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It's my birthday today. I'm 37 years old. I think my last entry on here was 7 years ago.
A lot of things have happened in the interim. I own a bar now. A few long and short term relationships passed by and now I'm married to a wonderful woman. That sounds like a pretty flip way to describe a huge amount of emotion so trust that the extended story is beautiful and tragic and has a happy ending. Haven't played a rock show since January of 2009. I think I'm ok with that. I may get back into it someday but maybe not and that's ok. Braden died. That was not ok. So did a lot of other people but I won't dwell. I think of Braden always on my birthday since it was his too so I guess that's one reason why I call him out. My parents got divorced. I worked for a contractor to the VA for 3 years and then at an oil company in Ft. Worth for 3 years. My sister gifted me with 2 wonderful nieces and a nephew. I have 3 godchildren. I have lived in 2 different places, the last for 5 years. I'll probably move soon. I think I still have the same car.
I'm feeling kind of under the weather, probably because I haven't had proper rest since about a month before the bar opened and up until now. Today is 5 weeks of being open. It is going pretty well I have to say despite the sore back and throat.
It's really nice just sitting here alone after the bar has closed for the night, bartender has gone home, sipping on a beer from a beer rep, listening to Califone which I was probably doing 10 years ago. It's raining cats and dogs and I keep getting flash flood warnings on my phone. I should probably go home soon.
A lot of things happen on the phone now which wasn't happening so much when I wrote my last entry. When I wrote my last entry I don't think the iPhone was out yet (or maybe just the first one was) which is crazy because phones actually palpably changed the world since I have written here. Facebook killed this site pretty much I think which makes it feel safe and private and off the grid. But it's not. It's all being data mined. Every keystroke is searchable by anyone who wants to know anything. Just need to have the want to and the right access. The world is a very different place than it was in 2008. That's ok. I'm still having a pretty good time.
I have recently been reading back on this journal to try and get an idea of who and where I was when I was younger. No real reason, just fun to have my memory jogged. So that's why I'm doing this now. Thanks to LJ for sticking around. Nice to go back and see where I was.
So it's been 12 years since I started this journal. In 12 years I will be 49 on this day. Hey 49 year old me, did you get that Tesla? Did you buy that house? Did you start any more businesses? Do you still live in and love Houston? Do you have a place on the beach somewhere? Did the world end? Are there Zombies? Did you have enough food? Are you a cyborg? Do people live on Mars yet? Do you live on Mars? Did you die out too? I wish we could crack this linear time thing so we could all have one big conversation together. All of us in all of time that exists at once. I bet that would be pretty cool.
Happy birthday man. Hope you have a good one.
A lot of things have happened in the interim. I own a bar now. A few long and short term relationships passed by and now I'm married to a wonderful woman. That sounds like a pretty flip way to describe a huge amount of emotion so trust that the extended story is beautiful and tragic and has a happy ending. Haven't played a rock show since January of 2009. I think I'm ok with that. I may get back into it someday but maybe not and that's ok. Braden died. That was not ok. So did a lot of other people but I won't dwell. I think of Braden always on my birthday since it was his too so I guess that's one reason why I call him out. My parents got divorced. I worked for a contractor to the VA for 3 years and then at an oil company in Ft. Worth for 3 years. My sister gifted me with 2 wonderful nieces and a nephew. I have 3 godchildren. I have lived in 2 different places, the last for 5 years. I'll probably move soon. I think I still have the same car.
I'm feeling kind of under the weather, probably because I haven't had proper rest since about a month before the bar opened and up until now. Today is 5 weeks of being open. It is going pretty well I have to say despite the sore back and throat.
It's really nice just sitting here alone after the bar has closed for the night, bartender has gone home, sipping on a beer from a beer rep, listening to Califone which I was probably doing 10 years ago. It's raining cats and dogs and I keep getting flash flood warnings on my phone. I should probably go home soon.
A lot of things happen on the phone now which wasn't happening so much when I wrote my last entry. When I wrote my last entry I don't think the iPhone was out yet (or maybe just the first one was) which is crazy because phones actually palpably changed the world since I have written here. Facebook killed this site pretty much I think which makes it feel safe and private and off the grid. But it's not. It's all being data mined. Every keystroke is searchable by anyone who wants to know anything. Just need to have the want to and the right access. The world is a very different place than it was in 2008. That's ok. I'm still having a pretty good time.
I have recently been reading back on this journal to try and get an idea of who and where I was when I was younger. No real reason, just fun to have my memory jogged. So that's why I'm doing this now. Thanks to LJ for sticking around. Nice to go back and see where I was.
So it's been 12 years since I started this journal. In 12 years I will be 49 on this day. Hey 49 year old me, did you get that Tesla? Did you buy that house? Did you start any more businesses? Do you still live in and love Houston? Do you have a place on the beach somewhere? Did the world end? Are there Zombies? Did you have enough food? Are you a cyborg? Do people live on Mars yet? Do you live on Mars? Did you die out too? I wish we could crack this linear time thing so we could all have one big conversation together. All of us in all of time that exists at once. I bet that would be pretty cool.
Happy birthday man. Hope you have a good one.