User Profile

Scribblings from a suburban dragon.

TO E-MAIL ME: Use the address above or baxil at. tomorrowlands dot org. To make sure my spam filters don't accidentally flag your message, please add [BAXLJ] to the subject line.

About Me

Yes, I am a dragon.*

Baxil [bakh-HEEL] is a name, not just an Internet handle. It's not the name I was born with. (I make no secret of my "human" name, but prefer Baxil for all but work/tax purposes or people who have an existing reason to call me otherwise.)

I am happily married to beautiful wife kadyg.**

The two of us live together in the beautiful foothills of California's Sierra Nevada*** with two black cats and f15h (plural-times-15 of fish). I don't care if you come to our house and actually count 19 18 over 30 (our guppies have been busy), they're still f15h, dammit.

My Big Crazy Adventure

In summer 2006, I attempted to walk the entire Pacific Crest Trail. I completed 916 miles before developing patellar tendonitis in the high Sierra. I journaled the trip along the way, and a more in-depth look is available at my website. [Trip FAQ]

My trail name is Redtail. There is, of course, a story behind it.

About My Journal

For a long while, LJ was largely a sideline for me. I kept my real journal at Tomorrowlands up until a few big server crashes took the wind out of my sails. (In May 2004, I switched to Movable Type, kept going, and mirrored the journal at tlands_dot_org, but that got wiped out with the second server crash.) Now, I've migrated over here to keep the day-to-day writing habit fed. I try to be pretty diligent about tagging my entries in case you're interested in a particular facet of the multi-fauceted scarlet emerald of my life.****

Most of my journal is defiantly public*****; if I've friended you, respect my confidentiality, because friends-locked posts are that way for a reason. I also post a few items locked to hand-picked (not opt-in) subcircles of my social group, and a number of private notes-to-self/unfinished-posts, in case you're wondering about the numbers on the calendar view.

Other random journal-ey information:

• Have I commented on one of your posts? Usericon interpretation guide here.
  
  
• I try to maintain a relatively angst-free journal:

  
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  ... please help me keep it that way by respecting my opinions and beliefs (or at least my right to have them).
  
  
• If you're the sort of person who enjoys needless and hyper-anal levels of detail, my friends-list policy is here. I'm kind of embarassed I bothered to write it, so the short version: Trust comes first. Also, I'm a slacker who never bothers checking his "friend-of", so please do speak up if you friend me! Otherwise I may never know!

I ask not for consolation, but for passion and for grace,
I ask not for comfort, but for clarity;
Let me breathe in the Spirit, let me live in the light
Let me burn with a pure intensity.

Emergency contact information is here. [no, you can't see it. See meme.]

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* One decade and counting! (Or ~4,700 years and counting, depending. ]B=8))
** My remaining social/spiritual/relationship web, such as it is, is not really soundbite-able, but Kady gets (and deserves) special mention.
*** Not the "Sierra Nevada Mountains." "Sierra" is Spanish for "mountain range." They're not the Nevada Mountains Mountains, people.
*^4 I also seem to be developing quite a habit for footnoting my posts.
*^5 Take that, public!

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