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There's a unique feeling when you're alone on the road. You look in your rearview mirror; Nothing. You strain your eyes forward; no movement breaks the shimmering mirage thar warps the horizon.
Something inside you changes. Deep in your gut the faintest tickle of unease stirs. The hairs on the back of your neck are primed to rise up at any stimulus at all. you're alone, more alone, somehow, behind the wheel, than if you were afoot.
You switch off the radio. Something about the music ...

How many people prepare for the hard times?
I do. I always have. I think I understand why:

I was raised that way. I absorbed the idea that part of being a man was being ready. If a blizzard moved in for a few days, if the power went down for several days, if you lost your income for months, you were supposed to be able to eat and feed and protect youself and your own, as well as being ready to reach out to those who were in over their heads.
I remember clearly (I was a teenager) ...

Today I asked for some snow and received some. It has been snowing steadily since mid-afternoon after a mere teasing of scattered flurries since this morning. It's beautiful outside this evening. The snow resembles the silky softness of a dusting of powdered sugar on an as yet untouched cake. I feel safe and warm in my cocoon and am enjoying the pleasure of my own solitude and being. It's during quiet and deeply reflective moments such as these that I feel most alive. Ironic: snow covers, muffles, ...

(I love debating things with people who have the background and interest to hold my attention. That's one reason I decided to hang our here for a while.
Sad to say, some people don't know what they don't know. Be thankful if you aren't related to anybody like that.)

I find myself surrounded by morons. Everything they say is infantile and foolish, but my mind is so mired in the bog that I can't elucidate why they are all so stupid, or what it is that they are wrong about. I ...

(I wrote this when I was at the lowest point of my depression, just before I started my long road back from the edge.)

I'm keeping the door shut, not that it matters. I haven't bothered to lock it. Why should I? The fog cannot unlock doors; it doesn't need to. No. The fog creeps 'round the edges, through the keyhole, and under the sill.

No matter what skills I possess, I cannot stop the fog completely. By great and exhausting attention I can keep almost all of it out, ...

Why is it that it is bad to be accused of behaving irrationally, but you get in trouble if you try to rationalize behavior? Just a thought...

Hello;

I've found that Blog's are used by different people for widely varying reasons.

My reasons are simple.

1. I tend toward depression, and writing helps me keep it at bay, especially if I think someone might read it.

2. I'm an Arrogant Egotist. I'm constantly impressing myself with how clever I am. (Hey, there are LOTS of us, I'm just one of the few that will admit it!)



3. I just feel like some of you will feel the ...

The best video in my opinion about the decisive battle in Reconquista VS the Islam. Las Navas de Tolosa.
(In castilian, but quite descriptive of the moments of the battle).



EUROPEAN FORCES (70.000 to 100.000):

Castilians, the soul of the army,

50.000.

Portuguese, Navarres and Aragonese,

20.000

French, (with massive retreats, although)

30.000

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And the legendary Órdenes Militares (military Orders):

Orden ...

Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the host.

The harm and benefit in parasitic interactions concern the biological fitness of the organisms involved. Parasites reduce host fitness in many ways, ranging from general or specialized pathology to the modification of host behaviour.

Parasites increase their fitness by exploiting hosts for food, habitat and dispersal. ...

Hello mostly testing out this blog feature as I don't normally bother with such, though that could change. :D:thumb001: