Over half a year ago, before life got a bit bizarre (if you're curious about it and haven't heard me rub off about it yet, just ask in a comment), I was obsessed with white supremacists. They seemed to be making more and more of a presence, showing up at events for Rand Paul and coming out with television programs featuring four year old ubermenschen.

I may have overdone it; at the time, an editor for a newspaper I worked for told me I was pushing the white supremacist angle well beyond what was reasonable and that they were simply not as much of a presence as I was touting.

Looking back at the sort of thing I posted on Dagblog while abroad, I was a bit disturbed. The few comments I got (I imagine most people were too uncomfortable to touch it and just went on to other fair) were pretty terse.

I'm alive and well but I've been through hell. I accidentally detoxed from a hardcore antidepressant - Effexor - and resultingly behaved like a madman. There wasn't anything I really did that could have harmed me but I feel really fortunate to be alive after something like that.

I've been getting to know my genetic uncle a lot lately. The association is enlightening and he has quite a bit to teach me.

Among these is, to be blunt, the very real history in my family of mental illness. It's something I'm fully conscious of and most people in my family are fully conscious of. People in our family tend to live a long time, they tend to become extremely difficult people to be around and they tend to have difficulties with their minds - epilepsy, schizophrenia, anxiety, Asperger's, dementia - as opposed to suffering from physical or psychological afflictions.

There aren't alot of books in Guam. There is a public library that, from its appearance, clearly does not merit the top ranking in tax collections on the island. I haven't been on the military bases yet but I assume there are more books there. Computer shops, car shops, grocery stores and banks abound (oh boy, do banks abound here, most likely frequented by someone who just made off with someone else's money).