Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Hello, 2014...
2014 Wheezy Lists
2013: http://suburbaneschatology2.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-wheezy-list.html
2012: http://suburbaneschatology2.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-wheezy-lists.html
- Lindsey Lohan
- Charlie Sheen
- Tom Brokaw
- Bob Dylan
- Charlie Watts
- Leonard Cohen
- Christopher Lee
- Liza Minnelli
- G. W. Bush
- Madonna
- Carol Burnett
- Clint Eastwood
- Arlo Guthrie
- Jimmy Carter
- Christopher Lloyd
- Tim Conway
- Shirley Temple Black
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Craig T. Nelson
- Dick Van Dyke
Friday, January 4, 2013
2012 in 40 Questions: A “Meme”tastic New Year
I usually do not do this, but what the hell. I’ve been wanting to write something about the transition from one arbitrary set of days to the next arbitrary set of days, and this meme provides as good of a format as anything…
I stole the questions from a friend’s blog. Don’t know where she got them from.
2012 was a complicated year. Maybe a meme is what I need to help make sense of it.
1 What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
This gets right to the meat and bones of how 2012 will go down in the books…
Families are complicated these days, and instead of having just two parents, this number can range from one to many. For me, there are four, though my mother and father both married their current spouses after I was grown, so I tend to refer to them as my parents’ husband and wife as opposed to “stepparents.”
However, I’ve been fearing the day when one of the “big four” would pass, having just buried the last of my grandparents a couple years back…
On November 8, my mother’s husband Mario passed. While he was still more of my mother’s husband than my stepfather, his passing is in the process of completely re-arranging my world.
I’ve been fearing having to make funeral arrangements for anyone, no longer... I’ve been fearing “what to do” with mom or dad when the time came when they could no longer live on their own, no longer…
A lot of firsts are wrapped up in this event.
2 Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes and No.
I wanted to make further strides towards becoming a “professional” photographer & writer in fields outside of Technical Writing, and life was too complicated this year to do much towards pursing this goal, other than just taking a lot of pictures. This is a goal that will continue in 2013.
This time last year my number one goal was to try to get a gallery showing (okay, some pictures on a coffeehouse or bar wall) by the end of the year. Not even close.
However, I did get two-thirds the way through draft of a novel, and that ain’t nothing. If life had gone according to plan, that draft would have been finished by January 1, 2013.
These sorts of things are more goal than resolutions, but resolutions are not something I really do. Daily resolutions are more my pace, since life in recovery is lived, in this sense, one day at a time.
3 Did anyone close to you give birth?
Since I have to pause and think before answering this question, I will say no.
4 Did anyone close to you die?
Yes.
5 What countries did you visit?
Only my own.
6 What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
The space and time to not only develop some more serious career goals but to actually have the space and time to pursue them.
7 What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 8. See many of my other answers here.
8 What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Seeing the progress my children have made towards overcoming their issues since I got custody in 2011.
9 What was your biggest failure?
Not being able to help the boys’ mother progress further towards overcoming some of her issues.
10 Did you suffer illness or injury?
Other than a pesky strained ankle that bugged me from the spring through the end of the summer until I got off my feet a bit and let it heal, no. Thank God!
11 What was the best thing you bought?
While I received some amazing gifts this year, I bought very little for myself outside of a few books about once every three months. Probably a subscription to flikr PRO would be the most rewarding and productive “purchase” of the year.
12 Whose behavior merited celebration?
My children have been remarkable this year.
13 Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The Congressional Republicans? The news media? Of course. On a more personal front, I would rather not go there. I truly believe that everyone in my life has been trying to do the best they can, though mileage has varied.
14 Where did most of your money go?
Money?
15 What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Watching my boys really come together in 2012. Specifically, the big one seeing some real, independent success in school and the little one making new friends where ever he goes.
Of course, the opportunities brought about by having reliable transportation after a nearly year of busing, biking, and walking and from the DSLR I received for my birthday/Christmas are up there too. Finding out about the Adobe Cloud (which gives me all the software I’ll need for my 2013 goals at a price even I can afford) ranks pretty highly, as well.
16 What song will always remind you of 2012?
Really, this is hard to answer right now. It will be interesting to see what songs take me back to this period of my life in the future.
Probably anything by Murder By Death, O’Death, Ha Ha Tonka, and Kelly Hogan’s I Like To Keep Myself In Pain will be taking me back to the 2011 / 2012 period years from now.
But, if I have to pick one song, “Society” by Eddie Vedder will probably be the song I associate the most with 2012. Partially because I am using it in my One Day On Earth video, so I am hearing it a lot right now, but mostly because of the lyrics.
This song reflects a lot of what I have learned about myself in 2012. A lot about how my perceptions of what I need and want from the world have changed this year. How my perceptions about where I am in life and where I am heading in life have changed over the last 12 months or so.
It is the song I used in this video.
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 - Stills I: What I Have & What I Need from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.
17 Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
This is a difficult question. There is a lot of sorrow right now, and a lot of fear due to some major changes taking place in my life, re-defining my life, but I would say that, underneath it all, I am happier.
I am more content and I am more secure about who I am, what I am doing in life, and where I am going in life and, really, who could ask for more?
So, happier, I would say, though this is a difficult and sad time.
ii. thinner or fatter?Easy one, thinner. Though that may not be the case if I don’t start getting some more exercise soon.
iii. richer or poorer?Spiritually, I am much richer. Financially, about the same.
18 What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I had the time and energy to work more with the boys’ mother and to help her find a more content place in her own life.
And more camping and hiking. Always. But I got as much in as circumstances would allow in 2012.
19 What do you wish you'd done less of?
Staring at screens in unproductive ways. Mostly this would have been last winter. It took awhile for me to figure out what I wanted to be doing with this time in my life and spending my “free time” trying to drive up hits on my websites was not the best use of my time, though I re-oriented away from this fairly early in 2012.
20 How will you be spending Christmas?
Past tense, now. Not in any way I could have foreseen before November 8. I had hoped to spend Christmas with all of my family in California celebrating a hell of a lot of successes since my last trip down here in 2010 / 2011.
Unfortunately, aside from my geographical location, this Christmas couldn’t have been more opposite from that and it was not a pleasant day.
xMass 2012: Fair Oaks, California from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.
22 Did you fall in love in 2012?
No. Not even close.
23 How many one-night stands?
Huh?
24 What was your favorite TV program?
Firefly. It and Lost were the only two shows I took any time to watch this year and I really enjoyed both of them, though Firefly wins by a nudge. Of course, they were only new to me.
25 Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. I don’t have the time for that crap.
26 What was the best book you read?
I re-discovered Faulkner and loved every second I spent reading the Snopes Trilogy in 2012 (though I am still finishing the third novel, The Mansion).
27 What was your greatest musical discovery?
Easily Ha Ha Tonka. Never heard of them before they opened up for Murder By Death this summer.
28 What did you want and get?
Most everything I needed. Really. I am not kidding, even in a materialistic sense. I was very blessed in this way this year.
29 What did you want and not get?
Well, I still need a new external hard drive, though access to my mother’s laptop has mitigated this need temporarily. Other than that, nothing comes to mind.
30 What was your favorite film of this year?
I will say The Hobbit though I have yet to see it yet. Just the fact that it exists is enough for me.
This was not a big year for movies for me and, after the Dark Night shootings, my interest in going to the theater really evaporated. Strange, for me. Such things usually do not affect me like that. Finances were also an issue for most of the year and contributed quite a bit to this gap.
Oh, and I might have been one of the only people in the world to have given John Carter a fair shot and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
31 What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 40 and had a very nice day taking pictures and exploring the country outside of Sacramento before spending a great evening with an old friend.
I suppose I am fortunate that I got all of the turning 40 angst out of my system last year when I turned 39.
32 What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If the boys’ mother had been able to make a bit more progress towards her treatment goals.
33 How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Huh?
34 What kept you sane?
Faith. Period. Though photography and writing helped a lot. It was nice adding the writing to the mix for the first time in years.
35 Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Really?
36 What political issue stirred you the most?
Of course the presidential election had me the most fired up, but the most moving issue for me was to see that Gay Rights are becoming accepted by a majority of Americans. It is abhorrent to me to see my LGBT friends not being treated as equals in the U.S.
There is still a long way to go with these issues, but I really believe that 2012 will be seen as the year when the tide irrevocably turned on LGBT rights.
37 Who did you miss?
Mario and, while I am away helping mom through this time, my children.
38 Best new person you met?
A great community of local Portland writers in the NaNo Portland Facebook group.
In “real” life, though I did not technically meet them this year, I gained a couple of good, new friends in the faith and recovery communities and I look forward to building those friendships more in 2013.
39 Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
It is not a lesson I learned this year, but it was re-affirmed in some powerful ways... Faith can get us through anything.
40 Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
No.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2013 Wheezy List
2012: http://suburbaneschatology2.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-wheezy-lists.html
Me:
- Lindsey Lohan
- Charlie Sheen
- Charlie Watts
- George H.W. Bush
- Madeline Albright
- Walter Koeing (Chekov)
- Paris Hilton
- Bob Dole
- Gladys Knight
- B. B. King
Melanie:
- Cher
- Willie Nelson
- Tom Cruise
- Hillary Clinton
- William Shatner
- Leonard Nimoy
- Henry Winkler
- Madonna
- Dolly Parton
- Kim Kardashian
Jenna:
???
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Bella: On being a cow...
Crap, just noticed my Suburban Eschatology: Life & Parenting board is now featured on Snip.it... Now I feel obligated to actually update it with interesting content more than once ever six weeks.
http://snip.it/collections/3528-Suburban-Eschatology-Part-Two-Life—Parenting
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Friday, February 3, 2012
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Friday, January 27, 2012
I am pretty sure I worked for this company before…
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: New Hire Form Letter For the Modern American Worker.:
Our staff consists of many talented former professionals who were unfortunately laid-off without warning during the financial collapse: surgeons, engineers, educators, pilots, medical technicians. We understand that you might consider this new position somewhat of a “downgrade,” both financially and mentally; that screwing metal pieces together is “mindless labor.” But we think your skills will prove invaluable considering the number of hands accidentally severed off in our factory. Perhaps you could invent new prosthetic limbs or concoct an amazing super drug that prevents workers from ever falling asleep. Who knows? Don’t be shy. Be creative! IMPORTANT NOTE: Please know we cannot offer additional compensation for these services. You wouldn’t pay an office’s designated Fire Marshall for his or her volunteer work, would you?
…
We encourage growth and career advancement through our “Spread Your Wings”™ program. Many of the upstanding gentlemen carrying whips and prodding tired laborers awake started at this company in the same position as you find yourself today. With a bit of hard work and offering turn-coat information about secretive organized revolts, you too can work your way to the top of the food chain.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Discombobulating randomness…
| From 2011-12 (Dec) |
Random thoughts wandering through my mind… Found a new-to-me band that I like this morning, Slowdive. Hate today's photo of the day. It is too blurry. But I think it would look great in B&W… I might re-post it that way tomorrow.
I forgot my #1 rule… I wanted it to be the photo I wanted, not the photo it was. Same rule applies to EVERYTHING in art. I've got to let it be what it is, music, photography, writing, not forcing it to be what I want it to be, not trying to make it into something that it is not… That's the way I get my best stuff, at least.
I am still feeling discombobulated. I wanted to fire out of the gate into the new year, instead I stumbled out, teetering and tottering. So far, no falling on my face. But no great burst of productivity, as I'd hoped.
I suppose in life as in art, one has to live the life God hands us, not the one we want. Trying to do otherwise only, for me, at least, creates conflict, chaos, and confusion.
Really, I am just bitter because I wanted to feel rested and refreshed for the start of the new year. Instead, I still feel tired and burned out. I just want the little bookkeeping chores I have left over from last year to resolve themselves and to really start fresh, but that is not life.
Of course, procrastination can bring a resolution to almost any task, but usually not with the desired results. Not that I am procrastinating, but I feel like I am not getting much done.
The boys are back in school and there are a lot of appointments this week. I need to remind myself, on the family front, all the critical tasks are being knocked down. The other tasks are just my own, personal wants. They have little to do, though they are not completely disconnected from, my family's needs. So I am probably being a bit hard on myself.
However, one area probably needs attention… I feel like I am floating through chaos, grabbing at what ever piece of flotsam and jetsam that happens to drift by. I need to take some time in the next day or two and really put together a plan for the next two or three weeks. I need to get organized.
I have a definite deadline on the 11th for one project and a softer, personal deadline on the 16th for completing some other projects. Everything not done by MLK Day is pretty much going to be put on the back burner until I get back to work. Starting that Tuesday, finding a new work contract is my number one priority.
Most of what I want to do between then and now does involve preparations for that big project. But before I start on those preparations, I do want to tie up a few loose ends. Very soon, hopefully, I will have almost zero free time. There are a few personal projects I would like to complete before that happens and a few projects I should complete to help that come about. Still, it feels like a lot, almost too much, to get done in a week and a half.
But it is not. I just need to get busy and use my time wisely and follow the priorities I was able to work out for myself over the break. This was a good time for some soul searching and some redefining of priorities. I identified some goals I would like to accomplish this year and identified some preliminary steps to take to start moving towards these goals. Vague plans, but they have to be at this point in my life. I was also able to switch some gears and to get re-aligned with the new goals that the new year brings.
2012 is not going to be an easy year but it, hopefully, will be a rewarding year. This could be a much tougher year than last year and it definitely will be a much more complicated year than 2011. A lot of what I am feeling, these mixed concerns and fears, are probably due to this knowledge. However, I have to take it one day at a time and remember that the results are in God's hands, not mine. I am merely responsible for showing up and putting in the effort.
That is all I can do.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
2012 Wheezy Lists
| From 2012-01 (Jan) |
This is an old tradition with Jenna, going back to before I met her twelve years ago… We pick ten celebrities that, for whatever reason, we don’t expect to make it through the New Year.
This is Jack’s first year participating.
She has some arcane scoring system, but I don’t know what it is. Essentially, the elderly and the walking dead only get partial points.
Some names are pretty random, picking the long shots…
No prizes, just a vague feeling of superiority at besting the other competitors.
Our picks for this year (in no particular order)…
Me:
- Dick Clark
- Lindsey Lohan
- Charlie Sheen
- Justin Bieber
- John Lithgow
- Tom Brokaw
- Henry Winkler
- Luke Perry
- Charlie Watts
- Morgan Freeman
Jenna:
- Joan Rivers
- Matthew Broderick
- Lindsey Lohan
- Charlie Sheen
- Hulk Hogan
- Larry Hagman
- Willie Nelson
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Sherman Helmsley
- Hayley Mills
Jack:
- Justin Bieber
- Ryan Seacrest
- Dick Clark
- Hulk Hogan
- Morgan Freedman
- Charlie Sheen
- Jason Priestley
- Will Wheaton
- Bruce Willis
- Leonard Cohen
I would love to hear your picks!
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
What is a home...
Originally posted on Live Journal: Suburban Eschatology Part Two (March 18, 8:12 PM)
Home… A home is not stuff in a place.
It is not Internet access or Cable TV.
It is not furniture.
It is not a pool or a fireplace.
It is not movies.
It is not washers and dryers.
It is trust and faith and love.
It is purity of self; mind and body.
It is security, safety and wubbies.
It is love.
Home is love.
Home is where we ask, “Are you OK?” before we ask, “Where were you?”
Home is where we feel bad for others before we feel bad for ourselves.
Home is where we run to, not where we run from.
Home is where the boys cry because they will miss their Nana, not because they do not want to be in their own house.
I first wrote and posted this in December of 2004. I reposted it in October of 2009. I think it is worth posting again now... Not a poem, just a doodle.
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3:58 PM – From SE2 to All 4 Rubble Sites
Success. But I do not like the permalink deal in the automatic crossposting header… Fixed.
4:03 PM – Ping.fm Cross-posting tests…
First issue, Live Writer has “forgotten” my API key…
Second issue, Live.fm has forgotten my e-mail address…And that seems unresolvable at the moment. Fun.
4:15 PM – Ping.fm = Duh, Winning!
Can’t get back into my account there. Pretty sure the error is on their end. No new user email from them either. Even checked my spam on Yahoo. So much for them, for now.
More to test out later. First cleaning up these posts from the other Blogger sites, then a break…
Then checking into the Related Posts feature and then working on templates for my regular posts.
So much for my “do nothing” day! But all of these tools will save me a ton of time in the long run.
4:30 PM – TAG CREATOR APP!!!!!!
Maybe not… clunky and the tool already installed works fine.
Related Posts tool? Failing so far…
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Okay, so that works now. Log in issue (mine)…
4:40 PM
Getting a strange error message, but it appears to be from the delicious.com auto posting tool thingy, the last update went onto Blogger just fine…
Of course, now I am having a strange formatting issue. Notice? No, you don’t. I used my ninja-strength html powers to fix it!
Break time. For real. And enough of this.
Next chore… Adding posts to delicious.com.
Friday, November 11, 2011
11 11 11
Mine goes to 11 11 11 | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine:
Geeks across teh intertubez are giddy with delight today. Why? Because it’s November 11, 2011, of course! And if you’re in the US, you’d write this as 11/11/11, so of course this tickles the heart of any true mathematically-inclined nerd such as me. now, in the US we put the month first — MM/DD/YY — which is somewhat silly; in England and other realms they write it more logically with the units getting bigger left-to-right, so for them it’s DD/MM/YY, or, contrary to us yanks, 11/11/11.
OK, so anyway, it’s all ones. Why is that cool?
11/11/11 Is "Nerd New Year" -- Here's How to Turn it Up to 11:
Nerds and numerologists get ready: the last binary date of the 21st century is approaching.
Friday is 11/11/11 — a highly significant date if you believe in the power of numbers. No doubt thousands of us will see the preponderance of ones as a good time to turn over a new leaf — start that new diet or exercise routine, perhaps. There is some logic to this: as a memorable date, it makes it easy to celebrate your profound change of direction in years to come.
Friday is also Veteran’s Day, of course, and thus imbued with solemn significance. The First World War ground to a halt at 11 a.m. local time on the 11th of November 1918. This, then, will be the first time the world has ever gathered to remember the fallen at a time when every last number on the clock — including the two-digit year — is 11.
But it’s also a date to celebrate, at least for programmers who think in binary code. One group of hackers has dubbed it “Nerd New Year.”
'via Blog this'
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Suburban Alligators: That has got to be a sign of something
| From 2011-09 (Sep) |
'The Reptile Man' captures alligator in Gresham pond | OregonLive.com:
After an alligator had been swimming in a Gresham pond for at least three days, "The Reptile Man" took matters into his own hands. Richard Ritchey, a herpetologist from Colton, jumped into the pond Sunday and captured the creature.
"He seemed a bit irritated from all the attention he had received over the past couple days," Ritchey wrote on his website. A fight ensued, he claims, with "rolling, snapping and hissing," but he was able to pull the gator out of the pond and take him home.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
But where are the sexy pirates? Hottest Halloween Costumes of 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hottest Halloween Costumes of 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]:
You came to the right place. Find out what’s hot and what’s not by checking out the spooky stats on our Halloween infographic from Webtrends, showing you which costumes and candy garnered the most buzz.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Severe weather alert? Really?
| From 000-FB Photo of the Day |
Yahoo and the Weather Channel posted this as a Severe Weather Alert. Okay, I get the mountain climbing thing here, but thank God they warned us about the "breezy" conditions out at the coast... A closer look reveals that the National Weather Service issued this statement as a "Special Weather Statement." That makes more sense.
From the National Weather Service...
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
513 AM PDT SUN OCT 2 2011
ORZ001>014-WAZ019>023-039-040-022300-
NORTH OREGON COAST-CENTRAL OREGON COAST-
COAST RANGE OF NORTHWEST OREGON-
CENTRAL COAST RANGE OF WESTERN OREGON-LOWER COLUMBIA-
GREATER PORTLAND METRO AREA-CENTRAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY-
SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY-WESTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE-
NORTHERN OREGON CASCADE FOOTHILLS-NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES-
CASCADE FOOTHILLS IN LANE COUNTY-CASCADES IN LANE COUNTY-
UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY-SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES-WILLAPA HILLS-
SOUTH WASHINGTON COAST-I-5 CORRIDOR IN COWLITZ COUNTY-
GREATER VANCOUVER AREA-SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADE FOOTHILLS-
513 AM PDT SUN OCT 2 2011
...TURNING WET AND COOLER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN SOUTHWEST
WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON..
THE CHANGE TO A COOLER AND WETTER WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MUCH OF THE COMING WEEK AS A SERIES OF PROGRESSIVELY
STRONGER PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEMS AFFECTS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
THIS WILL BRING MORE CLOUDS...RAIN AND COOL TEMPERATURES TO THE
REGION.
A STRONG EARLY FALL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE COAST LATE
TODAY AND MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON
TONIGHT AND MONDAY. ANOTHER STRONGER FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH TUESDAY
NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
LOOK FOR RAIN...WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS AT TIMES NEAR THE COAST...AND
TEMPERATURES BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS. SNOW LEVELS IN THE CASCADES
WILL INITIALLY BE AROUND 8000 FEET...BUT LIKELY FALL TO BETWEEN 5000
AND 6000 FEET IN THE CASCADES WEDNESDAY.
THE DOWNTURN IN THE WEATHER WILL GREATLY AFFECT THOSE WITH OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES PLANNED...AS WELL AS MAKE CLIMBING MOUNTAIN PEAKS IN
THE AREA VERY DANGEROUS.
BE SURE TO LISTEN TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER NEWS SOURCE OR THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST UPDATES TO THIS DOWNTURN IN
THE WEATHER THIS WEEK.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Kindness...
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

