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Code_5153

Don't make me release my flying monkeys.

About Me

.r{} Since the birth of the baby Panda at the National Zoo, I've developed an addiction to Panda Cam. Which Fraggle Rock Character Are You?
You are Wembley Fraggle.
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My Interests

Not in any particular order: music (very eclectic taste), computers. surfing the net (the world's largest library at your fingertips), yahoo message boards, film, whether indie or major motion picture, (good) art, some TV, blogging, books, true crime, fiddling with photoshop, web design, IIS adminsistration, sleeping, my cats, ACC basketball, reading (eclectic taste), and above all, laughing.

I'd like to meet:

Friends I don't know yet.

Music:

Alison Krause & Union Station, Bruce Hornsby, Dylan, Rachmaninoff, Ravelle, The Eagles, Queen, Sting, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, David Bowie, Smoky Robinson, U2, Tina Turner.

Movies:

Pi, Casablanca, Now Voyager, All About Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Steel Magnolias, all the Die Hard movies, Terminator, Predator, Nick of Time, Donnie Brasco, Pirates of the Caribbean, Witness, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein, Christmas Family Vacation, Scrogged, Ghostbusters, Riverman, Manhunter, To Live and Die in LA, Ransom, All The Right Stuff, Stigmata.

Television:

Original CSI, Monk, Dead Zone, Medium, L & O Criminal Intent, Will & Grace, 24, The Closer.

Books:

AUTHORS: Stephen King, Anya Seton, DuMaurier, Orwell, Stewart, Robert Keppel, Dave Barry, Neitzche.Most Influential Books: Farenheit 451, 1984, The Stand, Catch-22, Anthem, Animal Farm.

Heroes:

Stephen Hawking, The Dali Lama, Tina Turner, Max Clelland, and anyone to tells George Bush to F.O.

My Blog

How many stages, indeed?

So, here I was, Friday night, in the supermarket, trying to remember why in the world we stayed in church so long on Good Friday, and it hit me like a ton of bricks that it was because, duh,...
Posted by Code_5153 on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:07:00 PST

How many stages of Grief?

Let me see: I had at least 3 years of "anticipatory grief," marked by sheer unrelenting anger. I've now had three months of complete depression. What happened to the other stages?At least my neice an...
Posted by Code_5153 on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:04:00 PST

Tia Shan

I just took a peek at Panda Cam and Tai Shan is sleeping in what looks to be an impossibly uncomfortable position: on a rock ledge, with his head on a rock pillow, with his head face down in what look...
Posted by Code_5153 on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:32:00 PST

When It Rains, The Levees Break

I got word today one of my cousins committed suicide. I would never have imagined it. I knew he wasn't himself at Renee's funeral and I wanted to have a few quiet words with him but the opportunity ...
Posted by Code_5153 on Wed, 17 May 2006 03:40:00 PST

the difference between fiction and reality

is that fiction has to make sense.
Posted by Code_5153 on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:01:00 PST

Tomorrow

Tomorrow would have been Renee's 45th birthday.  Imagine that. And the reality of the situation is starting to settle in. Dying is easy; it's the living that's hard.  I'm not sure exactly wh...
Posted by Code_5153 on Thu, 04 May 2006 04:54:00 PST

Max and the Toast

Max, the 2nd of my bottle-raised babies; a huge sweet huggable monster of a cat. If I'd known what type of personality was going to evolve from that tiny, meweling piece of fluff, I'd named him Barry...
Posted by Code_5153 on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:23:00 PST

Dear God,

Please don't ever make me go through another week like I've just lived through.Neitzche said, "that which does not kill us makes us stronger." I'm not sure I've lived through it or not. My "role" in...
Posted by Code_5153 on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:40:00 PST

I need to be asleep

I'm going to have a dreadfully long day and I'm completely exhausted.  But I'm afraid to stop moving - afraid to close my eyes, afraid that when I try to sleep the thoughts that have been held at...
Posted by Code_5153 on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:01:00 PST

Well

Renee didn't make it through the night. Got the phone call a little before 9am. Ran errands today, made flight reservations; I'll leave tomorrow morning on what will doubtless be the toughest trip ...
Posted by Code_5153 on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:29:00 PST