Dear Everyone, We are well. How are you? There are many things to do at Camp Accokeek, I've enclosed pictures of all the fun times we're having. Can't wait for school to start so I can show off my new Michael Jackson Thriller jacket. Anywho, here are the activities we're been participating in. Bridge Building for Beginners With the swale both functionally and aesthetically situated, we were faced with the obvious question, "How does one safely cross such a swale?" Why, I hadn't been faced with such a concave crevasse-ian conundrum since high school where my friend Wyatt and I confronted Map 24 of Doom II "The Chasm" (which we drolly referred to as The Chas-m, using an ecclesiastical 'ch' pronunciation, due to Wyatt's eldest brother being named Chas. We were virgins.). Fortunately in the time it took me to formulate such a needless remembrance, we were the fortunate recipients of two build-it-yourself cedar bridges from Brie's ...
Erragal pulled out the mooring poles, forth went Ninurta and made the dikes overflow. The land shattered like a pot. All day long the South Wind blew, blowing fast, submerging the mountain in water, overwhelming the people like an attack. No one could see his fellow, they could not recognize each other in the torrent. The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall. Ishtar shrieked like a woman in childbirth. Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land. When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding, the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman writhing in labor. Tablet XI - The Story of the Flood The Epic of Gilgamesh (Kovacs Translation) *** Did I just open a post from a smart alec renovation blog with a selection from the Epic of Gilgamesh? Absolutely. Also the website I sourced it from had a header written in Comic Sans....
Content Warning: Frank discussions on finances and mental health One of the best lessons a friend and mentor (to whom I no longer speak) taught me as I began producing theater and eventually directing my own plays was that in the field of projects there is a firmly defined triangle of needs. This differs from Maslow's Hierarchy , which has its own key applications in the creation of art. This is Pick Two of sorts where no matter how hard you try, you can never attain the third choice. The real test of mastery here is giving oneself over to the realities of the underlying truth. To expect a task to be carried out quickly and with quality and then to decide that it can be achieved for lesser cost as well, is to unwittingly remove quality or efficiency from the process regardless of personal whim. So give yourself over to this truth, allow it to permeate your decision making and you'll reduce the number of rework back loops in your way. Of course when designing a house from the g...
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