October, 2016 - So far this year has been a busy one. First the Happy News: Cathi's daughter, Erin, married her high school sweetheart on September 4th.
- Spring, 2016 - Jim's mother passed away in April. We made a trip down to Connecticut in May to Celibrate her life - That trip turned out to be hectic, but more positive than we expected. 'Gramma Dot' was a very big hearted woman, who was universally loved and attracted a lot of very good friends.
- August, 2016 - Jim had his DNA tested through ancestry.ca and got his results: 33% Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland) / 28% Scandinavia (Sweden) / 17% Western European (French & Dutch) / + 15% Ireland // Trace Regions: 5% Iberian Peninsula (Celts called the region Lusitania, almost everybody with Irish ancestry has some Iberian connection) / Less Than 1% Italy & Greece (We'll have to look into that-) / & 1% Caucasus Region of Western Asia. // We didn't find any Native Amercan/First Nations markers - Jim grew up believing he was 1/32nd Native American :( "What do you mean 'We' kimo Sabbie?"
January, 2015 - I should upload photos of the deer that our neighbour feeds all winter. There's an all-white female and her white and brown offspring. I forgot the scientific name for that, but our neighbour did say they were not albinos.
In 2014 - After moving from Ontario to New Brunswick in September of 2013 - We found the job market here, um, 'absent'? - I did hook up with Doug Otterson in Ithaca, New York and we began trying to do some daily news blogging. We publish "News & Headlines" as often as possible and post these at a number of sites, including: "Independent Canadian News" - "Radio Free Earth News" - "Inter World News" & Often Copy & Paste that news over to "Child of Light" - "Cosmic Psy-Cography" - "Archives" - & sometimes even "The Hyper-Vigilant Dust Bin".
March, 2014 - Mom and my sister Sharon were visiting New England again, this time I got to see them, and Cousin Debi from Colorado at the same time, while they were in Vermont for a couple days. I saw them in Keene, New Hampshire which was convenient for my friend Greg Morse, his friend, Ann, - and long time friend Christine Kantrowitz Aunt Reggie and cousin Danny were there and Danny's significant other, Marty Gallagher (I think her last name is still Gallagher) were also there. I almost forgot my nephew, Charles McCauley, who came from Alaska with Sharon -his mother- and Mom - his grandmother. Confused? Then my job here is done -ß
September, 2013 - The photo of the Dragon Hedge (3rd down on the left) was taken on Highland Avenue in Stratford, Connecticut around the year 2000. I have since been told that Guardian Angels frequently disguise themselves as Spiritual Dragons to protect the innocent.
March, 2012- Moe was still yawning (4th Photo Down on the Left), and, um, the world was probably still turning-ß
-10 March, 2012. Mom and my sister, Sharon, should be in Connecticut (visiting from Alaska) about now. Sad thing is, I probably can't afford to go down and visit them while they're here.
-20 August, 2011. Aerendel- The Game - is in actual production/building. You can monitor our progress at "Aerendel-GDD" (Game Development Documentation) / Also dealing with Firefox deciding we can't live without their latest updates and not trusting even them. How about "You need version 3.6.20" and when you click on their download link the schnarr weasles have you downloading version 6 which (thankfully) won't work on my G4's -
-06 December, 2010. It's been a while since I've updated this page- That's not because I've died of boredome. Lots of things are happening, many of them on the 'not very positive' side. Oil companies are still defrauding people out of their money every minute of every day. The 'Leaders' of the 'Free World' are still trying to herd us into hell as quickly as we're trying to race toward establishing Heaven on Earth... At times I feel like it isn't my place to bore you with the details, but then again-
- July 14, 2010. Let's see, the girl (now a young woman) has done her first year of post secondary education in Pembroke and transferred to the University of Western Ontario, where she was able to get credit for most of the courses she took in Pembroke (University of Ottawa at the Algonquin Campus in Pembroke). The boy graduated grade 8 with prizes for Math and Science, and a bigger prize for overall best achievement by a male student. He will now move on to High School. 2010 has been really rough for me, but it wasn't the boy's problems this time. Mom tripped over a dog in Alaska and may now be blind in her right eye. She was pretty depressed for a while, didn't have an appetite at all. Nancy (my sister) went to see her for a short time and got her spirits raised enough so we have our old Gramma Dot back.
On the WPKN side of things, The policy changes under the new regime have led to them letting a long island group take over their WPKM side of things, including the spot on the broadcast tower at Montauk. And Samba (One of WPKN's Haitian programmers) died unexpectedly in June. (Sad face goes here.)
-February 7, 2009. Indigo Starcrystal Communications is now a registered business in the province of Ontario. We had a group hug to make it official. Moe has been terrorizing me as I have been trying to type this. & I did a bunch of stuff to begin rearranging the living room's computer area to try to unclutter and open up the creative atmosphere, try to give the place a better feel? I will probably always feel like I'm three or four projects behind and running as fast as I can to catch up, but-
I will have to upload the aura photographs we had taken last weekend. And I might have to publish parts of my facebook "25 things about me" schnarr, with a preamble that the person who did a reading on my aura said that I don't have an ego, it's all... eyes toward heaven, "As Thou Wilt- (Not my wilt?....)"
-Decembre 10, 2008. (Glenn's Birthday....) (Wonder how he's doing over there?) Lemme see... Changes, Erin, my step daughter and her father have moved from Mississauga to Ottawa and are close enough so we've seen them and/or swapped kids every weekend (pas de schnarr...) ((haven't swapped kids with Erin, she's in grade 12, still sort of a kid, she's gotten swapped, or borrowed.... imagine trying to explain this to an alien? And will be here for the weekend again while boy goes to Ottawa with his dad. Boy is still under 16 (he's 12 years old) so he's still relatively anonymous here.
-August 26, 2008. It looks like we just might survive the summer. We might not have to worry about radiation from cell phones interfering with our brain waves or serotonin production for a while, & I hope the kids realize it isn't our fault they can't text their friends and themselves to death. (schnarr...)
-May 08, 2008. You can now go read Aerendel's Word Press Blog. Sorry if I sound schnarr, I'm friggin exhausted.
(( May 14, 2008, WordPress Blog imbedded into site resident web page.... ))
Jupiter's going retro on us tomorrow, May 9th... (time to expand inward, grow inwardly instead of expanding and growing out into the real world...)
-March 24, 2008
I know I love Ontario, because: Yesterday we stepped outside, into an icy wind and -7°C temperature (19°F) and the wind tasted like the purest, sweetest water I ever drank.
-February 2, 2008
We
drove to Renfrew (the next town 'up' Highway 17
) to go to a -sort of a New Agey "Spirit, Body, and Mind"
Fair. We were looking for an Armoury, and Argyle Street, and never quite got the two 'directions' together, so we stopped and asked in a gas station, and "Well- the armouries are back that way-" "Argyle Street?" "Uh- I better look that up, ....oh, it's right there- [she pointed across the street] go left and then left again, it's parallel to this street."
We found it. We were greeted at the door by somebody we had met at a Parents Support Group, she actually had a book she had borrowed and gave it back to Cathi and Cathi had a CD or DVD to give to her-
It is really hard to nail down an easy description of what was there. It wasn't a flashy, big city kind of Exposition, not a home show full of dazzling consumer products and spokes models posing beside hot tubs... no, There were a couple dozen almost flea market tables and areas set up with people displaying books and posters and tables full of aromatic essenses and healing aromas and herbal supplements. There were at least three different kind of Reiki healers and Tarot readers and Angel card readers and people talking about convergence and raising awareness, clearing your chakras and getting ready for multi-dimensional living.
We were handed a bag full of goodies and walked around smiling at people with stars in their eyes and a lot of "main stream people think we're weird, but you look like you probably understand-" hopeful expressions.
We walked around, we looked at book covers, we drew cards and were read descriptions of what the cards we drew meant and we smiled and looked back at people who hoped we had some sort of clue as to what their reading meant, and how we might apply that to our lives, "Ah- you drew the Unicorn Card! That's significant- You are healing your inner child and broadening your world view-" And Cathi drew the Bear Card and the boy drew the Griffon Card. and we listened to what that meant and wandered on to the next table. The boy walked a labyrinth, laid out on the floor with black duct tape. I was worried that he should have asked the labyrinth's guardian permission first, but no;- she was delighted that he went slowly through the maze wearing his big snow boots and then stopped in the middle, turned around and slowly walked back out, following all the twists and turns (he later told us he saw bars of red and green colours and 'white rain' in the air as he walked around, inside the lines on the floor.)
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Above is a screen capture from the game we've been building online with the hero engine on the 'cloud'. This would be one of the 'little guys'/ Ottarians. Doug liked the way the Ottarians came out enough to use one as his 'Gravatar' at his "Radio Free Earth News" site. |