http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/Sometimes a journal... a few cars on a train of thought... poetry as it occurs to me... rants and diatribes... If you want to know me, read my blogs: sooner or later, it all hangs out.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/636102A client once used this metaphor to describe the place he was stuck: it's as if I am standing at the door to where I need to go... It's locked, but it's right in front of me, and the key is right at my feet. And I am standing in sewage up to my neck! Lately I have been revisiting this ever-so-apt...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/635174Google you probably know has its little ways of determining which of the billions of ads it runs to send your way. Then based on its gleanings of your apparent interests, sends a selection of ads and ad links. Full Size Women Dresses » Women Girdles Nylon » Elf 'S » Bras Made for Men » This is...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/635148DO NOT VISIT MY UNIVERSE BLOG TODAY No kidding--some sort of malware is triggering a warning and shutting down my internet connection when I go to write or read the latest post on that blog. I have emailed admins here and also copied 10 pages of prior posts, in case the matter calls for shutting...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/633438I've mentioned before that I play one of those massive multiplayer games... Lord of the Rings Online... Here will give you a further idea about it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbA6nMqV1g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sak6lycABKo&feature=relatedhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/631552is that poultry has not forgotten when they were dinosaurs. In fact, they don't acknowledge that they are not today, strictly speaking, dinosaurs. I have not kept chickens, but I have kept turkeys, and have encountered geese and swans and can nod vigorously in agreement with the dino-theory....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/628551It's such a short, snapped out accusing word: lie! Nothing sets match to social or political tinder more dramatically than "You lie!" as we have seen in recent days. What if the guy had blustered out, "You utter falsehood!" What kind of reaction would that have provoked? Or, " What you say is...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/626690Between child and parent truth is extra-ordinarily important. Every lie is a wall that comes between them and becomes harder and harder to get around or take down. Every kid discovers that life is full of greys: rules and exceptions. Growing up takes us from the simple world of strict...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/625752I just heard a promo for an upcoming NPR program about what makes kids lie, and how punishment 'makes kids lie better and more often.' It's part of a program called What Parents Get Wrong. In my growing-up family, lying was the only spanking offense. I got spanked a few times, and once when I had...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/625393Yesterday was that sort of diffuse but bright sunlight that makes it hard to keep the eyes open. That, and when we took Davy for a jaunt by the lake downtown, we found the Hemp Fest going on. At first I thought it was maybe Bon-a-dori, but pretty fast it was clearly Stone-a-dori. All I can say...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel7600/625022I saw a clunky old car, a little Volvo station wagon, cruising down the highway yesterday. On the back window, the words JUST MARRIED! It got me thinking, why do people get married nowadays? Living together doesn't have the stigma it used to, people do it--as they have done for ages, regardless...