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I inten­tion­ally stay away from reli­gious dis­cus­sion because I know my lim­i­ta­tions. I know that I’m pretty pig-headed when it comes to my beliefs. I know I can be con­de­scend­ing when some­one tries to argue a point that I feel is wrong. And I know I get prej­u­di­cially con­de­scend­ing when deal­ing with cer­tain types of peo­ple. Aspies can be like that, and I think I feel it’s a lit­tle to my credit that over time I’ve learned to back off from poten­tial argu­ments and con­flicts in con­ver­sa­tions I’m pas­sion­ate about, and know­ing what oth­ers to avoid completely.

Reli­gion is one of those top­ics. But it’s one that I’m going to talk about because it has decided to greatly affect my fam­ily, and since few (if any) peo­ple read this blog, it’s prob­a­bly a place I can vent with­out get­ting into a con­fronta­tion. » Read more…

Short answer: because most of my “friends” from Face­book aren’t on it.

Longer answer: Twit­ter still has a fresh­ness to it that Face­book a while back when it because a Zynga gam­ing soci­ety. Not every­one who owns a com­puter is on it, but there are a good chunk of peo­ple who are. I can use it from my iPhone just as eas­ily as I can from a desk­top machine, and it’s pretty damned easy to make new friends with­out hav­ing to feel like you’re expos­ing your deep­est dark­est secrets like your pic­tures from a 6th grade class trip. There really isn’t the “com­mit­ment” involved that Face­book forces on you; you can fol­low some­one who seems cool solely for that rea­son and never inter­act with them, and the same goes in return. » Read more…

George Stein­bren­ner passed away today from a mas­sive heart attack. He was 80 years old. Stein­bren­ner was the prin­ci­pal owner of the New York Yan­kees and the def­i­n­i­tion of “hands-on owner” from the time the own­er­ship group he led pur­chased the team in 1973 until 2007 when he tran­si­tioned the day-to-day oper­a­tions of the Yan­kees to his sons. There had been rumors of health issues for sev­eral years, and after his sons took over the team he was seen less fre­quently pub­licly. » Read more…

I was lis­ten­ing to NPR on the way in to work today and they had a seg­ment about Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mock­ing­bird, which is near­ing its 50th anniver­sary as a pub­lished work. Mock­ing­bird is one of my favorite pieces of fic­tion; one I actu­ally read (instead of skim­ming) in high school and is one of those rare books where the movie is just as good; Gre­gory Peck will for­ever be Atti­cus Finch in my eyes. Did you know Harper Lee never pub­lished another book? Talk about going out on top. » Read more…

Been hav­ing some sleep issues lately, as you’d be able to tell by the time­stamp of this post. It’s not really stress-related, at least not obvi­ously, but it may just be my frus­tra­tion with a few things, my reac­tions to those frus­tra­tions, and the guilt I have with those reactions.

When I started to write this, I had more detail in mind, but get­ting side­tracked into updat­ing Word­Press and a few other things the inspi­ra­tion has sim­mered. I’m going to try to sleep now — if it doesn’t work, I’ll go into more detail.