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I've been reading some of your blogs, and so many people are going through rough times right now. It so tugs at my heart strings -- even though I don't know most of you I wish I could make all the bad stuff go away or help somehow. All I can offer though are big cyber hugs for everyone!

Edited to add: it's kinda weird for me to read about so many people in their 20s having the same problems I had in my 20s. Twenty years later, I still have some of the same issues, though it's easier to… Continue

I've always been fascinated by humor, and specifically by other people's sense of humor.

I find a lot of things in life funny, but some of my friends think I'm weird for it. (Not that I care if they think I'm weird, it just makes everything that much funnier.)

Driving down the highway with some friends, I often see mangled cardboard boxes lying on the side of the road. Almost every time I say "Oh my gawd! That's so sad, a dead box. You see more and more on the road like that… Continue

It knows. It knows what's going to happen and it's plotting against me. It knows that it is soon to be replaced by a bigger, better, faster, newer computer. It knows that its days of tyranny -- deciding which games it will run and whether or not it will deign to boot up -- are about to end. It knows that it is about to be dethroned, cannabalized, and exiled to a vast desolate part of the planet I call "my closet."

Alas, I know this accursed beast will have the final word, the last laug

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I have an alien in my navel.