I spent Thanksgiving with a friend I used to work with and his family. My ex-roommate didn’t have anything planned sohe went with me and had a good time and, certainly enjoyed the good cooking. I baked another apple ppie but, double-sized because of the number of people there. I went back there for dinner [...]

The Kindness of a Stranger By JOHN WATERS Published: November 19, 2006 Tennessee Williams saved my life. As a 12-year-old boy in suburban Baltimore, I would look up his name in the card catalog at the library and it would read “see Librarian.” I wanted these “see Librarian” books — and I wanted them now [...]

This week has gone by pretty quickly… certainly quicker than I realized looking at this LJ. I know I’ve been busy but, I hadn’t posted anything in a solid week. I got a phone call to contract a web site (artist) I put a bid in for back in May, 2006. Another site I had [...]

Paying back rent money is fun, ya know. Blah. But, it has to be done especially when I have guilt about owing money so, I gave my former roommate money I owed him. We had a long talk about business and me then, went out to dinner where he made with some interesting revelations about [...]

Wetlands, Los Angeles, Calif. Originally uploaded by artlab. Believe me when I say I don’t know exactly when this image was made but, I do know it was between 1965 and 1968. There are most certainly houses and roads in this place now. I’m not really sure why I took this shot but, it is [...]

C-121 Originally uploaded by artlab. Everything in life points to competition and, it is highly intense these days. Talent and skills don’t get you where you want to go, you have to be aggressive, sometimes obnoxious, and often me-first in order to get life’s necessities. I’m working on getting non-profit 501c(3) status based on what [...]

The good is that I’m actually paying some bills and saving a bit although, there’s a bad side to that. The bad is that I’m sleeping on the floor and it’s starting to hurt my back. I need just a bit more padding under me. Gawd, prisoners have it bad sleeping on those things they [...]