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Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 8 (2025-08-17 18:51:53)
Or Gangnam Style...
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 8 (2025-08-13 22:49:27)
Also, congrats! It's a wild ride, frustrating at time, but well worth the effort.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 8 (2025-08-13 22:48:42)
My son is 19 now, so we're long past most of the childhood stage. The most important thing is to be there. Hold them, feed them, talk to them, read to them. Sleep when they sleep. The sleep loss is killer. I used to see flashing lights in my vision, so take every opportunity to sleep. The first couple of years can be rough, but you'll get through it. Just be there and be patient; kids really know how to push buttons. Frankly, kids can be a lot of fun. They're wide open to experiences and they give you an opportunity to see the world through new eyes. If you want my opinion: Start saving for college now. We lucked out and NM has free tuition at state schools for HS grads, but even a mid-tier university is insanely expensive.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 7 (2025-07-26 00:56:57)
Wow. Now I'm really pissed that I missed it. That sounds right up my alley. We've got stuff like that in New Mexico, but you have to travel all over the damned state to see it.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 7 (2025-07-24 23:47:40)
Yes, the Waterfront. I don't think we made it into Ye Old Curiosity Shop but it sounds like something that would have been fun.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 7 (2025-07-22 23:30:29)
We don't have a "normal" summer holiday. Last year we went to Mexico and saw Chichen Itza and swam in cenotes. This year we went to Seattle and saw My Chemical Romance and poked around the docks. We try to shake it up and do something that sounds fun.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 6 (2025-06-29 16:11:17)
I had to look that one up. Looks like fun and it's on sale on Steam!
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 6 (2025-06-29 13:23:50)
Writing it. My first foray into Sci-Fi after a long time in urban fantasy. Although, this 3rd book is fighting me. I may as well be in a temporal loop.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 6 (2025-06-29 09:29:00)
Finishing off the 3rd book in a series while I wait for the 1st one to finally get published. Went back to Kenpo. Cleaned all my guns and went to the range. Trolling conservatives on Twitter. The usual.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-06-01 08:05:21)
Oof. I remember those days. "After Christ, Devil comes!"
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-05-31 08:16:20)
Random thought: Does anyone else remember the Satanic Panic of the late 80s/early 90s? When the country thought a literal Satan was wandering around stealing souls with Judas Priest albums? What a weird time.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-05-03 13:08:00)
I gather Farmington kicked the loons out of office and it lightened up a bit, but I haven't been back in years. I went to college in Portales, NM and it was just a screwed up. When Sunday liquor sales were on the ballot, the churches bussed people in to vote it down. And this was in a town that had drive-up liquor sales until the mid 90s. Sunday drinking: bad. Drinking and driving: Okay.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-05-02 19:57:18)
So, a bit of a tale here, but bear with me. I promise I'll throw in a joke or two to make it more fun. I grew up in Farmington, New Mexico. It's a little burg in the northwest corner of NM right up next to the Navajo reservation. Predominantly Christian as you would imagine. One of the local Baptist churches had wormed members into every little nook and cranny of government in that town and they ran the place with an iron fist. When "The Last Temptation of Christ" was released, they allowed it to be played at one theater, one time, at midnight. And still protested it. And probably took notes about who was there. It was the kind of town where randos would corner you in a park and make you pray - that actually happened to me and some buddies when we were in our early teens. Totally taking advantage of the "respect your elders" ethos of the town. I was nominally Anglican Catholic at the time and was, therefore, "less than". I'm more of a vocal about my weird beliefs these days and that definitely wouldn't have flown. At one point, after church I was having lunch with our pastor when Farmington's one and only black family walked in. He went from nice guy to the most racist motherfucker I've seen in the blink of an eye and loudly vocal about it. That, almost as much our Bishop's three-hour sermons on the horrors of abortion, was the beginning of the end for me and church. I later found out our pastor was gay. Personally, I couldn't have cared less about that and still don't, but I would have thought a gay dude in the middle of Baptist wonderland would have some indication of what it's like to be on the receiving end of bigotry. Remember the Satanic Panic of the late 80s? That magical time when the country though 100% that a literal Satan was walking the streets and handing out Judas Priest records to unsuspecting white kids? That hit Farmington like the fist of angry god. The Baptists were seeing Satan everywhere. Especially in the music - I was and am a big Iron Maiden fan - and the music's imagery. Maiden made some great music and their associated art was dope AF, but it was the kind of thing that could send the mentally-deficient paranoids that ran Farmington into apoplectic fits. Our high school traditionally didn't have a dress code. As long as something was too over-the-top, they'd let you wear it. I had a baller-ass denim jacket with a full back patch of Eddie from the "2 Minutes To Midnight" poster and covered with various buttons. (The jacket is long gone, but I've still got the buttons!) It was the kind of jacket that most people nodded at and a few shook their heads about. Along comes the Satanic Panic and the churchies who ran everything decided the best way to protect unsuspecting people from falling into the devil's clutches was to ban anything with non-Christian religious imagery. That included most of the metal shirts at the time - and my jacket. Remember the Navajo reservation bit at the beginning? Those folks have their beliefs and their own imagery and they were pissed as hell that their beliefs fell under this new rabid scrubbing of non-Christian stuff. Since they ran everything, we all sort of acquiesced even if we'd try to push buttons every now and then. I was a 2nd semester senior so it didn't impact me too much, but I still wore my Anthrax "Among the Living" shirt, knowing full-well they wouldn't get the joke. So, there you go: Let religion get a fingerhold and they'll abuse the hell out of it. Even before the panic, we couldn't wear shorts to school because it was offensive. All these petty little power game things.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-04-23 12:59:27)
Shrinking them worked like a charm.
Comment on The Infinite Thread Part 5 (2025-04-21 20:02:29)
Gotcha. I'll try shrinking them.