Wake-Up Call
Saturday was to have been a good day.  That morning we met with a financial adviser to discuss our current situation and discuss options for retirement and insurance plans.  Then that evening, we were to meet up with several friends for a night of karaoke, an outing which seems to be creeping towards an annual event.  After our meeting with our adviser, we went to the super market to purchase some items for that night's festivities, including food, paper and plastic goods, a bunch of beer, a bottle of rum, and some Pepsi for mixing.So that night we got our things together, headed out to Karaoke Hut and started to get our room set-up.  Soon, friends started tr

Sif and Sammy: After Party
Here's the next sequence of this story in progress, taking place immediately after the events depicted in this earlier post.  This is all still in its rough stages and I anticipate many edits once I get through the whole story. Enjoy.----------              "She's a bitch."         "Who?"         "Your new friend.  Dee."  Sif had

Bloodletting
Today, for the first time in 10 years, I gave blood.  I don't know why it's been so long since my last donation.  In fact, I didn't quite realize that it had been 10 years until they pulled up my file and had an ancient address listed for me, with my last donation date showing as sometime in July of 1999.Wow.I used to give regularly, if not religiously, starting in high school, when we had a blood drive in our gym.  Since then, I gave whenever I had the opportunity, which was pretty often since my college and every work place since then had regular blood drives.  That continued through my migration to Hawaii, until one of my employers stopped hold

Sif and Sammy: A story in progress
Despite a weird bug that's hit me and been playing havoc with my sleep patterns, as well as the demands of my day job (which fortunately seem to be winding down), I've been trying to get back into a regular writing routine by waking up a bit earlier during the week to crank some stuff out while my newly awake mind is still a relative blank slate.  Monday was to have been my first day of this new routine, and I started out by reacquainting myself with a piece that I wanted to tackle, a short story featuring two characters, Sif and Sam, that I've grown quite fond of.  Not to brag, but I was quite pleased with what I had already written, which of course further inspired me to get thi

YouTube Tuesday
Despite the title of this post, I don't think YouTube Tuesday's will be a regular themed day here, but I did come across (or was actually forwarded) two videos today that I thought were pretty cool and wanted to share:The first one, is corporate sponsored, but it's a neat social experiment that was done in Sweden:Now if we can only find a way to make flossing, scrubbing the bathroom and doing taxes fun, we'd be all set.Then there's this one.  If this doesn't give you chills or make you tear up even a little, then you, my friend, have no soul:Hope you enjoyed!-r-