Apt142’s Blog

I’m a big fan of myths, fables and quotes. I think that the lessons provided by them are to our educations like a good season is to a meal.
One of my favorite stories myths is the story of Icarus. If you don’t know the story, you should read it. (link […]

I recently read/re-read the book Flowers for Algernon. I remember reading a short story of it in school a long time ago. I liked it quite a bit then. However, the short story didn’t delve into quite the number of complexities as the book.
For those that haven’t read it… Flowers for […]

For a long time, my hobby was running a role playing game. I say ‘was’ only because I no longer have a group or time to run one. A result of this is that I came up with a lot of story ideas and plot devices. One of those never got to […]

I wrote earlier about Star Pirates. At the end of that blog post, I had a little doodle that showed what the Duct Tape with Rockets would look like. For a reminder, here it is:

I think I did a fairly good job of describing it on paper as a doodle. And I […]

June
The day had been a long one. It was the sort of work day one stares at a clock in an attempt to will it to move faster. It was over now. Thankfully over. All Charles wanted to do was grab some dinner and poop out on the couch with […]