Yet more ramblings

My beloved has been suffering with severe headaches for over a year now. Sometimes daily, sometimes they will go away for weeks at a time. We've been to two Ear, Nose, and Throat specialists, our general practitioner, and today was an allergist. She is allergic to everything! We are going to go over various options such as pulling the carpeting out of our house, HEPA filtration systems, and central vacuums. But, in the end we will probably rely on just allergy shots. :( Ouch. Last night i wanted to get my thoughts down for a handful of the characters for the story i wanted to write, but got side tracked cross loading some music between my various storage devices, my laptop, and my MP3 player. I was also being pulled in several directions as my beloved was dealing with a pretty bad headache (see above). One thing i was able to do was create a new folder on my desk top where i could "dump" all of my 'source' files. Things like .pdf files on all of the background i have, information on the various 'factions' i plan on using, and my current character notes. I've started an outline in the software i bought for all of this. It's called "Liquid Story Binder XE", and i HIGHLY recommend it. You can download a free trial version, and the overall price seems very reasonable to me ($49.95). It has excellent support and on-line community exchange of ideas (via a Yahoo! news group), and it is fairly intuitive (and also has some good tutorials). Man, you'd think i get a commission or something. Hmm... maybe i should contact them... :-) Which reminds me... i am considering setting up an e-commerce site. More on that another time. I am not sure why i am about to blog about this, but here goes... For as long as i can remember i have had a fascination with Elves. Not the little fanciful creatures, more akin to the Tolkien style. About human height, long living, aloof, etc. I doubt most, if any, of my regular readers will know what i am talking about, but there it is. When ever i played a game growing up i always chose to play an elf (if it was possible). The first job that i ever had (the kind that actually took taxes out) was at a hobby store specializing in such games. I remember a box set of plastic miniatures of Wood Elves. For no other reason than i liked how they looked, i bought them. Since then i've grown to enjoy reading about them from time to time, but i especially like their portrayal in the LORD OF THE RINGS (LOTR) movies. And they are fairly popular in various 'circles'. Some make them out to be quite sensious (for lack of a better word coming to mind), some make them out to be quite mystical (or magical if you will). I, of course, have my own images of them, but my favorite scene is when Arwyn and Aragorn are finally united at the end of the LOTR. Anyway... That's all i have time to ramble about today. Draw close to God... seek Him first. Study Him and His word above all things, so that when counterfeit things try and wedge in to your life, you can recognize it before it takes root.