Solomon's Muse

Just more or less random meanderings of an ordinary starseed mind who happens to share memories with King Solomon as well as a few others from history - without actually _being_ any of these people, I mean. The muse that walked with them also walks with me, and when she tells me their stories, I feel as if I am there. So yes, I recount the memories as though they are my own. But let it be clear, they are not.

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Nothing changed #Pleasantville more than when the first grave had been dug. Not the appearance of color, not the awareness of choice and option - nothing. It wasn't until Death, itself had descended upon the formerly idealistic realm, until the first tear had been shed for one who had been lost to time, that the citizens of Pleasantville realized just what benefits there be within their long-gone black-and-white.

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My fair lady.

She was the queen of her realm, I was the king of mine. Together we made beautiful music. The Minoans would have loved her, but they were a bit before her time.

I miss her to this day.

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Just trying to get the hang of doing art via mouse (lord, how I miss my tablet...). Done via GIMP, still a work in progress of course. :-)

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Why SETI should monitor the great voids of the cosmos

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  You might already suspect this, but the cosmos is full of vessels and probes of various sorts from civilizations which ceased to exist long, long ago. Most of these tend to accumulate in the great voids of the cosmos (those enormous pockets of emptiness which separate most galaxies from one another).

It's not just that they make it there and then take so much time passing through them, that that's where most of them end up being at any given moment - though that does play a small factor. The biggest factor is that in these vast expanses of nothingness, it takes so little gravity for one thing to become attracted to another, that these wayward probes et al end up drawing towards one another, and most often move towards the centers of these voids.

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So in the center of most transgalactic voids, there will be "debris clouds", filled not only with debris left over from assorted natural cosmic events, but also of probes, satellites and even occupied craft (though the occupants are most often long-since deceased). The dynamics of angular momentum in such micrograv environments tends to keep things in orbit around one another rather than plummeting straight to their doom. So most of these things are still there, or are at least in sufficiently adequate condition to be recognizable.

In the world of intercosmic existence, these debris fields tend to draw the same type of being who on Terra is drawn to diving for lost treasure or other shipwrecks. There is usually nothing much of technological value, as any technology worth having is -usually- capable of avoiding the fate of getting stuck in perpetual transgalactic darkness. Still, there are often some pretty interesting cultural and artistic treasures to be found, and plenty of stories of tragedy and drama to be uncovered.

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It's very fertile ground for the intercosmic arts, because so many more civilizations end up having debris caught up in these gravitational tidepools than ever actually manage to evolve efficient intercosmic travel. Some of the most interesting and compelling stories come from those worlds that never made it.

In any case, my point is this, and it has to do with SETI: Dense planetary populations are not the only good place to search for signals. Focusing on the centers of transgalactic voids may well yield signals that have been in transit for a long, long time. They won't very likely be signals of anyone who's still there to hear a response, but they'll be "something" - and deciphering them can be very educational.

Peace,

Solomon

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Human experimentation on other terrestrial creatures

One day, you may end up creating something you regret. We did. We created you.

It's not that you're so horrible, it's that what was done to you was so far against your nature - your existence has been hell compared to what it would've been had we simply left you to your own natural evolution. You've come to know things you haven't the capacity to handle, and it's our fault.

Don't become us. Leave the other creatures of your world alone.

...says the old man to the brick wall.  :-\

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"Fermi's Paradox" and "The Great Filter"

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  Within the annals of the philosophy of exobiology, there exists an axiom intended to try figuring out why we still seem to be alone – why we don't see any obvious signs of intelligent life all over the place. The question itself is commonly referred to as “Fermi's Paradox”, but the particular axiom to which I refer is called, “The Great Filter”.

Naturally, "Fermi's Paradox" itself is controversial in some circles, as no small number of people around the planet believe we have been visited by extraterrestrials, their presence both then and now has been visible and some of us are just too stubborn to admit it. But that's another discussion entirely, because whatever the truth of that situation is, it's pretty undeniable that "intelligent life" doesn't appear to show up all over the place. If there is intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting Earth, it doesn't appear to be common enough to be undeniably obvious in the mainstream media et al - for that kind of concealment, they would have to be working together, something which would seem unlikely if there were a plethora of species circulating all over the place as one might expect if the cosmos were literally teeming with intelligent, space-faring life. So "The Great Filter" still seems to be a necessary evil even among UFO believers and ET buffs.

You can read about "The Great Filter" here, and "Fermi's Paradox" here (Wikipedia articles), but in brief it's an hypothetical “phenomenon” (whatever its true nature may be) believed to cause most civilizations to become extinct before reaching the level of technology needed to venture effectively to the stars. Perhaps it's a war, plague, some civilization-destroying super-race doing pre-emptive exterminations – any number of possible candidates exist for what “The Great Filter” might possibly be.

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Of course it isn't unreasonable to conclude that if there is a “Great Filter” effect at play in the cosmos, it's probably multi-threaded – i.e., many different things can easily contribute to the extinction of an emerging civilization (as humanity has come to realize). The most commonly-held theory is, of course, the dreaded “Zombie Apocalypse” which seems to be increasingly inevitible as Hollywood et al continue having their wicked, wicked ways with the scientific prognostication of humanity's fate.

Just kidding – checking to see if you're still paying attention. ;-)

Anywho... I tend to refer to this phenomenon as the “Filter Factor” - i.e., the total sum of all existent factors in a given civilization with any meaningfully significant probability of creating an extinction-level chain of events. Biological warfare, for instance, or industrial pollution. On a scale of “0” being “No risk factors” to “10” being “Imminent extinction”, I would rate humanity at about a 5 or a 6 right now. That might sound like “not too shabby” odds, but trust me – all it means is that humanity may survive from this point forward, but she's destined by now to be at least a little banged up by the time they regain their proper footing. So it's not a good thing by any stretch.

Humanity is actually about to enter into the worst odds of their entire existence. If humanity survives the next 100-200 years or so, it should be fine after that – but it's gonna' have the hurtin' put to it no matter what course things may take.

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The increased danger is perhaps the most common cause of extinction for societies which have survived their industrial pollution phase (it still exists, but is no longer potent enough to be the most serious threat to your existence) – that of “common knowledge” slowly coming to include increasingly powerful and dangerous things, and many of these powerful and dangerous things becoming increasingly accessible to the common man. Ergo, you have common, ordinary people slowly being granted the ability to do increasingly potent, dangerous and non-ordinary things. At the height of this phase of The Great Filter, conditions essentially come to exist where just about any individual can obtain a weapon as potent as the Tzarina bomb – and that's just on the low-end of the power spectrum.

Given that the “common, ordinary population” of humanity includes no small number of deluded and insane individuals, this is definitely going to be humanity's biggest challenge. It's one reason humanity should be putting no small amount of “hurry up already!” into their efforts to establish colonies offworld. That is the one behavior in an emerging technorati that most often enables it to survive near-anihilation by such insanely easy access to such power. Virtually no species who experiences a serious attack from one of their own in possession of such weaponry and who has no meaningful presence offworld ever manages to survive. By staying so stubbornly transfixed to the surface of Earth, humanity is setting itself up for failure.

And yet, any species to succeed to an advanced stage had once faced the same problems as these, so it's no unusual thing. All are put to the fire, none make it through unscathed.

Good luck, and peace. :-)

Sol

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Subspace scattering - "temporal 'space weather'"

This post is to expand on another recent post regarding techniques of astronomical observation geared towards unveiling "hyperspace"/"subspace" (you can find that article here). In brief, it advises you to take astronomical observations and align them according to your best calculations with the date the observation was actually generated by the object being observed, not the date that the observation was made. This will uncover patterns of activity indicative of assorted "faster-than-light" phenomenon, a necessary precursor for the investigation and development of ftl technology such as wormholes, stargates and the various types of FTL drive.

Aside from uncovering region-wide fluctuations indicative of sub/hyperspace events of a ftl nature, further analysis will uncover still more fluctuations within these events, varying from region-to-region, indicative of larger, more "emergent" phenomenon.

The realm in which these events occur is not part of the ordinary, subluminal world in which exists most of the things we can sense directly. Whether one wishes to call it "hyperspace" -or- "subspace" is really a matter of preference more than anything - it's "hyperspace" in that it extends into a 4th dimensional direction, but "subspace" in that it is a "smaller" region of space right "beneath" ours (travel within it takes you farther than travel through our own space). From hereon out, I'm going to refer to it as "hyperspace", as it's a specific region to which I refer. I'll reserve "sub-space" for other areas of non-ordinary space in general, including but not limited to what I've dubbed "hyperspace" in this post.

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Upon proper analysis of the data, one of the first things you'll begin to uncover are asynchronous "regions" of temporal activity - i.e., that different regions of space experience the flow of what's called "time" at different rates. Furthermore, you'll begin to uncover an entirely new class of "space 'weather'" in that you'll find these regions to drift and move about through the underlying fabric of space in pretty much the same manner as enormous clouds of vapor and other gasses moving through a larger atmosphere.

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These regions aren't just "cloud-like", they are clouds. Just a different kind. Hyperspace exists just above subluminal or "ordinary" space. The vapor of both matter and energy rises into hyperspace and moves about just like clouds of water vapor move through Terra's atmosphere. There are even phenomenon which are exact analogues to rain, lightening/thunder - the whole schpiel, though some in ways you might not immediately recognize them as such.

Hopefully, this can all give you some clues as to where and how to look for the phenomenon indicated in this and the prior post. As always, please don't hesitate to ask questions (either here or privately if you prefer), and I'll be glad to answer whatever I'm able. :-)

Peace, Solomon

Related articles

Poonen-Rains and lines on a quadric surface (quomodocumque.wordpress.com)

Poonen-Rains, Selmer groups, random maximal isotropics, random orthogonal matrices (quomodocumque.wordpress.com)

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A response for starseeds (et al) about "helping" humanity

The reason it takes so many years to transform a species like humanity is because you don't transform them - you point a viable path out to them, and they either take it or they don't. Sometimes even when they don't take it, they find their own way and it turns out to work wonderfully for them - but the key is that -they- must find it. They must figure things out for themselves. All we can do is stand there and point - they first must understand what we're saying, and then they must decide to follow it or find something better.

That can take a long, long time. But some things are worth it, and I believe they are. I have always believed so - they are beautiful. :-)

Peace, Sol

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The Test

For all technorati, there comes a time when they are put to the test. In some views, this has been referred to as a "tribulation", but the truth of it is not quite so biblical. "The Tribulation" as detailed in the Bible and related texts is an accounting of the history of the prior version of human society when it reached its end. The Tribulation to Come is a bit different, though no less potentially severe. The severity of any given tribulation is dependent upon the technorati being tested, and nothing else. In essence, you get to decide your own fate. Assorted conditions are influenced in assorted ways, and how you respond to them determines the course they take. The grandest measure of the mettle of a species in determining its readiness to face intercosmic existence is that of altruism, or the tendency to self-sacrifice in the face of enormous odds in order that others may survive. Most of the time, it has been noted with not only humanity but also with virtually every other emerging technorati to emerge, a species becomes what humans refer to as "dog-eat-dog" when the going begins getting particularly rough. In particular, species tend to resort to this type of animalistic behavior when it becomes clear that some will live, some will die, and "only the strong survive" as a rule begins to kick in and influence individual behavior.

Even in technorati which "pass" this challenge, the metaphorical "dog-eat-dog" nature does actually kick in with the majority of individuals. A species usually is very ravaged and decimated by the time the challenge has passed. What qualifies them as "passing" is simply making it through the conditions without going extinct, and virtually all species who manage to do this have a relatively high percentage of altruistic individuals - i.e., individuals who are willing to be self-sacrificing even in resistance to the "dog-eat-dog" survival instincts that even such individuals are undeniably subjected to. This amounts to the kind of person who would've remained behind on the Titanic, knowing their fate, so that someone else might have what would've been their seat. Altruism isn't entirely about self-sacrifice - a sacrifice is no sacrifice at all if it leads to the same result. When deciding what to sacrifice one's self for, one must try to avoid being self-sacrificing for any old person, place or thing at all. There -should- be at least a little bit of rationality to it. You know what I mean, but it might not be easy to think of - I'm referring to the viability of the individuals involved to successfully survive the conditions being experienced. This would be like the group of people on the sinking lifeboat in the middle of the ocean - you wouldn't want to throw the young children overboard if it came down to it, you would want to throw those over who are too weak to survive, or too old to have a chance at making as much of a beneficial difference once the ordeal is over. Ideally, the weak or very old would voluntarily throw themselves into the waters. Possibly, particularly if there is a concern for sharks or other predatory animals, one might even consider offering them a quick death prior to the act so they don't suffer - but that's a separate issue. Humanity is about to be put to its paces in this regard. It's possible that humanity will react so well at the early stages of the crisis that no major loss of life will result - some species do. Humanity certainly has the ingenuity for it - but they are fairly well-laden with impulsive, habitual responses that are quite likely to render their ingenuity inert. Only time will tell. Good luck to us all, myself included as I am here, and am in no way, shape or form exempt from the trials ahead. Related articles

Mental Evolution and the Freedom to Change (psychologytoday.com)

New research finds altruism and cooperation among humans may have emerged from prehistoric warfare (cogsciblog.wordpress.com)

Altruistic Chimpanzees Documented For First Time In Captivity (treehugger.com)

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Practicing "Abilities" even if you can't actually use them yet.

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In my most recent post about "abilities", I'd explained a little about how at some point, human "supernatural" abilities (derivatives of our electromagnetic fields) would soon be unsupressed - that we would be able to use them to an increasing extent as we eased ourselves into a state of nonvolatile equilibrium with both our access to these abilities and the rest of the cosmos.

One may wonder how we'll know what to do. By and large, we just "will", that's all there will be to it. It might take a bit of practice to get over an initial "awkward" phase, but there is something you can do now to start practicing these abilities and to give yourself a head-start when they become accessible (assuming that they will in your lifetime).

It's simply "visualization". It's a proven fact that athletes can improve their very real-world skills by practicing them mentally. Any ability can be improved by internal practice, even abilities you can't currently access. It isn't difficult at all to visualize how something "feels" to the mind - you can imagine its weight, its state of momentum - all sorts of aspects to it as you see fit. This imagination is actually how you -really- reach out to something and sense it with your mind. The access to doing this real-world is part of what's being opressed (primarily, in fact - once you can do that kind of mental connecting for real, and completely, you've "done it", and can begin using your abilities without restriction), but you can still do it in your imagination. If you try doing it with real world objects, it will still strengthen your real-world skill at such a thing even if you're prevented from actual, real-world success at it. So just practice - try "feeling" things around you with your mind, and just keep doing it. The more often you do it, the stronger your actual ability will be when the time arrives.

In fact, people doing just that sort of activity may -just- be what causes the repression of said abilities to slowly ease until eventually, it just fades away. :-)

In any event, you can do this with any such ability. When you reach out to something with your mind, you're likely going to be just connecting with it in your imagination - but this is as good as real practice. At the same time, you can also imagine yourself manipulating the object, which will have similar strengthening effect if/when you become free to use the ability. Just connect with something mentally, and then imagine yourself moving it with your mind - feel the weight as you lift it up, slide it around or what have you. Even if the "real" object doesn't move, your internal representation of it will. The more realistic you make your internal simulation, the better the effect will be.

Such practice is one way to slowly wedge open access to such abilities, though with the restrictions currently in place over humanity en masse, you're likely to never see tangible, "scientifically verifiable" results. You may, of course - but you won't if you never try.

Just a thought. Use this practice to create other effects, too, if you wish - lights, changes in temperature, "moods" - any ability is only strengthened by such practice, and may just make it to the realm of real-world detectability if you're persistent enough. The key is to not feel hopeless, not to "give up" just because you're not strong enough to overcome the mass psychic suppression of the entire human species - few are, after all. Some, however, are "permitted" to slip through the net, so to speak. Maybe you'd be one of these - you'll never know if you don't try. :-)

Peace,

Solomon

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Abilities

For those who identify with the concept of a "starseed" human, there is often a question of "ability". I use the term here somewhat like it was used in the former TV show, "The 4400" - i.e., an "ability" is a talent or skill one possesses which operates in some manner other than purely physical manipulation, but with a physical effect. Telekinesis, for instance.

Many individuals among the starseed population have a sense of such abilities as "waiting" to be triggered, as if at some point in time, they will have access to their non-physical, metaphysical talents. So what's coming, and when will it get here?

I do sense an impending trigger event. As in ages past, I feel this is most likely a return of the extraterrestrial presence in everyday human society - not just dreams or telepathic messages, but experiences that will be part of ordinary life just as much as the stars and the wind, the trees and the creatures of the sea. Encounters that will not cause you to forget them, and that will not mask their presence from the perceptions of others.

Much has been made of the "Mayan calender" - I've mentioned before that this calendar is less of a "prophecy" and more of a "schedule". When the Mayan calender runs out, it -should- bring about a review of humanity's progress by the afore-mentioned "extreterrestrial presence" to see if we're ready to move on to the next level, or if we need another 36,000 years.

If, as I anticipate, humanity is deemed "ready", the supression of non-ordinary abilities and perceptions will cease, and humanity will be able to see the universe as it really is for the first time in a long time.

The supression is electromagnetic in nature, because metaphysical abilities are an emergent property that develops in any species that evolves symbolic thought processes and the ability to think in abstract terms. Humanity is already quite capable in the "metaphysical ability" department, but have been supressed due to the often catastrophic events that tend to happen in a species when they first discover the ability, but before they've evolved philosophically and spiritually enough (i.e., understanding their own primordial nature and being able to control it via logic and reason) to understand why and how to resist the impulse to wreak such havoc.

So yes, abilities will return to the human race. It's just a matter of time.

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Social networking site, "International Starseed Network" (diaryofanalienincarnate.wordpress.com)

Three Videos for Starseeds (readyfortheshift.com)

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Hidden cities in plain sight.

The part of Terra's surface with which humans are familiar is actually a good bit less than what really exists. The Gaia hypothesis (some versions of it, at least) is correct in that life evolves in waves (I would say "cycles" but there is no rhythmic pattern to it), every so often producing a technological species which then goes off to leave the rest of the world back to nature, waiting for the next technorati to come along.

Many times, the species withdrawing from the ecosystem in question (not just Terra's) will develop cloaking and camouflaging skills to eliminate the effect of their cities upon the rest of the natural world. The skills so-developed are of sufficiently high degree that even when a new technorati such as humanity comes along, they are oblivious to the existence of such places, thinking the world they can see around them is the only part of it that's "real".

It's the same general principal as wildlife experts use when trying to analyze wildlife in its natural habitate - there's a need to acclimate the natural environment to the bits and pieces of your presence which cannot be hidden. The rest, you attempt to take care of with various "blending-in" techniques. Likewise, humanity and the rest of the natural world have been watched for quite a long time, now, by other technorati to have been spawned during the course of evolution at some point in the distant past.

Note that this isn't some sort of "ascended realm" of which I speak, this is a world of cities which are every bit as physical and real as ours. You just can't see them. Part of the cloaking technology involves keeping the human mind diverted from noticing any of the bits & pieces of "other" presence that cannot be hidden. This is a wave of sorts, and is sometimes heard as a "mystery noise" in various locations where such cities are prevalent. I refer to the "humming" noise that's generally sub-audible but which some individuals can nonetheless hear. I believe one such spot is in or near Sedona, AZ, which is itself smack-dab in the middle of one of these hidden cities to which I refer.

That's really all there is to say about this. Feel free to ask questions if you have any. :-)

Peace,

Solomon

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This is for a question I've got on icehunters.org - it won't upload directly to the forums there, so I have to post it here to get a URL for it to reference it to there. Just ignore if you don't care. ;-)

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Me after all work is finished. :-)

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So odd sometimes to believe I'm really here.

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Given what this era was supposed to mean, and everything that's yet to happen - sometimes it just seems so unreal that I'm actually here, now, in this world with these people going through all this stuff.

My energy centers have really been giving me a run for my money lately. I've been feeling massive arcs of energy from around and within the earth - not as in anything localized around me, but I mean around the entire planet. These arcs interact with all energy fields on the surface, whether living or non-living. Life, however, processes the ebbs and flows somewhat differently.

Life has always been able to manipulate its own energy field to some degree. But whenever reason becomes involved - well, self-manipulation of one's own energy field can be a dangerous thing when you have a thinking, reasoning mind doing the manipulating. Electric eels, had they the capacity for mathematical thought, would probably be the most truly volatile organisms on the planet, as they excel at exchanging energy directly between themselves and their environment. Of course that's a slightly more "base" kind of energy, more organic and exclusive to life. But it's very much related to the energy described above. It's an offshoot of it, I suppose one could say.

In any event, the human ability to manipulate their own energy field with their mind has been stifled for quite some time. Not supressed entirely, just "contained", more or less. These arcs I'm talking about are the initial stages of the unbinding of that containment.

Slowly, surely, humanity is acquiring the ability to engage their own power centers. They have no idea what potential they have. Not yet.

I believe it will be good for them, I have faith that though they may stagger and stumble at first, they will ultimately end up travelling a path that leads to the future they've often dreamed of.

That's all for now. Just pay attention to the "feel" of the air around you. It's almost like the feeling of static electricity, a taste of copper, something like you're about to be struck by lightening - all of those feelings, yet a bit deeper and more subtle. When they come upon you suddenly, it feels as if your skin has become electrically charged - that's what it feels like, though a much more pleasant version of the sensation. Pleasant - though sometimes a bit uncomfortable. Sometimes it can flow through you and while it doesn't hurt, it's just so much and you feel like you're about to lose your mind.

Yes, you go a little bit crazy when things like this begin hitting the entire population. Starseed and otherkin are the first to notice it, the glummest of the glum and the most stalwart concrete literalists tend to be the last.

When these sensations hit, I almost light up afterwards. The afterglow is amazing. ;-) Seriously, it's more intense than a purely physical orgasm - it's kind of the same experience in some ways, but it's not "sexual" anymore. It becomes a more purely "energetic" experience. You lose yourself in passion to the ebbing and flowing of the energy that surrounds you, most often coming from Earth, itself.

Let's just say that if I had to choose between having sex again OR experiencing this again, I'd go for this, no contest. :-)

That's all for now. Peace. :-)

Solomon

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Another venue for starseed musings...

I rather like how this tumblr thing seems to work, so I'm going to use it for a little bit of this, a little bit of that...

I haven't decided what all to post here separate from my primary blog ("Diary of an Alien Incarnate" which can be read either at diaryofanalienincarnate.blogspot.com or diaryofanalienincarnate.wordpress.com ).

Just dipping in the toes, getting the feed wet. :-)