JamesSavik

The answer is being stuck between a bud and a bro. There's something you might not know about Southern culture. In some ways we are almost Arabic. Once we make friends, there's very little that can change that. We're loyal to an absolute fault even when it hurts and goes way past making any sense. Why sure Butch, I'll follow you over that cliff. There is one place that I absolutely hate to be: in between people I care about in a controversy. I literally don't know how to handle it. Stay out of it and hope it gets better? Take sides? GAH! I know how electrons interact in semi-conductors but, when it comes to how people bounce off of each other, that's an equation I haven't derived yet. Being around the rooms of a 12 step program tells me to let it go and accept it. I'd rather grab them by the ears and bonk their hard heads together but that wouldn't work. I have to admit that you've both got a point. Why not meet in the middle? Whatever. I'm still there. Now. WTF is this about a cliff!?

With a name like James, he sort of had to be awesome.

Personal best on the rowing machine today: 300 pounds (136kg). That's my weight + about 1/3rd. That's not a weight that I'll be working out with routinely but- I'm working up to it. My Pecs and Lats are getting respectable.

I enjoy facebook. I don't know any of the people on it and, I avoid getting involved in my own life so it works out just fine.

A Local Youth “I have to have a talk with your mother.” Nine words. Nine despicable words that I wished that I had never heard. "But why? I'll just leave scouting." I didn't know that the scoutmaster was a Mormon, and he really had a stick up his ass about homosexuality. Hell, I didn't even know what homosexuality was until he told us. "Legally, I have to tell her. You and David are underage. You've been having homosexual sex." I said, "But Jesus

The House I waited years for the house to sell. Even then, I had to act through an intermediary. If David's parent's had known that I wanted their old place, they would have burned it down rather than see me get it. They were like that, and hated my guts. They blamed me for everything about David: mostly for turning him gay. Because he got wanderlust and caught HIV, and of course, they blamed me when he died. Hell, they didn't even allow me to attend the funeral after I had taken care

The Inquisitor Anybody who wants this job shouldn't have it. They would just be thugs. The people who should have it burn out or flip out. Philip Baker was just trying to hang on to his retirement and self-respect. Once being a special agent for the Bureau was a respectable job. That was the job he had signed on for twenty-seven years ago. It seemed like a lifetime ago. That was before the wars. Before the genetically engineered plagues were released. Before the Night of the 13th Proph

The Vermilion Cannery The storm started out modestly near the Cape Verde islands off the coast of East Africa. The prevailing winds took it across the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic where it grew to become a category 3 hurricane, but it was too late in the season. When Hurricane Mona entered the Gulf, instead of strengthening like they often do in August and September, it meandered through the cooler waters of October and November losing strength. It brushed Haiti and Cuba

The War Inside Stardate 43887.3 Dr. Walter Ingalls, Starfleet Medical Personal log. At the request of the Angosian government, Star Fleet has dispatched a team of doctors and other specialist to help rehabilitate veteran's of the Tarsian War. When I first got this assignment, I thought that we would make quick and easy progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I first thought were symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a much more complicated condi

[sharedmedia=gallery:images:7603] Abscess Blues There's trouble on my gum line, I can feel it in my bones I had a premonition that I would have to take out a loan I knew the tooth had a cavity, but I didn't think It'd pop Holy cow it's throbbing and I think I'm gonna drop Everything exploded, and the blood began to spill The dentist just smiled and fired up his drill Pay a little money now, we'll set up an easy payment plan You be cool for thirty minutes, and It'll cost about a grand Yeah

Rats Racing Fat cats, mall rats, old bats in expensive hats, Kids in cars, jocks in bars, wanna be movie stars, Dead heads, red heads, hot loving newly weds, Old men, young skin, trying out a brand new sin, Cops in cars, sushi bars, hippies with old guitars, Chinese, Japanese, anime sluts on their knees, Avenue, Revenue, a river place with a view, Young punks, old drunks, opportunistic political skunks, Stylish hills, favorite pills, summer time standing still, Alley cats, spoiled

1996 I have seen the fire Destroying everything in it path In its blazing wrath I have seen the fire Bringing terror as its might As it consumes the night I have seen the fire Slaying friends and lovers Strangers and brothers I have seen the fire. Out of control consumning souls Hell on earth a mass funeral pyre I have been burned by the fire With scars that don't show The loss it still burns and stings Friends and lovers I can not replace I am haunted by their familiar

Insomnia Insomnia haunts me and taunts me, Mind racing and chasing details of the day. Plans of tomorrow, no time to borrow, Always behind as time grinds, Past and future together in the breathless present. I am so lost, I don't know the cost, Of the things that I've been or the things that I've seen, At night, they are burning bright, Restless azure darkness impaled, By the fires that rend the eternal night. There is no peace when the wars never cease, even thou

[sharedmedia=gallery:images:11021] My work and class schedule for the spring is brutal. The classes and labs with tons of statistics to grind out are enough to make even an old school nerd like me sweat. Add in work on top and it's a shit sundae. I'm sitting on several contracts now. Most of them are for ongoing work. I'm focused on point of sale systems- it's easy and I've got a ton of experience with it. Whenever one of my customers has one of their point of sale terminals drop dead or they w

Nothing disturbs me more than BDS&M type stuff. I'm not dissing it. I just DON'T want to watch it. *shudders, hides under the covers*

Thanks Dave.

Home What is this place? I haven't lived here in decades, but it is exactly the same. The dogwood and the irises covering its roots were both in bloom. So was the Mountain Laurel and Azaleas. The roses were strong and healthy on their trellises burdened by big, heavy fragrant deep red flowers. Hummingbirds were fluttering back and forth between the flowers. I looked at it in pride. I had spent years putting it all together. I felt a deep feeling of contentment at finally se

Yeah- a psycho dictator with a tiny dick and nukes is a lot scarier than my Rainbow Dixie flag.

Outbreak For eons the bat and the virus lived in harmony deep in the jungles of Brazil. For eons the world of the virus lived harmlessly without infringing on the world of mankind. There had been a few times when a fisherman would stray into a cave to escape storm clouds and get bitten. The way the damned stuff worked, the victim was suddenly too sick to make it out of the jungle. Months later they would be found with their skull on a makeshift pillow and their bony fingers clu

Thanks! It's fun to do these when I've got time. I only put my "Best of" in this collection.

Uhh... the red Polo boxer-briefs really are my shorts

it was fun putting them together like this.

UN Deep Space Exploration Vessel Horizon Alpha Centauri Star System 20 June 2120 “Somehow, I just never expected this.” "Oh suck it up MacKinnon. We've been asleep for thirty years. You're just going to have to embrace the suck for a while." MacKinnon raised her head from the sleeper chamber and said, "Garrison. You're still alive. Damn." There were several guffaws and chuckles from around the sleeper compartment. Morrison, the mission science officer sa