Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Hackers, and the Joy of Migrating Servers
So, I've had hackers all up in my server the last few days. They have kept installing malware and making file changes to my websites I host on my server. And I've been going through and running regular scans and fixing the things they've mucked up. Problem is, they...
The Brain’s Faulty Circuits
TW: frank discussion of suicidal ideation The last few days, possibly even the last couple of weeks, I've struggled with a suicidal ideation right around bedtime. I've written previously about the fact that mental unwellness creeps up on me at the end of the day while...
Leftover Grief
We would have been married 21 years this year. It’s a number that blows my mind, but it’s also one that makes me sad. It’s been eight years since we separated, seven since the divorce was finalized. And I still feel a bit of grief over what might have been. I don’t...
Fiction
Temperance
It is the art of compromise, of giving up part of what you want so you can have most of what you want. You may have an outcome in mind, but sometimes you have to make concessions for a slightly altered outcome. This is Temperance. It says to you, “What will you give...
Death
Death greets you, not with a sickle, but with a rose. It is draped from head to toe in a long, dark robe, and from the hood and sleeves you can see its skeletal visage. "You are about to experience a profound change," it says to you, its voice a monotone. "You are on...
The Hanged Man
You find yourself in the middle of the wilderness. There is nothing around for as far as the eye can see, not even sagebrush, yet there is a gallows standing all alone, and from it hangs a man. Crows sit on his shoulders, picking at his flesh, little gobbets of skin...