baby_steps_away_from_the_deep_well_of_assholery does it ease the pain? aren't we all? Dax, aren't we all?? _ 100326 ... unhinged no, not all of us step away from this well. some of us plunge in head first and swim in it our entire lives. entitlement 100327 ... xadle I don't imagine there's any universal trajectory. Two steps forward, four to the side. Then, who knows what? I'd like to think that with sustained effort, and enough time, one can increase their distance from the well. Looking back over the last decade, I see a decreased rate of assholery. Maybe beginning with several instances a day and currently at one instance a month. Then there's the scale of "how much of an asshole were you and how quickly did you stop and do any necessary repairs?" But there's no telling if I'll drift back into being an epic asshole. For some reason, I imagine that at age 60 I might be quite the douche. Hopefully I'll live to find out. 120624 ... oren No matter how far_away I get from it, I find myself right back_down in that well after one assholian act. 120624 ... unhinged i'll crawl back in the hermit cave now 120625 ... dafremen Too late. You're soaking in it..and thoroughly marinated by now. 120625 ... Steps away from the deep dax, i love you. 120625 what's it to you? who go blather from