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  • 2010
    • September
      • Moving the blog to The Butterfly Mage
        09/27/10
        Please visit my new blog called "The Butterfly Mage"

        http://butterflymage.blogspot.com

        Nature pics, Wiccan topics, fun stuff! :)

        Blessed be

        Indigo

    • July
      • Karaoke Fun
        07/17/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Melissa, Doug, and I had a real blast last night with karaoke. I do not have a melodious voice at all. In fact, it's downright gravelly. But no matter how badly I sing, I can always count in at least  one person being worse. 

        I don't do too badly if

      • Cool Ritual!
        07/11/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        One of the great things about Turning Circle is that the members take turns writing and leading worship services (I think we share that trait with the Quakers). Patrick led the rite for Friday. He prepared a combination Wiccan/Buddhist ceremony. There was a Buddhist invo

      • Been a while
        07/06/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        It’s been a while since I’ve done any serious blogging. I guess sometimes I get into a mood where I don’t feel like I have anything useful to say. Other times, I feel like I’m just going to waste space by whining about things I cannot change. I’ve also felt worn down lat

    • May
      • Christians Praise Malawi Law
        05/23/10
        I find it amazing Christians are praising the nation of Malawi for putting a gay couple in jail for 14 years.Many Christians on the associated comment forum (Newsvine) advocate putting all the gay citizens in the United States in jail.

        Lemme point out something: Republican Fundamentalist

      • Beltane, Games, Etc.
        05/09/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        It was very interesting last weekend. I was invited to a Beltane Rite run by an Alexandrian coven. The Alexandrians are a pretty old sect of Wicca and have many similarities to the Gardnarians. So… It was a very structured ritual that lasted five hours. I feel really hon

    • April
      • Forgotten
        04/27/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        I have exactly three (3) people that ever initiate contact with me: Doug, Doris, and Jeff. There are many other people that call themselves “friends” but, in reality, I don’t call a person who can’t make time for me a “friend”.

        I have a couple “friends” that o

      • Super-Workout!
        04/04/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        I was really glad that the weather was cooperative this weekend. I walked 5 miles on Friday, 2 miles yesterday, and 10 miles today. It was good to get some real exercise. It was sunny and warm too. 

        It's amazing what I can get the body to do if I have sun

    • March
      • Moon Service
        03/27/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        I worked my Spring Rite as this month’s moon service at Turning Circle. It’s a pleasant, life-affirming ritual in which the spellcrafting involves empowering a plant with our intentions of things we want to grow or improve in our lives. We’ve got two new regular visitors

      • Cool Weekend!
        03/22/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        This was a pretty cool weekend. On Friday night, Doug and I met up with his friend Melissa for some karioke. I was unaware that Metalica ever recorded a heavy metal version "Whiskey in the Jar". But I muddled through, heh heh.

        On Saturday, I did an

      • Feeling down
        03/17/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        There are times like this (awake for no good reason very early in the morning) when it really sinks in as to what a freak I am. It's really no wonder that I have so few friends. I'm a freak. I really do know this. The result, of course, of my unnatural existenc

      • Almost Spring
        03/16/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Unlike the dreadful weekend, it was sunny and mid-60s today. Now that the clocks have changed to the spring/summer mode, I was able to do a three-mile power-walk over at the NCR trail. It was nice. 

        One of the aspects of being a changeling and not a human is t

      • Sucktacular Weekend
        03/14/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        This weekend has been a typical Maryland weekend. It started raining Friday night. It’s rained all day Saturday. It’s raining all day today. It’s likely to clear up just in time for me to have to drag my tired rear-end into work on Monday. It just doesn’t seem fair. To a

      • Cool Visit
        03/02/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        While government jobs are hardly the most lucrative endeavor on the planet, they do have the advantage of offering a reasonable amount of vacation time. So this week I have been visiting my friend Doris in South Carolina. It’s a very pleasant “do nothing” vacation (as op

    • February
      • Headed to NYC
        02/20/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Yay! Doug and I are headed to New York today to see a musical on Broadway today. We're seeing "A Little Nght Music". It's got Angela Lansbury in the play. 

        Doug scrounged some really cheap bus tickets to get up there. For $26/each, we got r

      • Turning Circle Ritual
        02/13/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        The ritual service at Turning Circle was pretty nice last night. Pheonix led the ritual and she put a lot of work into it. We didn't have as many members as we usually do since the secondary roads are still partially buried, thanks to two snow storms back to back. <

      • Most boring week ever
        02/11/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Lemme tell ya… this has got to be one of the most boring weeks that I have ever encountered. The courthouse has been closed the entire week, so I was unable to actually do any actual work. I am bored out of my skull.

        I’m trying really hard to not get on Doug’s

      • Blizzard
        02/07/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        So… it snowed about 3’ in Baltimore. Some of the snow drifts are 6’ high. I can’t find the Accord. Seriously! The street in which I parked is mostly buried in a 4’ drift and all the cars on the street look like amorphous white dunes. I literally cannot tell which car is

      • racing thoughts
        02/05/10
        halo incarnates

        having racing thoughts. don’t like it. hard for mind to be quiet. don’t want to be crushed. don’t want bad things to happen. not cutting. feel like we have to. but am not. am not. am not. hate feeling like we have to cut. hate feeling like it’s needed. hate how our skin fe

      • Fake Friends
        02/04/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        One of the things that is a real drag is when I discover that someone I think is a friend is really someone who only likes being liked by others. There’s a HUGE difference between the two. I got “defriended” by this friend over an incredibly trivial political disagreemen

      • Selfish, Histrionic Flake
        02/01/10
        Selfish, Histrionic Flake!

        Indigo Incarnates

        I found out from my brother last night that my selfish, histrionic flake of a sister decided to move back to Tennessee without any forewarning or prior notice. She *had* been helping to take care of mom (who has a terminal illness).

    • January
      • Imbolc, Soul-freezing weather, and Two Rants!
        01/31/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Imbolc Stuff: First, I wanted to say that the Imbolc service at Turning Circle was very enjoyable. Since it's the Friday closest to Imbolc, the service honored Bridget, the Celtic goddess of blacksmithing, fire, poetry, and healing.


        As usual, we had

      • Ritual Planning
        01/26/10
        Indigo incarnates

        I'm pretty excited about leading three worship services this year at Turning Circle. I'm leading an esbit service (a Full Moon rite) at the end of February. I'm doing a Spring Rite in March, and I'm officiating over Samhain in October. I've writt

      • New Computer
        01/24/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        I am happy to say that, after four months of scrounging, I finally saved up enough money to buy a new computer. Yay! It's a cute little 13" Toshiba. So it's bigger than a netbook but smaller than a regular laptop. It's also got an "ecology" 

      • Weekend Stuff
        01/16/10

        Indigo Incarnates

        Last night was pretty cool. Phoenix led a New Moon ritual at Turning Circle. Phoenix is pretty good at leading worship services because she has a background in both Wicca and ADF Druidry.

        It's been over a year since we/I have had any cutting incid

      • Handbell Choir!
        01/06/10
        Indigo Incarnated

        Egads... It is really boring without Doug this week. I will be really glad when he comes home on Sunday. He said that it is STILL snowing in Erie! Aiee!

        Note to Phosgene: I made it home in one piece! Yay! Thanks for asking :)

        On the bright side, I s

      • Snowed in!
        01/03/10
        Indigo Incarnates

        Doug and I drove up to Erie to visit Doug's mom for New Year's Day. In the past, I was never able to visit because Doug's sister had violent tendencies. However, she died in 2009 so I was able to visit with the rest of Doug's family ( he has a pretty

  • 2009
    • December
      • 2009? Good Riddance!
        12/31/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I have to say that I won't miss much about 2009. It wasn't the worst year I've been alive to see, but I've certainly seen better. 

        In our personal lives, Doug's sister died of cancer this year. I got diagnosed with an inconvenient hear

      • Been a while
        12/29/09
        Indigo Incarnated

        I know it's been a while since I posted. It's the same tired story every year: the sun goes away, and with it so does my energy. Sometimes I feel like I'm maxed out just going to work and back. It doesn't help much that, in Baltimore, the sky can be o

      • Happy Yule!
        12/21/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Doug and I had a pretty low-key Yule today since the worship service at Cedar Light Grove got postponed until Saturday (thanks to about 2' of snow). But it really is nice getting REAL snow at least once per winter. And to have snow at Yule was a real bonus. 
      • Stupid idiots in snow
        12/19/09
        Ashen Incarnates

        The pathetic fools in Baltimore whine and cry over snow. Then they death themselves in bloated SUVs so they can buy five metric tons of bread, milk, and toilet paper. Pathetic. 

        It's also the Jesus Freak time of year. Nothing says "Christmas" lik

      • Shank-free day!
        12/10/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Today was the monthly community supervision day at work. As usual, three of the six people I was supposed yo verify did not actually live where they say they live. One had an upstairs neighbor who hollared down "He doesn't live here now!" Another house was

      • Episcopal Church Knifes GLBT Community
        12/01/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Although the Episcopal Church has a reputation as being at least somewhat GLBT-supportive, when the excrement hits the whirling blades, the Episcopal Church shows that it's no different than all the other hate-based, homophobic religions.

        There's a

    • November
      • Cool Thanksgiving Weekend
        11/28/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        The Thanksgiving weekend was surprisingly drama-free for a change. My uncle invited Doug and I over for Thanksgiving dinner and there was a reasonable amount of vegetarian things for me to eat. My uncle's sister refrained from making racial slurs or making disparagi

      • Odd Dell Experience
        11/25/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        So... the changeling effect claimed another victim recently. The laptop I bought about two years ago started having some serious (and expensive) problems. The keyboard and touchpad would become intermittantly unresponsive, one USB port was dead, and the machine started h

      • Cruise!
        11/10/09
        Indigo incarnates

        Doug and I leave for out cruise tomorrow morning at 6:00 am. There's nothing like a three hour wait to get on an airplane followed by a six-hour flight. Urg! We were smart and got a jet for the day before so we don't have to worry about missing the boat.

      • The Ten Commandments in Practice
        11/07/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        We are all familiar with Exodus 20. It’s not a bad set of rules as far as religious rules go: Love God, love your spouse and parents, and don’t lie, cheat, steal, covet, or kill. Sadly, this set of rules is outdated for modern Christianity. I’ve been an observer of Chris

      • My Resolve
        11/06/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        First, let me offer a disclaimer: what I am about to write does NOT apply to Doris, Nancy, Nick, or Joan. It does apply to all other Christians.

        Christianity declared war against the gay community back in the Reagan era. The Church was had great exultation whe

    • October
      • Hiding out
        10/31/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Since Doug is away for a few days and Samhain was last night, I'm sorta keeping a low profile tonight so I don't get inundated with neighborhood kiddies wanting candy. Egads. So, I have all the lights out downstairs and I'm watching a movie upstairs. Gotta

      • Dark
        10/24/09
        Halo incarnates

        is hard sometimes. Sometimes worry. Bad dreams. Sometimes afraid to sleep. Am tired. Hate nightmares. Am tired. Feel like cutting. Didn't cut. Hard to not do it. Didn't cut. Am so tired.

      • hate it
        10/21/09
        halo incarnates

        hate being incomplete. will never be whole. will never be how we should be. hate the memory. hate what happened. didn’t ask for it. didn’t want it to happen. didn’t ask for it. was forced. hated it. hated it hated it. will never be free of it. will always be haunted. hate

      • Racing thoughts
        10/20/09
        Halo incarnates

        hate myself. Want to cut. Hate feeling ashamed. Hate being haunted.

      • Gloom and Doom
        10/17/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It’s been dark, rainy, and cold for three days straight and the weather forecast predicts another four days just like it. Nice. It’s the kind o weather that makes this body ache. I can feel a sort of echo of every major injury I’ve ever had. I know that as a Wiccan I’m s

      • The Wiccan Path
        10/12/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Every time I lead or participate in a Wiccan rite, I get more assured that this is the right spiritual path for me. I think it significant that the Wiccan deities are a god and goddess of nature. In Christianity, Judeaism, and Islam, the deity is a god of war. In Wicca,

      • Cool weekend!
        10/11/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        With just one exception, this weekend has been pretty cool. On Friday, I led an Autumn rite at Turning Circle. The worship service went pretty well. The thing about Wicca is that there is a real focus on community and on personal spiritual development. At Turning Circle,

      • He got the award... for what?
        10/10/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It’s hard to imagine a person less deserving of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama. The only one I can think of is the late, unlamented arch-terrorist/thief Yassir Arafat.

        When I heard that Obama was going to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the f

      • Busy week
        10/08/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        This week has been rough so far. I had to run two case books since one of the agents was out sick. I handles about a hundred cases! The horror!!! And there's some odd and sinister thing going on at the higher echelons of management. I have the dreaded feeling that t

      • Fun weekend stuff!
        10/04/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It's been a really fun weekend, the most enjoyable one I've had in a while. It also didn't cost that much money either.Yay!

        So Doug, Jeff, and I went to "Field of Screams" this weekend since it is "Haunted House Season". The

      • Thug-O-Matic
        10/01/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        By a coincidence in trial dates, I was able to jettison about 15% of my caseload in just one day! Whooo-hoo! One of the cases was my only handgun file. Yay! So now I'm back down to 54 cases. ::whew::

        One of the cases was kinda frustrating. You have to won

    • September
      • Getting caught up
        09/28/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I think this is the time of year in which my energy level goes way down. It’s hard when it’s pitch black when I get up in the morning. Soon it’ll be pitch black when I get off work too. For the past two weeks it has been overcast or r

    • June
      • A shank-free day!
        06/25/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        One of my duties as a Case Agent is community supervision. So once each month I pick six people out of my case book and verify that they live where they say they live. It is nice getting out of the office for the day.

        The thing about Baltimore is that it is ba

      • will not let it happen
        06/24/09
        halo incarnates

        will not let skinny mom go hungry. will not let her run out of food. will not let her go hungry.

      • Rage
        06/22/09
        Ashen Incarnates

        I let loose the flames of rage. That coward, cousin Carl, is a pion of Uncle Jimmy -- a spy, a lackey, an underling. He reports all that he sees to that greedy bastard. We let him know that WE know that he does this. We shamed him verbally for letting the skinny mother be

      • Littha Sabbat
        06/21/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Today is Litha Sabbat, a Wiccan holiday that celebrates the summer solstice. It's also my mom's birthday, so I visited mom for her birthday.

        I bought mom a pentacle for her birthday. Every witch needs a pentacle! Mom likes hers a lot. Jenny (my siste

      • Obama: An American Disappointment
        06/21/09
        So, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that there hasn't been a lot of policy "change" since Obama was elected?

        BUSH: Funded a two-front war in the Middle East that cost $10 billion per month and has no concrete mission objectives.
        OBAMA: Continued funding of a

      • Tired of being alive
        06/20/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Sometimes I just get tired of being alive. I'm not a natural creature anyway. I'm wholly artificial in almost every conceivable way. In essence, I'm something of a placeholder for the original person who occupied this body. That person is incapacitated and

      • Pressured
        06/18/09
        Halo incarnates

        Feeling pressured. Feel like we have to cut. Hate who we are. Am worthless. Am stupid. Hate who we are. Need to cut. Blood pays for sins. Hate who we are. Hate myself. Am worthless. Hate being like someone who is dead. Hate being left behind. Hate being hated. Hate myself.

      • Bad
        06/15/09
        Halo incarnates

        Hate that the plants are gone. Hate that they are gone. Unfair. Was unfair. Plants are good. Didn't cause harm. Was good. Now they are gone. Everything's dead. Hate it. Hate the void. Hate them not being here. Hate everything being dead. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it

      • 100-Item Meme
        06/14/09
        Indigo Incarnates


        I shamelessly stole this one from San

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        1. Started my own blog [yes]. I've got three blogs on three severs, but they all say the same thing.

        2. Slept under the stars. [yes]. On Assateaque Island. I am surprised that the gr

      • Crime Fighting in Baltimore City
        06/14/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Ah, Baltimore... The City That Bleeds. Doug and I got a chance yesterday to find out firsthand how Baltimore fights crime: we got a $160 civil fine for not mowing the back yard.

        Yeah. Baltimore has the highest murder rate in the country. The case clearance for

      • Communion
        06/10/09
        Thistle Incarnates

        I think often of Deity and how good it is to serve the function for which I was created. Deity shines. Deity is real. It is Deity that granted me life and fashioned me as the being that I am. It is good to have peace with the manner of one's existence. It is my dut

      • 42-mile Bike Ride!
        06/09/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Thanks to a big pipe breaking at the courthouse, the court closed at 10:30am yesterday. So, since the weather was really nice and I had six extra hours of free time, I did a 42 mile bike ride on the NCR trail. The trail used to be a railroad line that connected Cockeyesv

      • What does "GM" stand for?
        06/06/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        There used to be a time that GM built cars and employed Americans. Nowadays, GM seems to be the government's favorite charity case. Now the government owns a controlling interest in GM. Amazing how the times have changed, eh? So, my minions, if you had to pick a new

      • Baltimore is #1 -- in murder, that is!
        06/04/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I was very excited yesterday that the citizens of Baltimore managed to pull together to make our city #1 in something. Alas, my excitement ebbed when I realized that we are now #1 in homocide. Yeah, we beat Detroit. That is no small accomplishment. Apparently the recent

      • More T-Mobile Drama
        06/03/09
        For T-Mobile to be #1 in customer service, it tells me that the telecommunications industry is in pretty bad shape. I seem to keep having this ongoing fight with T-Mobile at the beginning of each month. My "unlimited use" plaan keeps getting cut off after 10 Gb of data transfer. When I cal

      • Another Fun Bike Ride!
        06/02/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I did another ten miles on my bike after work today. The NCR trail is just so pleasant this time of year. There are so many birds twittering and the trees are green. It's nice riding through alternating sun and shade. In the evening, the bike trail is nearly empty.

      • Self-destructing footwear!
        06/01/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Man! It was awful today. I have a pair of dress shoes for work that are only a year old, but I suspect they must have the same quality control as Chrysler. The whole sole of my right shoe came off during my lunch break. Egads! It's a good thing that I keep a tube of

    • May
      • The Observed Ten Commandments
        05/31/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        While the Ten Commandments as written in Exodus 20 makes a fine blueprint for a civilized nation, it seems to be a bit outdated in the context of modern-day Christianity. I figure that the next version of the Bible should be updated to reflect the values that Christians

      • 30 Mile Bike Ride
        05/30/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        This was my first extended bike ride of the summer. Usually I build up to doing a full 42 miles. Today I started with 30 miles. Whooo-hoo!

        One of the perks of not being human is being able to push this body beyond the usual limitations. It helps that it was su

      • The really long hard drive backup (aaaiiieee!!!!)
        05/29/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        So... My portable hard drive bit the dust and I wanted to back up my netbook since it's just a dinky 2 pound machine and therefore fragile. But hey, I have over 100 Gb of unused space on my domain account so I figured I'd just back up the hard drive to a hidden

      • Understanding Christian Morality
        05/28/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        One of the effects of the Christofascist Prop 8 tragedy is that it serves as a stunning reminder of how Christianity is a wolf in sheep's clothing. In fact, it's an apex super-predator in sheep's clothing. While this religion prides itself as being a stand

      • Hate Defeats Love in California
        05/27/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I suppose that Christians nationwide must be dancing a jig after the California Supreme Court effectively ruled that Christian dogma concerning same-sex unions must be upheld as the law of the land. As of yesterday, California is officially a Christian Theocracy, not a s

      • Fun Visit!
        05/24/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It is a really cool visit so far. I am so glad that Doris got her new car so she could drive up to see me. She is such a nice friend. :)

        Yesterday was a pretty low-impact day. We did some shoe shopping. We both hate shopping but Doris got lucky and found a pai

      • A Stolen Meme!
        05/21/09
        I stole this one from Java :)
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        1. What is your current obsession?
        Hybrid cars. I really want a new car and it's got to be a hybrid. But I can't even think about getting a new car until 2012. I want the Honda Insight-II.

        2. What

      • Fun New York Day!
        05/16/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Since this is our 10th Anniversary weekend, Doug and I went up to New York for a day trip. It was an action-packed day!

        We started out with our usual coffee and muffin experience at Dean & Deluca's. I just love their muffins since they have an oddly c

      • Ten Years!
        05/15/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I am happy to say that as of today Doug and I have been together ten years! There are so many good things to say about Doug. He's kind, funny, and smart. He's a big fan of our three pets. He's good at his job. He lost 12 pounds. He makes nice dinners for u

      • Really Goofy Dream
        05/11/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Fortunately I have it on good authority from Doris that some dreams are just random synaptic events and don't neccessarily have to *mean* anything. That's good, since the dream I had last night would throw a therapist for a loop, heh heh.

        So... In th

      • Gratitude
        05/10/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I got inspired from reading Celtic's blog. She posed the idea that we should consider what we are grateful for in this life. I have to say that there quite a few things I'm grateful for!

        -- Doug. My loving partner that has stayed with me through time

      • Handbell Sunday
        05/10/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        We had a real treat today at St John's this morning. Rev Nick did the sermon! As most of you know, I attend Christian church services about once a month since Thistle is Christian and we are in handbell choir. Most of the time we get bored to tears with the poorly w

      • Poetry Readings
        05/09/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        We has a group poetry reading last night at Turning Circle. In the Wiccan calendar, we're sort on inbetween High Rites right now, so Patrick led a service that honored the first recorded poet in history (I misplaced the paper, but the spelling's a doozie).
      • haunted
        05/06/09
        halo incarnates

        hate being the one to remember. hate having to remember. hate how it was. hate nightmares. father monster hates us. hurt us. haunts us. sends his evil spirit to haunt us. is still alive but haunts us. hates us. won't ever stop trying to hurt us. hate what he did. hate

      • The Beltaine Fire!
        05/02/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Well, technically yesterday was Beltaine. But Cedar Light Grove has their services on Saturday evenings so I will attend it tonight. I always like going to CLG for High Rites. The druid leader, Will, has been practicing the craft so long that he has the entire liturgy me

      • Questionable Leadership
        05/01/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I was thinking about world leaders and how some of them get carried away with crimes of violence. Some eventually pay while others go scott-free. There's one leader that seems to always evade justice.

        The person I'm thinking of has, in the past, used

    • April
      • Eight Mile Walk!
        04/29/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I played hookey from choir last night for two reasons: I didn't have enough gas to get there and back (and it was the day before payday so I was flat broke) and the weather was just too nice to stay indoors. I did, however, have enough gas to get to the NCR trail (i

      • I assembled a futon!
        04/25/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        So... Doug ordered a Futon a few weeks ago. The sales dude told Doug that when it arrived that it would be in three pieces and only require four bolts. Lemme tell ya: when it arrived it had about 100 pieces and three dozen bolts and two dozen other fasteners. Whoo-hoo! T

      • The Right Path
        04/23/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It's been over a year since I began studying Wicca. I'm an initiate now and I've officiated at four worship services, two of which I wrote the liturgy for. I have to say how glad I am that I found this spiritual path (or maybe I was found?) It's wond

      • Police protection? Not on weekends!
        04/20/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        As another "perk" of living in Baltimore, Doug and I learned this weekend that the police department no longer makes non-emergency responses on weekends. Our white-trash neighbors across the street decided to through an unreasonably loud party on Saturday night

      • Not much going on
        04/16/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Usually I post more often than this, but it's been a particularly uneventful week.

        I did see that there is a defendant on Pretrial Supervision with a firearm charge -- and his name is "Raygun". What a riot!

        Doug got his state tax refu

      • Fun Weekend :)
        04/12/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        From a religious perspective, it was a pretty fun weekend. On Friday, I went to a drum circle at Turning Circle. I don't actually own a drum, so I brought my rain stick. I think my rain stick added a nice sound to the group. Another member brought a finger chime. Th

      • TechnoRant
        04/09/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Well, I'm afraid it's time for one of my periodic TechnoRants. You know, when I gripe about technological things that should work a lot better than they do, but don't.

        --- Internet Explorer 8
        Wow! What a piece of garbage! IE7 was faster. IE

      • hi
        04/08/09
        am willow

        was pretty today
        windy and cool
        pretty sky
        some trees have flowers now
        pink and white
        so pretty
        am glad the trees are waking up
        saw yellow and purple flowers

      • Tagged with a MeMe!
        04/05/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I got tagged with a MeMe by Whimsical (via her Facebook account). Since I can never resist these, I'm posting them below. I'm tagging Java, Joan, Tiger Yogi, and Doug!

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        Tag 15 people to do the same thing (and me, too). 1. WE

      • Palm Sunday
        04/05/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Today is Palm Sunday and it occurs to me that, other than technology, not a lot about the human condition has changed in two thousand years.

        If you really want to read between the lines, Jesus was essentially executed for what would today be considered "d

      • Neighborhood Trees
        04/03/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I am really proud of Doug this week. He's gone on four 2-mile walks around the neighborhood. I went out with him on a walk tonight and took some pictures of trees along the 2-mile circuit.
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      • tired
        04/02/09
        Halo incarnates

        Am tired. Knees hurt all night. Would make pain stop. Can do that. Made it stop. But then knees would hurt later. Then would make it stop. Then knees would hurt again. Made us tired. Can control pain. Can make it stop. But makes us tired to do it. Am tired. Was a long nigh

      • Desperado
        04/01/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I managed to get a no-goodnick locked up today at work. I think the felon in question was possibly the least amenable person ever on my case book. He was a gun-toting drug dealer who alsso had a history of beating up his girlfriend. He was also a counterfeitter (maybe h

    • March
      • Glad to not be Catholic
        03/30/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Y'know... There are times when I wonder if the Vatican could have picked a more clueless Pope to be the successor to John Paul II. He made some Papal "pronouncements" that just left me scratching my head.

        "Condoms Spread the AIDS Virus"

      • Rocky II
        03/29/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I'm not referring to the sylvester Stallone movie, of course, hee hee. I did another 10 mile walk on the NCR trail and tool some more pictures of cool rock formations. It was a really nice walk. I heard so many birds twittering and cawing. I saw two cardinals as wel

      • Signs of life
        03/28/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        It's been a week since Ostara (spring equinox) and I'm happy to say that it seems like the dreaded, soul-freezing winter really is finally over. It was drizzling today but it was warm outside so I took a two mile walk. The flowers and trees are awakening. I

      • A brief vent/rant
        03/25/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I have to vent about something that really pissed me off last night. My choir master has known for years that I have a dissociative disorder. She also knows that it's dangerous for me to drive too late at night. As energetic as I am during the day, that energy fades

      • Lots of Rocks!
        03/22/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I did a ten mile walk on the NCR trail today since the weather was so nice. There isn't much greenery yet since the weather has been pretty uncooperative. So i took some pictures of some pretty rocks. It was a really nice day today and Thistle got to fly. It was rea

      • Thoughts on deity
        03/21/09
        Thistle Incarnates

        There is sunlight today. It is good to have sunlight. It is good to fly. The winter has been cold and grey and too little energy. It is good to have energy.

        I think of deity and think of how religion tries to help people think of deity. I do not think deity n

      • BGE Bonus Bonanza
        03/20/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Ever since the former governor gave BGE (the power company) permission to operate as an unregulated monopoly, the utility has raised rates through the freakin' roof. My winter heating bill used to be around $250/month, set at 68 degrees. Now it's $650/month, se

      • On the mend
        03/18/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        One of the perks of not being human is that when I get any of the pesky human illnesses, they just don't last as long and they don't hit me as hard. Basically, I've missed a whopping six days of work over an 18 year period! Being a changeling does have its

      • tired
        03/17/09
        Halo incarnates

        Illness makes the body tired. Am tired. Don't like it when body doesn't work right. Don't like having illness. Hard to rest. Hard to sleep. Am tired.

        Skinny-mom is sick again. Am afraid. Skinny-mom is too skinny. Gets sick too easy. Can't fix

      • Caught a cold
        03/16/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I seem to have caught a cold. Ugh. I always try to avoid those petty human illnesses. But I'll do my best to surpress the illness. It sucks.

        The thing I don't get about the common cold is why one's nose has to keep dripping and dripping and dri

      • Graduation!
        03/15/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I had been taking a Wiccan Studies class over at Turning Wheel bookstore and last night was the last class. So I graduated! Yay!! The teacher (Aleta) gave us cords for our robes to signify that we comopleted the first year training. The second year is going to start at t

      • Pissed off at T-Mobile
        03/14/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        As you all know, I'm something of a tech junkie. So, a few weeks ago, I bought a 3G phone from T-Mobile to use as a wireless modem for my laptop computer. It worked out pretty good until t-mobile changed their policy regarding the use of phones as modems. Apparently

      • Spring Rite
        03/14/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        I'm happy to say that my Spring Rite went really well last night at Turning Circle. Since it wasn't actually held on March 21st, I called it a "spring" rite instead of an "Ostara" rite. that, and I invoked the Goddess in the general form as

      • The Blog is baaaaack!!
        03/14/09
        Indigo Incarnates

        Amazingly enough, I was able to figure out why my domain account was having so many problems. It's supposed to have 50 Gb worth of storage (more than I'll ever use) but it actually only had 50 Mb of storage (which I could easily use up). So the blog had been ar