I was in high school when I stumbled over the single object which would change everything for me. When I was in high school, I wasn’t interested in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. I didn’t know what they were. I didn’t like elves, I didn’t day dream about pretty men wearing 100 pounds of shiny steel armor and still managing to look good. I didn’t imagine what the scales of a dragon looked like sparkling in the...

April 16th, 2009. 2:00 am – 9:00 am. Earlier on the 15th when we arrived at the Orlando Greyhound bus station, I was in for a mightly surprise. For three hours on the first evening when I started my trip I was literally in heaven. The bus was sparsely populated and I had two bus seats of my own to easily stretch out across. The bus, while not being new was at least relatively clean enough and it was quiet. All that changed in...

When it comes to computers, there are pink components, and there are good components, but there are scant few good pink components. While for most geeks this is not a problem, for me it is as the better half loves the color pink. So, in addition to doing every odd job I could think of to fill my time, I decided to right a serious geek wrong and make the pink computer I know she wants. I am not a case modder; not by a long shot. I put...

Florida holds the skies of my heart.  In winter time, those sparse few weeks where the oppressive heat does not come down upon your head like a bucket of luke-warm scuzzy bathwater once used on your cat—the cool night heavens are alight with painters frenzy. Bright slash-ribbons of 1920’s red lipstick curl lazily in whisps through the pansy-purple clouds that dot the horizon.   In summer, the Florida sunsets turn into a pure riot of...

As some of you may know and as some of you may not know–tomorrow evening I will be boarding a classy Grayhound bus and traveling from Florida all the way up to Alberta Canada. In Alberta rests the two possibly not sane people who decided to bring doom upon the earth by spawning me. I shall go visit them and make them remember why children after the age of 10 should be thrown to the badgers. It’s a three day trip via bus. Three...

So many people this year, and every year, will spend Christmas alone. Separated from their family through school, through circumstances, through loss. So many out there will spend Christmas and New Years struggling through the weight of depression and the lonliness that curses us all. This year, be a light. Be a light for someone. Call someone you know will be alone this year. Write someone you know is far away from home. Hug someone you...