Tuesday because the worst happened. Go fig.

2. Video games serve no purpose and those of us who game and are intelligent enough to realize this fact are in even more trouble. This one hit me whilst I was playing a game and when I decided that I should go do something else, nothing else appealed at that particular moment. Stuck between that proverbial rock and hard place, I continued playing, knowing all the while that I was wasting minutes and hours of my life away. Sad.

3. Well, I can't remember the third one, but know this - It would have shaken the foundations of the earth.