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a past at last

Since bringing my old computer to work I’ve been finding all this old stuff from what seems like previous lives. It’s so exciting to look back on things that I have said and think fondly of the particular moment. Knowing how beautiful my life is right now and knowing what has transpired to get me here makes me nothing short of ecstatic. I don’t say it nearly enough, but I love you all beyond belief. All the lurkers, all the readers, all the friends. You are all so wonderful.

February 4th 2008:

I’m very much floating in an ocean right now. I can smell and feel the salt on my lips, I’m bobbing up and down and the previous shore is far enough away that I’m satisfied with my progress. Here I am trying to swim to the next island, away from the last one, but these waves keep breaking on me, pushing me not closer to this other island, but push me closer to the last one. I hurry and swim away before it’s too late, before the previous beach looks remotely apetizing. I’m not really worried about the waves that distract me from my goal, I’m not worried about getting blown back to the previous island, but I am worried that when I get to the next shore I’ll be too tired from all this swimming to make the most of it.

Why did you say so

I love my job. There are few things in my life that I love more than my job. I have a tremendous amount of freedom in the diversity of the work I do and I have a tremendous amount of freedom when I’m allowed to do it.

I got an e-mail at 2:21AM that I had to respond to immediately so now I’m up. This is the nature of how I work. My biological clock doesn’t usually get me up until at least 4AM so I thought I would kill a little awake time with my news reader.

Have you ever had those people you’re just drawn to? It’s like, despite everything, you can’t help but want to be around them? kRob is one of those people for me. Somebody I’ve known for almost 4 years now. We have the same birthday and despite living in separate states we’ve always managed to remain good friends.

Last week it was making a cup of coffee and virtually sending it to Kristi cause she sucks at making coffee. Last night was letting my friend come over to watch the Jazz game only to have him dump his dog on me so he could go see a Sundance movie. I could go on but I won’t.

So this doesn’t get long I’ll just say that it’s nice to get some words of affirmation for a change. Lately I have been giving so much of myself to my friends and have felt a little lost in doing so. It’s time for a bit more me time.

F Scott Fitzgerald

One of the first things I did when I got my Kindle was to hack it to display my own screen saver. It comes with a default set of images that I removed so it wouldn’t cycle through them at random. Yesterday I decided to go back and look at all the images that they had preloaded. The selection of images are primarily of famous authors throughout the years. You could imagine my surprise when I realized there was no screen saver of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I decided to create one and I’m posting it here for everyone to download.

Things that aren’t awesome – Part 1

I was having an awesome day. The kind of day were it can’t get much better. Well, a Jazz win could make it better.

Anyway, I had a single thought about a past endeavor, and it put me into a bad mood. That’s not awesome.