My Lucid Reality

All Good Things – Good Bye ‘My Lucid Reality’

Claudious — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:09:44 +0000

It’s hard to believe that in not much longer this blog will have been up for a whole year. I know this because I have recently received a notice from my web host letting me know that all good things must either come to an end or evolve. My Lucid Reality has come full circle from [...]

Happy Father’s Day – A Mangled Tribute

Claudious — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:42:50 +0000

Occasionally I like to look at bad poetry, it takes on many forms and we’ve often come to know and love it. This week I want to take a moment to recognise Fathers with a mangled tribute. There is a big difference between being a Father and Fathering a child and with that in mind I [...]

Tucson, First Impressions

Claudious — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:46:34 +0000

I’m not going to promise that this is my last Tucson post, but I do not have any more planned. The trip to get here was a hair raising time that taught me a lot about myself, patience, and enforced the concept that I am the one who decides who the events around me make [...]

Tucson or Bust – Day 3, Return to Arrakis

Claudious — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:49:45 +0000

It’s surreal to watch the desert landscape and remember that I’ve been here before. There is a familiarity to the desolation and that is somewhat comforting. As the miles roll beneath me I contemplate my return. Last time I saw the lights of Phoenix it was as an endentured slave of the military and now [...]

Tucson or Bust – Day 2, Long Day

Claudious — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:34:27 +0000

Day two involved a lot of learning. I learned that a fully loaded budget moving truck will go 383 miles with a full tank of gas and it will go 384 miles with a full tank of gas, but it will not go 385 miles on a full tank of gas. I also learned that [...]

Tucson or Bust – Day 1, A Chance to Enjoy the Scenery

Claudious — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:07:01 +0000

This blog post was nearly titled “the path to patience” the first half of today was spent exhausting what was left of my already broken resolve, I won’t admit to being to old to fill the truck all by myself, but I will admit that had I done that, I would be a much more [...]

Observations / The Benefit of Perspective

Claudious — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:24:06 +0000

The truck is 75% loaded, moving is going… well. I couldn’t be more exhausted. One of the nice things about hard work is it gives you a chance to get the crazy out… the first few hours were spent with mindless ramblings inside my head that had me contemplating looking for a new style in [...]

Tucson or Bust – Day 0

Claudious — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:06:21 +0000

The house is darker than it has ever been, the only sound is the noxious motor sounds of cars passing on the nearby freeway. I don’t love this place, and as I prepare the house for the moving truck I only feel the most brief twinge of loss at seeing it go. I have lived here for [...]

Mangled Poetry – Rhyming Revisited

Claudious — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:09:01 +0000

Occasionally I like to look at bad poetry, it takes on many forms and we’ve often come to know and love it. One of my favorite mangled poem delivery methods is music. Music has a way of capturing your imagination, lifting up your heart and giving you wings that allow you to fly beyond such [...]

Once Upon a Time – Chapter One – A Beginning

Claudious — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:38:09 +0000

Chapter One A Beginning “Time is a river, you’re either the bed, the water, or the leaf. Everyone has to find a way of dealing with it.” Once upon a time there was a young boy who dreamed of adventure. It’s common for most people to dream a little about adventure, but for this boy it consumed [...]