How do you not notice a dead body suspended five foot overhead in a tree in your very own yard? How?! Even crazier … how do tree trimmers trimming a tree not notice a dead body is said tree while trimming it? I am astounded that a dead person could hang out in a tree for apparently a year (in balmy Florida) without a single person noticing it, yet that is exactly what seems to have happened.

I may miss some of the finer details of things in my very own yard on a regular basis, but there could be a dead squirrel in one of my bushy trees, and I’d probably notice rather quickly. I am dead certain I would notice a dead human body in one of my trees, and I wouldn’t have to smell it either. More people need to look around and pay attention to the details that are at least as large as a dead human body. That’s a pretty big detail to miss.

Every so often, you run across a story in the news about something really, really weird. This time it’s about loud booms and bright lights in Pikesville, Maryland. Though the headline indicates they are closer to an explanation, they aren’t. They have eliminated just about every one of the easy possibilities, and that leaves them not really knowing what’s causing it. It’s really, really weird. I suggest you watch the video. Yeah … weird.

One of the things that has been keeping me busy and not posting and ranting as much as usual is that I am working on a story. I’ve been working on it in my head for a while, and now I am finally beginning to put it down in text. In a strange turn of events for me, it’s going to be light science fiction. It’s really rough at the moment, but so far, I am happy with it.

I do have a question for the fiction readers out there. What is your favorite story point of view? Do you like things to be written from a single character’s point of view? Or do you prefer third person, a narrator that knows everything about everyone (or at least one character)? Or something different? I prefer writing in third person omniscient, and that’s also the point of view I seem to prefer reading (though some of my most favorite books are in first person oddly). I was just wondering. Right now, I haven’t exactly settled on a point of view. It could go a variety of ways … I think.

Anyway, that’s one of the things I have been up to: writing. Maybe something will come of it this time.

“They should all just wear pastels and get over it. WE ARE THE STEPFORD WIVES.”
– Lin

I love windmills. Old ones. New ones. Windmills of all sorts. I find them beautiful and relaxing to watch.

I don’t have time to say anything else, but I just thought you should know that.