Molten Boron

Caving to popular demand, I post a picture. The squeamish may not want to click on it.

I got a haircut. For the first time in twenty years, it’s immune to tangling. My ears are cold. No one I’ve met since moving to Tennessee has ever seen me with short hair. (The girl that cut it wasn’t even born the last time I had it much over my shoulders.) This includes my [...]

I feel like everyone grew up while I wasn’t paying attention. Slept through Saturday; one hour up, three hours down. Dreams were a lot closer to reality. After waking, sometimes hard to discern difference. Exercised a little bit today. Must restore my tenuous perch on that wagon. Been obsessing again, lately. I don’t think a [...]

Pattern recognition is a large part of what thinking is about. This parallels an article I read recently, but I can’t remember where. A blog? An editorial? A fictional short story? The gist of the article (I think?) was that superstition grows when we begin to detect meaning in patterns that aren’t actually meaningful. Sometimes [...]

This morning was full of the usual not-knowing-what-the-hell-I’m-doing worries. We need to do $x, and it’s pretty big. I don’t have complete details on it, but I know it’s urgent. We’re not supposed to do things without business procedure $y, but the person responsible for that is ineffectual and out of town. Deadline for $x [...]

I’ve been sleeping all weekend. Meant to go out to Cookeville to visit family Saturday, but “just lay down for a minute” has been hard to resist. One hour up, two back in bed. Also, I’ve been treating Raisin Bran Crunch as a snack food. I should get back on my diet wagon. I only [...]

Lately, Shada’s been more insistent than usual about wanting to go OUT. OUT! NOW! I can normally handle it okay, but first thing in the morning? No, no sir. So today I caved and let her out. Opened the sliding glass door a few inches and told her to knock herself out. Puttered around for [...]

One way of looking at things is that I run largely on automatic. Minor, low-energy mechanisms respond to common stimulus. Higher-order operations are called when bounds of practiced behaviors are exceeded, forming new, more complex, behaviors. I need to break some of these and re-train. The direction and severity of my responses are often far [...]

This might get to be TMI or simply too emo to stand reading. After getting some if it out, it looks more like a guest list to a pity-party than anything really useful. I’d advise you to skip it if you can’t tolerate rampant dumbassery. It’s just ideas I want to put order to. A [...]

It was good, it was bad, it was great, it was awful. My head’s still in a stir trying to evaluate everything. As Dragon*Cons go, as objectively as I can determine, this one was rock solid. I didn’t see any of the usual “what the hell were they thinking” mishaps. If I’m not comfortable with [...]