Update on my grandmother: she had been recovering well for a while, but this past week she’s come down with pneumonia and meningitis. They moved her into comfort care earlier today, and it seems like everyone’s getting ready for the inevitable. Hence my lack of updates the past couple of days. I’ll probably have a lot to write about her in a short while, but I’m not sure that’s something I’ll necessarily want to post to the .org. In other news, I am hoping like…

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It’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present the specs for Yggdrasil Mark I, which miraculously powered up and worked even though I put it together myself: Case: Generic black case from Stone Computer (local retailer)Motherboard: Asus P4S533-X from AJump (I had to have an Asus)Processor: Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz from GooglegearMemory: 512MB Kingston PC2700 RAM from NewEgg.comHard Drive: Maxtor 120GB UltraATA/133 HD from Best BuyFloppy Drive: Panasonic Black 3.5″ Floppy from NewEgg.comCD/DVD Drive: Samsung SM-348B DVD/CDRW combo drive from Best BuyGraphics card:…

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The universe seemed to realize I was really in need of some good news here … Publication Alert: My poem “Orange Juice” will be appearing in the fourth quarter edition of the journal Offerings. Slowly but surely, I think I may be accumulating a bit of a credential list for my MFA applications.

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New on Backwash.com: “Interpersonal Relationships”. I intended this to be a kind of adjunct to my most recent .journal entry, discussing the stigmas that people who discuss their personal problems on the Internet receive, as well as society’s general mishandling of the depressed. In the end I think I wound up kvetching about myself more than anything else, but I think I managed to cram a few salient points in there.

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