New Blog

April 29, 2003 | Laughing Knees | Comments Off 

Well, now that I’ve thor­oughly been se­duced by blog­ging I’ve taken it upon my­self to get se­ri­ous and learn HTML. It’s some­what ironic since I’ve been star­ing at the re­sults of cod­ing for so long and never made an ef­fort to learn it be­fore. I’m not sure why putting to­gether a blog and putting to­gether a home­page (which I went so far as to de­sign and draw up the graph­ics for and set up in DreamWeaver, but never got around to up­load­ing onto a host) are so dif­fer­ent, why blog­ging seems so much closer to what I want to do (per­haps be­cause I’m mainly in­ter­ested in writ­ing?). Any­way, I went ahead and or­dered my­self a do­main name and joined a web host. Once I’ve got my site put to­gether I’ll switch over, and leave the for­ward­ing url here. I’ll be here for now, though.

Arms Dump

April 27, 2003 | Laughing Knees | Comments Off 

What is go­ing on with the United States? It seems as if noth­ing but one hap­less “mis­take” af­ter an­other keeps oc­cur­ring in Iraq, and the Iraqis con­tinue to take the vi­o­lent brunt of the ir­re­spon­si­bil­ity. The lat­est stu­pid­ity, the arms dump ex­plod­ing ( Arms dump ), re­ally could have been avoided if the Amer­i­cans had taken mea­sures to en­sure that the dump was cleared. If they can pro­tect the Oil Min­istry, why can they not pro­tect the peo­ple from a non-​​moving, non-​​living thing as an arms dump?

Complications

April 26, 2003 | Laughing Knees | Comments Off 

Wow, I’m weary to­day. It’s more than the late nights as I try to learn CG soft­ware and work on my two books. I went to the doc­tor yes­ter­day to have my monthly di­a­betes checkup. I’ve been work­ing pretty hard at tak­ing care of my­self lately, but to hear from the doc­tor that things haven’t been im­prov­ing just brought me down. Af­ter I fin­ished work I made my way home and then sat out­side in the nearby park, look­ing at the stars and singing qui­etly to my­self. At times the bul­warks crack a lit­tle and doubt creeps in. It’s scary watch­ing my body de­te­ri­o­rate while I so love the world that pro­duced it and gave me the means to ap­pre­ci­ate the won­der of living.

Cry for Iraq

April 23, 2003 | Laughing Knees | Comments Off 

I have taken to switch­ing chan­nels or click­ing off the web­site every time I come across any news of Iraq fo­cus­ing on America’s plans or in­volve­ment. I no longer trust the Amer­i­cans to tell the truth or to look at the sit­u­a­tion from Iraqi eyes. It is a ter­ri­bly sad story, this crime, es­pe­cially leav­ing the Iraqis des­ti­tute and un­pro­tected. I con­demn the U.S. with all my soul.

This ar­ti­cle left me sit­ting in long si­lence af­ter I read it: ( Kathy Kelly )

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