Coping skills

Coping skills are not easy to learn. The best training program I have seen so far is Marsh Linnehan's Dialectic Behavior Therapy Skills Training. Life gets complicated. Crises happen. Practicing coping skills before a crisis starts is the only way to successfuly manage one. Very few people are able to stop and think about what to do next in a crisis.

Wall Street bonuses!?

I read about this in the newspaper this morning. These companies that are all going belly up, asking the government for help, shedding tens of thousands of jobs are paying huge bonuses.

Where the heck is that money coming from? Why are they not making the employees they are keeping feel some of the pain? That money could have been used to keep some of the unemployed people employed.

Those companies have no business paying any bonuses at all in times like these.

Knit half moon shawl

I am drawing my inspiration from the pattern located here:

http://monstercrochet.blogspot.com/2008/03/free-pattern-knitted-half-round-shawl.html

I am going for a smaller shawl with a more gently rounded look. I did experiement with different numbers of stitches in the pattern row. I was not happy with what I ended up with.

Now I am experimenting with how often I repeat the increase row that is in this pattern. I am also experimenting with starting mine with 4 cast on stitches as opposed to 8 cast on stitches. I am following LadyLinoleum's pattern in one of the shawls I am making so I can compare. I doubt I will go to 320 stitches though. With my gauge and that size knitting needle, I would end up with a half diameter of between 80 and 100 inches.

The truth about Giskard

Giskard continues to engage in outright lies and defamation of character. Since I am one of the people being defamed, I am taking this opportunity to defend myself.

I just took another look at his site.

His most recent quote about the AK forum users:
"Everybody is welcome to use this forum, including those who bear me no ill will from the AK forums but understand this, there is no middle ground, you use AKs forums, then you support and condone the theft of my data. Do not expect me (the Victim) to be too happy to see you whilst you use that forum. I will not ban you but I will not trust you either.

There are two out and out lies in this statement. First, no one stole anything from him. Second he is not a victim, he is a malicious manipulative perpetrator of fraud and abuse.

Giskard is claiming that files on TESNexus were transferred out of his account without his permission. This is a lie.

Giskard issued a very broad and ambiguous license that did allow for this transfer to happen. At the same time, this abusive man shut down his web site and announced that he was leaving the Oblivion Modding community for good, and then he pretended to leave.

The people who had been active on his old site were invited over to the AK forums to form a new community there. Giskard was included in the new forums. Giskard also knew about the files that were being transferred out of his account on TESNexus prior to the actual transfer. He knew about this transfer because he was reading and posting on the AK forums where this pending transfer was announced at the time it was announced. Giskard chose to let the transfer happen.

If he did not want that transfer to happen, why did he not stop it before it happened? He knew about it. He said nothing to anyone on the AK forum. He also said nothing to the people over at TESNexus.