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one man band
check this out. its really quiet so adjust accordingly. [i'm working on the link...]
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the world is safe for now
last week i ordered for the first time an item from ebay (which makes me the last remaining person in north america to have an ebay account... it's sad when canandians beat you at anything). i ordered risk II (for the pc) for a penny plus shipping and handling. pretty sweet huh? i got it in the mail today and gave it a go. i think this should satisfy my desire for world domination for now.
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well after its long awaited debut i thought, i'm gonna get this cd as soon as i can. then i got it 18 months later. everybody i've talked to and the reviews i've read said the postal service: give up was disappointing. i admit it wasn't what i expected but i still like it. this keeps the total of ben gibbard projects i don't like at zero.
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horse stories
1996
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[insound link]
everything thats keeping me together is falling apart
(god i love modest mouse lyrics. isaac brock, you rock. but only when the good times are killing you.) today was my last day working at camp snoopy. it was kind of slow and i didn't have a whole lot to do. but i had to say goodbye over and over again to many many people which sucked. i hadn't really given it much thought before today, saying goodbye to the people i worked with, the people i've gotten to know over the past few weeks, months, and years. perhaps i hadn't thought of it because i subconsciencely try not to show negative emotion. therefore i guess i'm not good at goodbyes. i kept my leaving low key until this weekend when i casually let people in on the news. and as always the news spread like wildfire. last night as the general manager was walking by he stopped and talked to me and wished me well in whatever i was doing in the future. how the news got to him is beyond me but i guess i was pleasently surprised by our encounter. and as for the rest, the people in my department who didn't know i was leaving, at one point or another they will find out that i left, and if for just one second they'd pause and think of me in a good light i'd consider myself lucky. not because i tried to be 'the team lead of the people', but because they remembered me as a individual person and not a number or a team lead. but anyway leaving was tougher than i thought, not beacuse i loved the job (sarcasm), but because i loved the people. it was a difficult departure but a necessary one.
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the bends
1995
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[insound link]
here comes the sun
thats right... the sun is out the sky is blue its beautiful and so are you. wrong song but right idea/band. the past few days have been nothing but mud and grey so it was nice to see the sun break through that grey cotton candy in the sky. i'm tired regardless.
the end of an era
this sunday will be my last day of work at camp snoopy. i finally submitted my two weeks notice and just a tick under eight years. sadly it has become a sort of way of life for me. whatever i did i always had a job at the camp, which was nice option. i will miss certain things/people... and other things/people not so much. perhaps this will motivate me enough to seriously look for a job when i return from england... a real job that is.
(hardly) par for the course
golf has become the post softball sport for me. not that i had a real desire to learn but after an invitation to play with friends and playing for just the second time in my life my scores were comparable to everyone else's. i can't get much worse can i? but its a good way to get outside and enjoy the weather. even if it is 52 degrees (10 degrees C).
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