David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Author: David Schwarm

  • Queen of swords, the Sun, and Death

  • May 27

    The love of noise and excitement in modern civilization is due in part to the fact that people are unhappy on the inside. Noise exteriorized them, distracts them, and makes them forget their worries for the moment. There is an unmistakable connection between an empty life and a hectic pace.

  • Frogs

    • Stuck in the bathroom
    • Jelly Roll is really good
    • Not grown
    • Church Ladies
    • Sunday June 4
    • East Bluff
    • Algorithmic
    • Dialog
    • I don’t like it
    • More space
    • Ambivalence vs indifference
    • More energy in ambivalence
    • About your drinking
    • Air fresheners
    • Air price
    • 40% memorial day discount
    • 60% July Fourth discount
    • Basketball games take four hours
    • Russ party
    • Beth
    • I am all out of Love
    • Queen of Rock and Roll
    • Tommy
    • Domestic
    • Convinced they are my kids
    • Oppenheimer
    • Nat-N
    • N20
    • N19 is Brian
    • Dead at the movies

    • Enneagram 6
    • Road back to you (book) about the Enneagram
    • Chapters on each are read more thoroughly
    • Machiavelli test
    • Tina is a nine and a two
    • Prayer life
    • William dating Jennings
    • They are getting married in the next two years
    • we all need recovery
    • No mistakes in Gods universe
    • Jamie @ May 6
    • Jenna went to the funeral
    • Favorite addict
    • Always somethin in his mouth
    • Destiny is exciting
    • Purpose of why we are gathered here today
    • Requested DP
    • Need shoes
    • Tore up his socks
    • Not a good picture
    • Barbara is chasing feral cats
    • Instagram handle
    • Memory is cool
    • Cats with Clark
    • Alphabetizing
    • Review your blog
    • July 25 Washington
    • July 6th is close
    • Algorithm never tells you when you have gone to far
    • I lived with a guy who took Ambien / he was sober / it was prescribed
    • Crying baby
    • Outspokenness of love
    • Unspokenness of love
    • I said I love you first
    • A book I did not invite him to read
    • Maybe she wore them from the night before
    • Heels
    • Text me last time
    • Flowers– no ping anything.

  • May 26

    We must keep going at anything we do until we get our second wind. One enjoys a mountain climb more after passing through the first mountain of discouraged exhaustion. One becomes more interested in a job or work after the fist impulse to drop it has been overcome.

  • Li and T’ung Jên

  • Hyacinth and the mycelial network

    Keys From The Golden Vault live from Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, continues this week with the Stygian Gambit–a casino heist. This week everything goes to hell (literally) as the heroes battle their way out of the vault and through a portal to Ravnica! Yes, enter the Magic the Gathering metaverse. Our second-level heroes – Deacon Dupree (Rogue), Top Hat (Rogue), Snow in the Mountain (Fighter), Grease the Greasier (Ranger), Swallow the River (Rogue), Carolus Rex the Eyeless (Paladin), and Julie Newmar (Ranger)– rob the vault, make progress on the Bag of Holding, and continue their adventures with the Golden Vault.

    Carolus Rex the Eyeless (Paladin played by Adam) is based on Scarecrow
    Deacon Dupree (Rogue played by Rock) is based on Brother Dupree
    Grease in the Greasier (Barbarian played by Oshi) is Man-Bat
    Julie Newman (Ranger played by Lance) is Ra’s al Ghul
    Snow on the Mountain (Fighter played by Lewis) is mentored by Two-Face,
    Swallow the River (Cleric played by Brian) is a follower of Zoltec the Crocodile god of death from Chult.
    Top Card (Rogue played by Glenn) is Cat Women without the slapstick

    The players continue a very serous Croc journey.

    The table is large and players have plenty of room.

    Glen’s character is addicted to Cheez-It’s and he is celebrating my hatred of Gum with yet another yard of gum.

    Players have leveled up–and Louis has once again rolled wonderfully!

    A fairly easy week behind the DM screen–I did get a call from my old friend Greg Miller at the shop, which was amazing.

  • A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

    A Sport and a PastimeA Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
    My rating: 4 of 5 stars

    I took A fantastic book to SARGE (my book club) from the Better than Food YouTube video. It is sexy in a kind of old-school James Bond type of way. Fun and easy to read–good European voyages.

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  • May 25

    Begin with your own emptiness and seek Him who can fill it.

  • Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs by Caleb Doxsey

    Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable ProgramsIntroducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs by Caleb Doxsey
    My rating: 3 of 5 stars

    I love O’Reilly Press–reading these books takes me back and joys me. I have many of them and have started reading a page or two days while logging in at the office. It brings me joy. This book was not great–a solid overview of the features but no exciting exercises or examples.

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