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Lord God, Creator of All, caught thousands of Sumerian farmers and mathematicians somewhat off guard.

Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.

According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."
"Everything is here already," the pictograph continues. "We do not need more stars."
Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses returned to the city of Eridu, a bustling metropolis built 1,500 years before God called for the appearance of dry land, to discuss the new development. According to records, Sumerian farmers, priests, and civic administrators were not only befuddled, but also took issue with the face of God moving across the water, saying that He scared away those who were traveling to Mesopotamia to participate in their vast and intricate trade system.
Moreover, the Sumerians were taken aback by the creation of the same animals and herb-yielding seeds that they had been domesticating and cultivating for hundreds of generations.
"The Sumerian people must have found God's making of heaven and earth in the middle of their well-established society to be more of an annoyance than anything else," said Paul Helund, ancient history professor at Cornell University. "If what the pictographs indicate are true, His loud voice interrupted their ancient prayer rituals for an entire week."
According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians found God's most puzzling act to be the creation from dust of the first two human beings.
"These two people made in his image do not know how to communicate, lack skills in both mathematics and farming, and have the intellectual capacity of an infant," one Sumerian philosopher wrote. "They must be the creation of a complete idiot."

Dear Internet,

I've spent the holidays at my parent's house in Brentwood. It's a suburban town. Miles and miles of cookie cutter houses. When I grew up here, it was all fields, now it's all strip malls.

It's been wonderful seeing my family, and my friends in the area have helped me get my thoughts together.

The strangest part about this town is the familiar faces.

I went to a bar with my sister last week, and encountered four people that I knew from high school. I've been there several subsequent times, and every time I run into one or two familiar faces. We talk about how much we've grown up, and what we've experienced in the last few years.

But the eerie parts are the people who have never left the nest. I've run into a dozen familiar faces which are still living in their parent's house, hanging out at the same bars, and doing the same thing that they were doing when I left this corn field town. They walk the streets like specters; distracted husks for the people they wanted to be, trying to find a way to complete unfinished business in the bottom of a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I want the world to be my Jack Daniels.

I haven't made it as far as I would like in the past six years, but I am come a long way. The next six years will be better. I won't settle for less.

Truly,
Kigs

So to start my xmas vacation
way home after getting off work
Rear ended on freeway I'm going fuck no way ill get it repaired before having to leave in the morning
Get out of the car looking at this 85 year old man and his wife and totally smashed front end steam coming out of it raidator fluid on the groud my heart hitting the floor look at my bumpper blink once twice three time. White paint transfer thats it nothing bent or broken. I have one thing to say about ford yes their engines are crappily designed but they sure build very sturdy frams and bumpers. exchange info i drive away other guy waits for the Tow truck bullet one dodge.

Christmas eve 9 am driving to LA feeling like i need a gunner in my passnger seat lobbing maltoves at the other idiots on the road. 6 hours latter home relaxing visiting with mom and kim and my brother yay family.

christmas good times food ext ext
Saturday crazytown kims family comes over making plans to GTFO to see friends at LA Game prepped Charaters printed 2 of them in case they didn't like the Nos 6 rolls around phone call to mom. Grandma had Heart attack on christmas in Hospital needing heart surgery. Mom goes crazier, nope not going any where, shit.

Sunday drive back Mad Max beyond thunderdom style the Semi won and took 4 other cars with it where my bazzoka i swear 7 hours on the road shoot me in the head.

Monday Crash day called into work slept until 11:30 needed my day of rest after my vacation.

Next mission setting up New Years Gather
and the world turns

Dear Internet,

Everyone has loved. Or, at least, has believed that they have loved.

Consider this your opportunity to share that special moment. That singular, incredible moment when you declared your love for one of the other confused creatures on this planet.

This entry is not about me. It is about you. It is a question. Simple, but infinitely complex.

Have you ever loved? You? Truly?

If so, share it. Tell us what lead you to love, and what you experienced. I want to know what you felt, and what caused you to feel that way. Thousands of poets have tried to stick a pin into that word. Here's your chance to define it from your own perspective. If you know someone on your friends list who has something to say, link them to this entry.

What is love?

Share. Leap off the cliff. Connect with your fellow humans.

I anxiously await your viewpoint.

Truly,
Kigs

Dear Internet,

My little brother is a chaos prodigy. He seems calm enough: quiet, demure. At age 4 and the weight of several house cats, he has never been known to scream, draw on walls, throw toys, erupt into tantrums, or smudge creamy foods all over his face, the table, or the cat. All in all, he's a curious and active little boy.

Except for one thing. He was blessed with the incredible ability to take absolutely nothing, and make a mess out of it. He has been quietly hiding under a step ladder in the corner of my room for the past ten minutes, and the room has fallen to shambles around him with seemingly no direct interaction.

First, it was a scrap of paper. I don't remember where it came from, but suddenly it was on my desk. Then, markers and plastic cups began to manifest on every available flat surface. A glowing Avatar McDonalds toy appeared on my table, seemingly of its own volition. Its cheep transparent plastic body and LEDs blinking mockingly at me. I checked behind me to ensure that was little brother was still there, and he was innocently laying on my bed and reading a Power Ranges book.

He's crafty, that one. I'll have to keep an eye on him.

Truly,
~Kigs

Due to a lack of a place to invade
aka we love our friends and understand that every one over the last years has had to do with less and living spaces are smaller and not conductive to parties

Will be Hosting a small Gather New Years, Don't expect the normal craziness that normally accures just kinda of a laid back night with some friends and a couple of shots and a couple of beers to bring in the new year.

In which all that attend must make a new years resoluction to have one party they host for the texan to invade ;p