A Trapdoor In The Sun

I took off work today to get most of my stuff moved out of the apartment. A friend will come over this evening to help with the heavy crap - thank God for returned favors. It's going to be an interesting two months. I'm moving in with a friend and his wife who just bought a house in Gahanna and Kim is going to be living with her mom again. There are a few reasons for this... we've both decided we need a break for now. It's not really a splitting up, but just "alone" time. I feel we've come to a point in our relationship where we feel too much like roommates and not enough like a couple. This has nothing to do with the miscarriage - it's been on the books for two months now. Also, this gives us both an opportunity to put a good amount of money into savings rather quickly. The cost of living here in Westerville, coupled with the expensive apartment we are in has made it difficult to save, and created a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle that I simply cannot ...

Lollerskates...

I'm glad to see that some Conservatives are wising up to what the Bush Administration is really DOING about our borders.

I've been thinking about writing this a few weeks now, but really never had the free time to sit down and expound upon the idea. Music creates the soundtrack to our lives. It gives us hope, it feeds our emotions . It connects us. So without further ado, these are the ten albums that most impacted my life. 1. Michael Jackson - Thriller What can't be said about this album. It came out in my early teens and thanks to heavy rotation on MTV, it became the biggest album of the decade. It doesn't matter how cool you think you are now, you know you loved this album. Jackson didn't follow trends, he created them. Remember the parachute pants and red zipper jackets? Remember how all the kids you hung out with were teaching each other how to moonwalk and pop? Yeah, I knew you did. Remarkably, I didn't see the "controversial" Thriller video until a year or two after it was released. I had to sneak over to one of my few friends' house that were lucky enough to ge...

From Immagine in Cornice

I'm at a loss for words right now. Kim had to rush to the doctor this morning because she started spotting. They did an ultrasound and saw nothing. Later she started bleeding a little more heavily and she is showing the sure signs of a miscarriage. We won't know for sure until the blood tests come back on Friday. I don't know how to feel. I am just numb. It's like for once, I felt God was smiling on us. Now I think otherwise. I wonder if he even cares. I wonder if he even exists. Why would he do this if he did? I'm still getting emails from friends and family, congratulating us on our new family member. What a cruel joke. I guess we'll push on and find our way from here...

You are a Social Liberal (68% permissive) and an... Economic Moderate (55% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist (55e/68s) Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

That would be THIS GUY! I just thought I should share with everyone that Kim and I are expecting our first child together next summer. I never thought I would be having another rugrat at the age of 36, but I am very excited and look forward to opening a new chapter in our life. Now, the question is...how do I tell my 12 year old son?

I watch you from the corner of my mind Drifting by like a vapor cloud That I could never capture or take in You leave my words hanging in mid-air Suspended in time and space Like a funny comic thought balloon From somewhere in the Sunday paper Only followed by three conspicious dots For they are unfinished...

Well, I just thought I'd drop a short blog before I run off and grab my morning Starbucks and head on into work. I found out something last night that is going to life changing for me. I won't expound upon that because we are waiting for confirmation. It's almost as if God took all of the cards I was playing with and has reshuffled them. Then pointed his finger at me and in a Nelson Muntz voice said, "Ha ha!". I will explain later. Onward!

I had to replace the tires on my Mazda yesterday. Wow...talk about sticker shock. I ended up paying $517.00, and that was for the bargain basement tires. Atleast I'll feel more comfortable with the thought of taking a road trip now.

Please read this report released by the AMSA about the benefits of implementing a Universal Health Care system in this country. 1 Trillion in savings over 10 years...SIGN ME UP. http://www.amsa.org/uhc/CaseForUHC.pdf

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq White House News Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional ste...

I was listening to this Peter Gabriel song today, and it hit me. Though the song is about experiencing the death of a loved one, the lyrics pinpointed exactly what I've been going through over the past year. Last September, a six year relationship died. It was devastating, probably more so than the divorce I went through when I was younger, mainly because I still loved this person. Our relationship had been experiencing a slow death for months and I refused to believe that eventually it would draw it's final breath. She was unhappy, and began an open affair with a co-worker. Still, I got out the resuscitation paddles and attempted to keep us on life support. Finally, in August, she pulled the plug. I left her the house and moved out on my own, determined to move on. My life was turned upside down and slowly I've worked on rebuilding it. But the grieving process remained... slowly my love for her went away, then the pain of missing her... then all I was left with was anger. ...

I'm sure this movie has been out for a year or so now, but I caught it last night on Starz and was angered by the obvious greed on the part of the automotive and oil industries. My dad's boss, aeronautical pioneer Burt Rutan had one of these EV1's for a while in the early 2000's. He kept dodging the repo' guy from GM...hiding the car in a hanger at work..because he loved it so much. Eventually he had to turn it in when GM threatened to sue. Then it went out to GM's proving grounds in AZ and became scrap to be buried in a landfill. Isn't it odd that such a good idea would be considered so dangerous that the automotive industry would want to bury it from the American people like it never even existed? EV's were introduced in California when the California Air Resources Board had the state law changed to make zero emmissions vehicle sales mandatory in the state, with the percentage of such type vehicles sold required to increase on a yearly basis. Basically...

A friend of mine over on Myspace wrote a blog over the weekend that really got me thinking. She asked, "How do you perceive home?" To elaborate, do you consider the place you live now, where you work, shop, play, and exist as home? Or is it where you were born and raised? Is it with your parents or maybe an ex-lover? Or are you a Jack Kerouac, considering the next town over the hill your home... for now. What is 'home' to you? Home is where the heart is. For the longest time during my mid to late 20's, I always thought of San Luis Obispo, CA as my home. I called it my 'happy place'. I had went to college there along with several of my best friends from high school, and those years molded and shaped my thoughts and beliefs like no other time of my life. When I moved on, I felt tied to SLO; not unlike a surfer is tied to the ocean no matter where he lives. Home to me was walking down Higuera St. during Farmer's Market , or spending the afternoon brows...

I've decided to step back through the wardrobe and into the blogging world once again. There will be a few changes though. In the past, when this blog was called Weapons of Mass Distraction, I feel that I got caught up in the pursuit of readership and attention. I narrowed my writing focus to cover mostly political events and stories. Somehow, I feel I lost myself in the dialogue, thus, I shut the blog down. To be fair, there was also a myriad of personal issues I was going through at the time, so blogging about how evil our government is was not high on my priority list. With Eyes Forward, I want to return to writing. I want to spill my thoughts out on the digital canvas as a jug of freshly made Kool-Aid would be spilled all over your nicely vacuumed Berber carpet. No regrets. No censorship. No apologies. ~Andrew

Not that I've updated it in the past ohhhh 3 months or so... but I'm moving this month and will not be doing any blog work anytime soon. However, feel free to visit my personal page at Myspace. http://myspace.com/chasingdogma Cheers! Andrew

Normally, I do not like to post entire articles on my blog. But this is a very good read..as well as a great viewpoint of what is really going on in Iraq, through the eyes of a soldier. Link - The American Conservative Nation Breaking A soldier discovers that training the Iraqi army is not President Bush’s priority. By Joe W. Guthrie I didn’t grow up with dreams of spreading democracy. I was an all-American kid from a small southern town who went to college on a baseball scholarship and joined the National Guard to earn some extra money. During graduate school, recruiters persuaded me to join the Army through ROTC so that after graduation I would enter as an officer. I bought their pitch and believed our newly elected president when he promised no more nation building. My dad told me, “It’s a great time to join the military. It has done an excellent job of repairing itself after Vietnam.” I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 2002 and, after paratrooper and additional o...