http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/ en-us http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3150.html We are (hopefully) going to get word on whether we will be buying a house sometime this week. With that in mind, I am considering other changes I might make. I have been pretty happy with a lot of changes I've seen in myself lately; I have some new hob... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3149.html Welcome to the Suppository, home of the eloquent and informative Asylum Blogs! To make a blog for yourself, DON'T try to make a new thread in here. Don't click on the "New Thread" button. No! Don't! OH, GOD, NO! Dammit, you did it anyway. You should ... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3143.html We are currently in the process of applying for a mortgage and trying to buy a house. Here in north San Diego county, home prices have been skyrocketing for years; between about 2000 and 2006, they went absolutely nuts. When I applied for my current jo... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3138.html It's been a weird couple of weeks. At the end of January, while driving along the freeway (taking kids to school), my Jetta died. Turns out the timing belt slipped or snapped or some such, and since it's an interference engine, it trashed the engine. T... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3111.html Hypocrisy = failing to live up to one's stated ideals Hippocracy = political rule by horses Just something I've noticed recently. http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3109.html At the moment, I seem to be in an expansion mode. Not in terms of gaining weight, but in that I seem to be hungering for new ideas and new knowledge. Example: I've signed up (no pun intended) for online ASL courses. I've always been interested in sign ... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3068.html I've posted many times on the Asylum in defense of religious belief, tolerance of religious belief in others, etc. I've even argued fairly extensively about it with various folks. It thus strikes me as somewhat ironic that, in the last few months, I ha... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3061.html As usual, there's nothing particularly profound or new in these thoughts, it's just more of an online diary. I was listening to some interesting things on NPR today. One was a story about how Citigroup, the enormous banking megalopothingamabob, had de... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3033.html Just outside our front door, there is a patch of ground under the stairs which gets no direct sun at all. It's where the gas meters are, and it's basically an ignored area. Up until now, it has been occupied by some ivy. After completing the backyard ... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/Talarohk/post-3030.html My older son and I made a Japanese-ish garden for his school project. I had written a long, detailed post with long descriptions of our search for materials, etc., but somehow I just made it all vanish. So here's a recap. The site: a corner of our bac...