Falling Star

Sometimes you stare at the ceiling of life, unsure of what you are doing or where you are going. nothing can stop the feeling that your falling but there is nothing that can stop you, a flaming star crashing down upon the jagged landscape burning up in a smoldering crater of hopelessness and stress. When falling, most people panic, unsure of the ride and the sudden stop at the bottom, the duel rhythm of the beating heart of life and death pounding in their ears like a cacophony of drums. Crashing downwards, they resist and struggle, trying to find any method in which they can stop the inevitable downward spiral. They bounce and skip through the nighttime sky, breaking apart as they strike against the air until nothing is left but a trickle of dust at the very end. Life is very much about death, they are intertwined and twisted together since inception, the meaning of life tied to mortality, it is the natural state of things.

Frustration

Writing is an art form as much as putting a paintbrush onto canvas. In this 'digital' age the writers paintbrush has taken a new form and your vision suddenly falls to the whim of a painter who has no right to change your words. So when I had a friend point out tonight that my book had errors in it I was stunned. Going through my hard copy and what was saved in the file, I realized that the program which I was running on my PC had 'auto-corrected' the book without my permission. My hard work marred by a programmer far away who thought that he or she knew more than I did about what I had written down. 

So needless to say that although I might have been awake for close to twenty hours at this point, I have corrected the mistakes which this program made to my words. I am glad that I had caught this before I had submitted several very important documents for my applications into graduate school. I truly have entered a writer's worst nightmare, but I have caught it in time. 

Teaching an old dog new tricks

Well when I first went to the university I wasn't allowed to take an HTML class because they said that liberal arts majors didn't need it. Advance more than a decade and I would like to slap the 'know-it-alls' who decided this.

Happy New Year!

Well I would like to wish everyone a happy if not belated New Year! Welcome to 2011!

The Cold Weather Hiking Guide is coming along nicely, it has doubled in size since I began which has surprised me, but so far my testers have been very pleased with what I've suggested. In the very least they haven't frozen to death yet, which is excellent. Look to see that in ebook format soon!