tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43486579330845759512023-10-06T08:17:12.249-05:00Pagan BlacksmithThere is nothing I have found more stress relieving than heating a piece of steel to a bright yellow and hammering on it, until it conforms with the desired shape in one's mind. If you don't believe me, give it a try, sometime.Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-86419102417851039442012-09-16T22:03:00.001-05:002012-09-16T22:03:50.780-05:00Club Astarte
"Welcome, Friends. Welcome, Brothers. Welcome, Sisters." almost shouting, George was greeting the newest visitors in to The Church. George is a great greater, a large man, though vertically challenged, he has a presence of warmth and welcoming that works very well as a greeter slash usher.
"George, Please start encouraging patrons to visit the private sessionals." comes an anonymous voice Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-90120787161397462552010-04-25T19:42:00.000-05:002010-04-25T19:42:16.805-05:00Dreams are for childrenAnother realization: Dreams are for children.
My dreams of happiness and success are empty and hollow. My wishes and desires for the heart of another person, now lost to me are but ash in the wind. Gone much like the magician's flash paper.
As I have been reflecting on the changes I need to make in me, and through me to the world about me, I've come to the edge of myself, and the empty Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-49932687446085259922010-04-04T20:54:00.000-05:002010-04-04T20:54:01.155-05:00To be or not to be“To be or not to be.” The eternal question posed by Shakespeare so many years ago is rather poignant, tonight, for me, personally.
The last few months have been a bit difficult for me. I've left a good job, left loved ones and moved halfway across the country to tend to family. No discussion, no thought to much of anyone but my own selfish desires. I don't believe I was wrong in my Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-56853394803241293372010-02-22T17:35:00.001-06:002010-02-22T17:44:15.491-06:00Mia Culpa timeThere is nothing quite as painful as having messed up, and hurt someone else in the process.
This past weekend I realized how much I cared for someone. This loving and tender person has never done me wrong, but I hurt her, repeatedly, emotionally for over two years. It was never my intent to inflict such pain on her. And because of this, she no longer trusts me. Which I can fully Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-17946055386423485042010-02-18T02:51:00.000-06:002010-02-18T02:51:46.255-06:00My HeroesI recently stumbled across a question on onioning.com that I felt compelled to answer. The question was: your parents are strong [or] cool people consider!!?
I thought I would share my answer here, as well. There is much more to say on the subject, but I think little more need be said than this:
I believe my father to be a strong person, because of who I am. He helped mold me into the personPagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-42010595382730129542010-02-06T11:19:00.001-06:002010-02-06T11:22:13.982-06:00The Angel of Death has Come for a FriendLast week, my mother-in-law passed. We had a memorial for her on Tuesday.Paula was a wonderful woman, full of praises. Always with a quick, meaningful smile and a word of support. As a school teacher, she touched and supported the little town she lived in at a level politicians could only dream of. Former students (and their parents) were always speaking with her, when she was out. I swear Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-56974266643972966002010-01-25T16:56:00.002-06:002010-01-25T17:03:15.322-06:00Slump FightingWOOHOO!Thank goodness for Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, John Jameson and our many other friends of sour mash origins!NO, I'm not intoxicated, nor am I even tipsy. I've had a single drink, this afternoon, of normal size and proportions for an American Legion post's bar. The good of this is not from the fact that I had a drink, nor that I had a drink with a bunch of old drunk farts. Instead it is in Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-81409782667093034002010-01-24T07:21:00.000-06:002010-01-24T07:22:18.440-06:00Depression sucksI’m serious, it really does. And I recognize that fact. Everyday I sense the sliding and the slipping into a deeper state of apathy. I’m in the house, alone, no job, diminishing fiscal statements and I’m having a hard giving a damn about it all. This is what it comes down to: I need to get off my ass and DO something. But I have no energy or desire to do anything. And this just makes the Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-25949670899451088832010-01-18T13:06:00.003-06:002010-01-18T13:11:05.399-06:00Mis-daventures at lunchSo, here I am, in Franklin, Indiana. A small town, where as a young person I was taught the variances of 'right and wrong' behavior.Today, I witnessed, and humbly admit to participating in, poor behavior. The type of behavior that would have had my backside spanked to a light cherry red color and other forms of punishment.Here is the story of today's events:About 11:30 AM I decided I would stepPagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-56687720574708858532010-01-10T19:22:00.002-06:002010-01-10T19:29:51.856-06:00Long time goneWell, I've done it, again. I left this blog un-updated for several months.Last August I took a vacation. On this vacation I stopped by to see my family, on my ride to the Smokey Mountains. This is when I learned how ill members of my family are.So, in October, I moved from OKC to a suburb of Indianapolis to help. I left my good job at Dell, sold off or gave away a lot of what I owned, and put Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-38323327521592435942009-09-30T21:35:00.000-05:002009-09-30T21:36:08.245-05:00"When will it END?" cried a mother, for a TV news crew."When will it END?" cried a mother, for a TV news crew. "When will the government take the guns off the streets?"What a GREAT soundbite and video clip that was for the local TV news station. A impoverished woman of color, with a quietly sobbing child on her hip gave the camera her all. Really superb opportunity to get that personal community touch. But how about some truth?Item 1. That Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-91079915259056363552009-09-10T05:51:00.000-05:002009-09-10T05:52:26.923-05:00Obama Called a LiarDuring the President's presentation, tonight, he was called a liar by South Carolina's Joe Wilson. (http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-Populist-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Joe-Wilsons-apology-is-meaningless) Mr. Wilson's outburst came while President Obama was stating that the Health Care Reform would not insure illegal aliens.Mr. Wilson's political career is probably over. And this is a shame. He has Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-31580991924057327902009-09-10T03:17:00.003-05:002009-09-10T03:36:28.130-05:00There are times I DO enjoy a good fight!3 months ago (June 12th, 2009), there was an explosion in the laundry facility of my apartment complex. This explosion, caused by a faulty, coin operated, gas drier, damaged the building and the centralized water heaters That provided water to entire complex for all tenants. Electric water heaters have been installed and are not functioning, correctly (they were not designed for this type of Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-42387210553454810562009-09-09T02:37:00.001-05:002009-09-09T02:38:07.467-05:00Family comes first, but keeping a job makes it A LOT easier to do!While on vacation, I visited family. Primarily my Dad. His best friend, came over that evening and we had a great visit. Discussing politics, society and computers. I really love that type of visit. The next day, Dad and I went to his parent's house. While he was doing other things I sat chatting with my grand parents. Both are in their 80's and having issues. My living so far away, I Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-42818041840060276912009-09-02T01:25:00.001-05:002009-09-02T01:28:06.135-05:00Selling myselfFor almost two decades I have worked in the IT industry. I have enjoyed a wide variety of jobs where I started building machines for the a neighborhood white box vendor to becoming the IT resource for multiple dot-com start-ups in Silicon Valley. And now I answer phones, providing tech support for Enterprise customers. I spend my 9 hour shifts fixing what other people own. Every day I am Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-76604445795574013142009-08-25T23:05:00.000-05:002009-08-25T23:06:49.433-05:00A funny thing happened on the way here, today …Well, not so much a 'funny' but an interesting.I am on vacation. For my vacation, I am riding my motorcycle to a long list of places. On day 4 of this wonderful vacation, I was in the Lake Cumberland area of Kentucky.I spent some time seeing the various sites and 'reconnecting' with an area that has a heavy ancestral relationship to me. It is an odd thing to describe. The last time I was in Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-22400115081738780072009-08-21T23:32:00.001-05:002009-08-21T23:34:48.008-05:00Kettle meet PotFrom Slashdot comes this little technology nugget:"From the BBC, 'Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-30098342291113097022009-08-21T22:11:00.001-05:002009-08-21T22:14:21.809-05:00It is time ...It is time for me to take some time for ME. Yes, it is vacation time! WOOHOO! I work 3rd shift. It is 10PM, at the moment. My vacation starts at 0600. 8 hours. 640 minutes. 38400 seconds. And already the phones in the support center are ringing non-stop.ANYWAY, back to my vacation plans. (THIS is the REAL reason to have a blog, right? To brag about something? At least that is what Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-81062249708855988832009-08-18T02:40:00.002-05:002009-08-18T02:42:49.343-05:00Guns near the PresidentOk, here is my WTF article for the week. And I’ve got a few things to spit out about it.“Dozen Armed With Guns Protest Obama SpeechAbout a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech.”http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/18/Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-77927726159279537402009-08-13T04:36:00.001-05:002009-08-13T04:50:51.481-05:00Last month I was called a bigot. I was called a racist. I was told that I had no compassion for my fellow man. All of this stemming from an 'interview' with a friend of a friend who was doing a paper on 'Social Attitudes'.The discussion went kind of like this:Me: So, what do you want to know? What are we going to discuss?Her: I've got a list of topics I want your opinion Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-92016621430812694162009-06-27T03:12:00.001-05:002009-06-27T03:14:00.846-05:00Reasons for the 2nd AmendmentIran, 2009; Current day example of why the 2nd Amendment applies to the individual, rather than the state.Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-75751119595919259532009-05-29T02:47:00.003-05:002009-05-29T02:53:42.256-05:00Helping good peopleSend $25.00 to melody.byrne AT gmail.com via paypal for what is going to be one of the very best cook books ever printed ($10.00 for an e-copy).These people, Chris and Melody of http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/ have been going through hell the last few years with an extremely expensive international custody battle. This couple has done everything to protect their kids. I've read their blog for Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-77731238590051381832009-05-23T04:12:00.003-05:002009-05-23T04:14:14.320-05:00bad e-mail adviseThis e-mail was forwarded to me, lately. I decided to respond in a helpful way, rather than just smacking someone around as my mood suggested.**************************How to protect your e-mai l address bookA computer repairman says this is like having gold.This is a good thing.I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity.As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-14875310238692841152009-04-24T03:12:00.002-05:002009-04-24T03:14:15.007-05:00Memories attack with the mildest of stimuliSitting at work, things were slow, so I pulled out the MP3 player to jam to while surfing for Linux stuff.I just told the the MP3 player to start randomly playing any of the music on there. The first few songs were not 'right' for my mood. Then came up "Girl" by the Beatles. I chose to listen to that album, Rubber Soul. For 30 or so minutes I was transplanted in time a space, within my mind Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348657933084575951.post-63518906673169615002009-04-23T04:49:00.003-05:002009-04-23T05:04:06.668-05:00Time to GripeOk, I've been quiet quite a bit, lately. Mostly because I've been working on my L4SMB.net website. Thanks for dropping by, if you have not, get on over there.Anyway.Obama the fierce is being clapped on the back (by his own people) as a firm, decisive leader with a spine. BULLSHIT!Yes, I just used an offensive word. Get over it. If you don't like it, crawl under a rock and hide for a decade Pagan Blacksmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642145938688371088noreply@blogger.com1