Between bouts of severe facial pain and whinging about better dental plans and the rare moments when the wisdom tooth is actually handing over some gold, I’ve been working.
A lot.
I have the greatest job ever!

So I was going to go all “SURPRISE!” but when it’s already in the title…blah.
Anyway, here I am on a Saturday, all warm and toasty (I lie, I’m in Canada and it’s f’ing cold here right now) and I’m thinking… should I do some promotional stuff? Yeah. I think I should. If there are images – or image boxes for those that block images – they are linked offsite, so click those.
So here ya go. First up is my brother’s IndieGoGo campaign. He’s an aspiring artisan blacksmith, and he is …

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that the keys to patience are acceptance and faith, to accept things the way they are, and to look realistically on the world around you. He also said to have faith in yourself and in the direction you’ve chosen.
I admit in the last six months to having lost all of that. All of my patience and faith, all of my ability to accept things as they are and to be objective, realistic, in doing so. And I most definitely lost faith in myself and my …

For the past two months, nearly three actually, I’ve been having serious computer issues, which has resulted in Belfire and myself being out of commission. I can’t tell you how annoying it is to start a bunch of promos, begin final stages on files… only to have the computer die. I can’t tell you, because you really don’t come here for that kind of language (or do you?) and besides… most of you know of what I speak.
All of my high and lofty plans for catching up, getting ahead …

This has been a very long, very trying summer. I am glad to see the back-end of it, let me tell you! Even though there were some ups, there were a lot of terrible downs. And let-downs, a lot of let-downs; the silver lining there is that I know now who I can turn to when I need to stop being the strong one, the dead one. Bless ‘em!
Inevitably, things run their course, right? And here at casa de crazy, the good is finally starting to out-run the bad.