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i took a slew of photographs of matt’s band, fan tan alley. as you can see, they need them for their new website! wooo! matt is the bassplayer. craig is the vocalist and they seem to have rotating drummers, although the one that came out with them came all the way from toronto for the west coast gigs. that’s a good sign.
matt seems to be doing well for himself out there in toronto, which is good, because we sure do miss him out here.
and now for the “whatever” part of the post..
i was driving in the right-most lane of a 4 lane road. going through an intersection. this old man who is driving slowly in the left lane (going the same way) decides he must take a right in the middle of the intersection. hooray. his little sedan crunches into the side of the big green machine. i didnt really feel it; the van is quite large. i pulled over, the guy appeared confused and probably about 80ish. i felt sorry for him, but he didn’t even shoulder check and he tried changing lanes in the middle of an intersection.
a friendly fellow in a rather expensive car saw everything from behind. that’s good, because the old man didn’t seem to know what was going on, even though he turned his signal on mid-intersection. ah well..
tonight can’t be a late one for me .. i have to be at the jubilee hospital at 8:30 for some health authority volunteer work. that train of thought that i believed i had yesterday has vanished.. but slowly and surely, i am learning how to increase my attention span..

so, i declare a victory for this blog. today i had to sit down and write a letter with purpose. a year ago, pre-blog, it would have taken me roughly all day to do such a thing. yet, when i sat down this day to write a letter, it took no more than 5 minutes. it all just came out.. it was actually kind of enjoyable now that i think about it. you see, i started a blog so that i could get better at writing. at actually writing. not particularly grammar or anything like that. such things have no place on my blog.. haha. but really, just the thought process that allows words to flow from the brain and into text. that is the thing. that is the part. that is why i started a blog. not to post pictures, not to post mp3’s of radio show episodes that i have hosted or been on, not to post CD’s or IRC quotes.
clearly, i am not against such things. i find amusement in and of these things and i know a bunch of other people that do as well. i didn’t start a blog to become a moveabletype ninja but i have sort have become one with time. tomorrow i will be integrating moveable type with dreamweaver for a new project at work. neaaaaaaaaaaat! that has potential to be very powerful.
i took my canon G2 to future shop today because the battery life has been sporadic. most times i’ll have 3-4 hours of continuous shooting with the LCD screen on, some times i’ll have 5 minutes. what?!? that’s not right. so they gave me a new battery (worth $100) and i’ll test it out for a few days. i need my camera working well before this trip to the UK.
tomorrow i “should be” receiving an email from the Czech Embassy regarding a Visa application. they have been unable to guarantee that I will get my passport back before june 29th. they have replied with “you should get your passport back in time” but i need a “yes” or a “no” considering i need my passport to go on this plane trip to the UK that I have already paid for. so anyway, this is on top of the $80 they want for me to enter the country. there’s gotta be a better way to get into Prague than this process that could take up to a month. gurn.

post #300 will be a short one, though not as short as cruising whales.
just popping in to say that i’m loving my new job as project manager at this fantastic multimedia firm and juggling is fun!
i’ve got big plans today — work, radio show, housewarming, friend’s birthday, fan tan alley rock concert at the upstairs lounge, kube & sleep. well the last one is obviously the last priority.
i have maaaaad pictures to post and eventually some interesting thoughts too.
PSA: i have to defrag the server hd. so. beware. i may do this some time this weekend (maybe saturday night) or the coming week. the website isn’t going away, it’s only getting faster. this is good news for krishen, chrissie, erik etc who have stuff hosted on my robot.
what a gorgeous day!

whales

I wanna live life
And never be cruel
And I wanna live life
And be good to you
And I wanna fly
And never come down
And live my life
And have friends around
We never change, do we?
No, no
We never learn, do we?
So, I wanna live in a wooden house
I wanna live life
And always be true
I wanna live life
And be good to you
I wanna fly
And never come down
And live my life
And have friends around
We never change, do we?
No, no
We never learn, do we?
So, I wanna live in a wooden house
And making more friends
Would be easy
Oh, and I don’t have a song to sing
Yes, and I sin every single day
We never change, do we?
We never learn, do we?
So, I wanna live in a wooden house
And making more friends would be easy
I wanna live where the sun comes out
– coldplay

oliver lieb rules all!

i am having what i expect most days to be like. you know, they’re not all this good. not that is day is perfect — it isn’t, but it is far better than bad.
swerve went really well last night — i enjoyed djing and was very happy with my set and tim played one of his strongest performances yet. after the bar closed we went to denny’s for some food and hilarity ensued. i don’t think i will post the movies. well maybe i will. i need consent first from ria. heheheheh.
i turned my phone on just as we were leaving the club and received a message from The Sandman in Vancouver that they had found my glasses. this is especially good, especially since i find myself staring at a screen a lot these days.
today i have been designing drafts and sitting beside a sunny window. it’s so nice out and it’s helping me be creative. nice! it doesn’t usually work that way for me.
oh and as jester had pointed out, everyone and their dog has done the googlism thing.. everyone except me. until now! take a look at my unique results for ariz0na!

so this is it, my week of gigs.
this is my first week of work.
tonight i am djing at swerve.
friday i am djing on resonance.
saturday i am djing at an underground party.

lately security has been on my mind. what does it mean to you?
job security, home security .. security at parties..
what resonates within you when you think of the word security?