4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 ¶ And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Ome'ga, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
War
He, therefore, who desires peace should prepare for war.
-Flavius Vegetius Renatus from De Rei Militari
-Flavius Vegetius Renatus from De Rei Militari
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Summer Time, Magic Season
Yes indeed, the best months of a teacher's year and I am smack-dab in the middle. It's hot, it's rainy, it's good writing weather. Thunder is rolling outside right now, though as I look out the sliding door I can see blue sky.
William is playing on his "jungle mat" complete with monkeys and toucans. Been working on the new manuscript, doing laundry, dishes, lawn stuff, hanging out with William and building some new decks. It's time for Summer Magic. That's right, all the pageantry, the glory, the thrill of victory and the agony of the combo deck gone wrong. Witness the pack-produced power of the Mortivore, the maddening effect of the third Blatant Thievery of the game and the raw power of Mana Geyser + Fireball.
SEE YOU IN JULY FOR THE CARNAGE!
William is playing on his "jungle mat" complete with monkeys and toucans. Been working on the new manuscript, doing laundry, dishes, lawn stuff, hanging out with William and building some new decks. It's time for Summer Magic. That's right, all the pageantry, the glory, the thrill of victory and the agony of the combo deck gone wrong. Witness the pack-produced power of the Mortivore, the maddening effect of the third Blatant Thievery of the game and the raw power of Mana Geyser + Fireball.
SEE YOU IN JULY FOR THE CARNAGE!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Blogging
I've got a new blog up, Titan.
http://offworldstory.blogspot.com
I'll post material from my new manuscript for your comments.
Stop by and take a read when you get a chance.
http://offworldstory.blogspot.com
I'll post material from my new manuscript for your comments.
Stop by and take a read when you get a chance.
Friday, June 13, 2008
New Car Smell
I got the car washed a few days ago and when they asked what scent I wanted in the car I hesitated. Vanilla I like but it can be overpowering, as can Cherry. I settled on New Car. Everyone likes that new car smell right?
Well, my wife went to get groceries yesterday and I was bringing them in. I couldn't help but notice the fascinting scent wafting from the Altima's cabin. New Car Smell? Try, Old Folks Home. What an aromatic bouquet of Ben-Gay, Depends and Polident. It must have taken a few days to really "kick in" because I honestly had no idea that anything remotely that bad smelling was available to the average consumer. I could see its military applications, but a smell like that is only so useful to us civilians. Needless to say my wife wants me to remove the offending odor pads and replace them with something more fragrant. Like Hot Dumpster.
Well, my wife went to get groceries yesterday and I was bringing them in. I couldn't help but notice the fascinting scent wafting from the Altima's cabin. New Car Smell? Try, Old Folks Home. What an aromatic bouquet of Ben-Gay, Depends and Polident. It must have taken a few days to really "kick in" because I honestly had no idea that anything remotely that bad smelling was available to the average consumer. I could see its military applications, but a smell like that is only so useful to us civilians. Needless to say my wife wants me to remove the offending odor pads and replace them with something more fragrant. Like Hot Dumpster.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
GO THERE
Check out Arianna's blog and her "Lifehouse Everything" post and watch the video. I thought it was going to be corny and ended up with tears in my eyes.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
What would you do if you woke up tomorrow deathly ill only to realize that everyone you know has vanished and the city you live in is in ruins?
That's the situation in which Omeym finds himself in "The Last Vial" the new manuscript from the same guy who guilted you into reading CHOSEN.
Will Omeym survive long enough to save himself, find his people and topple an empire? Only time will tell how Omeym decides to use "The Last Vial".
*Not available in stores.
*Or anywhere else.
That's the situation in which Omeym finds himself in "The Last Vial" the new manuscript from the same guy who guilted you into reading CHOSEN.
Will Omeym survive long enough to save himself, find his people and topple an empire? Only time will tell how Omeym decides to use "The Last Vial".
*Not available in stores.
*Or anywhere else.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
WEDNESDAY
William is excited because Wednesday is trash day!
Yep, put the trash out this morning at about 8. I have alot of trash because we are redoing all the mulch and some of the plants in our flower garden. All the old mulch and weeds are in huge, black, plastic bags. They're heavy. So I dragged them all out to the road so the trash guys could take them. Well, it's 2pm now and they're still out there in a sky-scraping ziggurat of trash. I'm not sure if I'm going to move them or not. Dragging them back up the driveway will solve nothing. Whether the trash guys take them or not they're going to have to be moved and keeping them near the curb makes it easier to move them. I bet my wife makes me move them away from the road though. Who wants to bet? Oh, nobody is taking that one?
William and I went for little run this morning which was nice. We have to get out early before it gets to hot.
Forecast for today: Hi of 92 with 85% humidity and a 50% chance of rain this afternoon. Ah, summer in Florida.
Well, being a house husband I have alot of things I need to get done such as, finish the laundry (FOLDING!!!) take care of Baby William and try to get some writing and reading done.
-laters skaters
Monday, June 9, 2008
DUNE
I just finshed DUNE MESSIAH. I never read the original DUNE but I have seen the movie...a few times. I kind of felt like I was reading Jack London on crack because the text is saturated with humanism. I always find books with a humanistic slant to them morbid to read. Where's the hope? Mind you, I really like Jack London because there is a truth to his writing. Fact: wolf-dogs are better at surviving in the Yukon than men. But we come to that conclusion from vastly different view points. Jack says "Look at evolution at work. Buck knows better then to go out in a blizzard because thousands of years of ancestral instinct tell him to stay inside". I say, "God made animals to survive and thrive in the woods and Buck here is doing a pretty good job of that." While I don't discount instinct, I believe Buck's instinctual make-up comes from God rather than millions of years of genetic randomness.
The main character (Paul Muad'dib Supreme Ruler of the Universe) is prescient, he can see the future. But not only that, he can see every imaginable variation of the future. To put it simply he can see the "Butterfly Effect" and can choose his path accordingly. Unfortunately for Paul all his options are pretty crummy and he has to settle with the lesser of the evils between the end of humanity and intense physical, mental and emotional pain for himself and his loved ones. He, being the guy that he is, saves humantiy and loses everything else.
The Fremen and the Aiel have some interestingly similar qualities:
Both live in an incredibly harsh, desert, environment.
Both revere water and kill people who waste it.
Both have a complex tribal social structure.
Both are the most fierce fighters in their perspective worlds.
Both follow a saviour figure who comes to them from a far-away land, posseses awesome powers and leads them in victorious battle over people who have alot of water.
Both are regarded as wild, dangerous and fierce by off-worlders/wetlanders.
Both are the personal guard and advisors of their respective saviours.
That's just a few I could think of off the top of my head. But when I was reading the book I was thinking "Aiel" whenever the Fremen were described as a people.
Morpheus should have read about the Butlerian Jihad during the Matrix Trilogy. The Duniverse had it's share of the same problems. Thinking machines overran Earth. Earth was devistated by the use of atomics against the machines and every human on the planet either died or became a slave of the Omnius of Earth. Well, thanks to settling on other planets across the universe,(insurance, Neo!) the humans fought back winning the war, destroying the machines, cyborgs and cymeks. In the end, even calculators were banned and, thanks to genetic tampering, humans who could think like computers were trained and called Mentats and no one ever used a keyboard again.
The End
Until next time, keep an eye on your toaster.
The main character (Paul Muad'dib Supreme Ruler of the Universe) is prescient, he can see the future. But not only that, he can see every imaginable variation of the future. To put it simply he can see the "Butterfly Effect" and can choose his path accordingly. Unfortunately for Paul all his options are pretty crummy and he has to settle with the lesser of the evils between the end of humanity and intense physical, mental and emotional pain for himself and his loved ones. He, being the guy that he is, saves humantiy and loses everything else.
The Fremen and the Aiel have some interestingly similar qualities:
Both live in an incredibly harsh, desert, environment.
Both revere water and kill people who waste it.
Both have a complex tribal social structure.
Both are the most fierce fighters in their perspective worlds.
Both follow a saviour figure who comes to them from a far-away land, posseses awesome powers and leads them in victorious battle over people who have alot of water.
Both are regarded as wild, dangerous and fierce by off-worlders/wetlanders.
Both are the personal guard and advisors of their respective saviours.
That's just a few I could think of off the top of my head. But when I was reading the book I was thinking "Aiel" whenever the Fremen were described as a people.
Morpheus should have read about the Butlerian Jihad during the Matrix Trilogy. The Duniverse had it's share of the same problems. Thinking machines overran Earth. Earth was devistated by the use of atomics against the machines and every human on the planet either died or became a slave of the Omnius of Earth. Well, thanks to settling on other planets across the universe,(insurance, Neo!) the humans fought back winning the war, destroying the machines, cyborgs and cymeks. In the end, even calculators were banned and, thanks to genetic tampering, humans who could think like computers were trained and called Mentats and no one ever used a keyboard again.
The End
Until next time, keep an eye on your toaster.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Excerpt from "The Last Vial" (New WIP)
New manuscript in progress. Enjoy.
And it came to pass that in the three hundredth year of the reign of the goddess Thanak that a servant of Olo, Who Is, arose out of the West. From an ancient house he came a champion of old. Son of the Eagle, yea even the White Eagle, he walked among us a prince of the children of the sun. And he slew the Dreneshites and the Agorians and the children of Lod with the edge of the sword and he cut them in pieces before the eyes of Olo. Then the people wondered at his coming and trembled at his might. And they named him Ash-Azaz, the Endbringer, the Titan.
-The Book of Olo
And it came to pass that in the three hundredth year of the reign of the goddess Thanak that a servant of Olo, Who Is, arose out of the West. From an ancient house he came a champion of old. Son of the Eagle, yea even the White Eagle, he walked among us a prince of the children of the sun. And he slew the Dreneshites and the Agorians and the children of Lod with the edge of the sword and he cut them in pieces before the eyes of Olo. Then the people wondered at his coming and trembled at his might. And they named him Ash-Azaz, the Endbringer, the Titan.
-The Book of Olo
Monday, June 2, 2008
Nemmen: A Fantastic Tale
Wow, haha. Turned out to be not so fantastic after all.
I guess I'll wait a while before trying to write something "funny" again.
I got some interesting reactions over at Absolute Write in the "Share Your Work" forum.
I guess I'll wait a while before trying to write something "funny" again.
I got some interesting reactions over at Absolute Write in the "Share Your Work" forum.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
So, ah, yeah...
This is the view from a beach near my house.
I should be reading right now. I have been assigned a book to read for a meeting I have at school tomorrow, but I'm blogging instead.
It appears I need to add some people to my Virtual Hangouts. Jen and Tara both have very interesting sites. So, I'll get right on that...right after I finish my reading.
The baby swing has mystical powers and no matter how hard Baby William tries to fight against its sleep inducing effects he fails and falls asleep. "Baby Swing, I choose you!"
Got this new manscript idea planned out a bit. At least I got the main idea for the piece. Now it's time to embark on another danger fraught journey into the dark recesses of my mind. This time I'm bringing a flash light and a juice box. I'v never tried to write something that was funny. My works were always (except for some poetry) pretty serious. Which is odd because I am not (serious).
Writing Chosen was a great experience. It was a real learning experience too. It gave me confidence that, given enough time, I can put down 63k words on my computer and it comes out semi-coherent. Mind you, I was back-filling plot holes for a while before I decided to put Chosen away for a while. I expect I'll get the manuscript out again and maybe even try to get it published (again) at some later date.
I'm either going to go read for a bit or work some on my new manuscript tentatively titled "Nemmen: A Fantastic Tale".
-Later
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