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This is your world. These are your people. You can live for yourself today, or help build tomorrow for everyone.
Es ist Deine Welt
das sind Deine Mitmenschen
Du kannst heute für Dich leben
oder für alle die Zukunft von morgen aufbauen.
C'est ton monde
ces sont tes gens
aujourd'hui tu pourrais penser qu'à toi
ou aider à construire un lendemain pour tous
--VNV Nation, "Foreword"
*sigh*
So last week, my nice, reliable Honda Civic broke down. Apparently the alternator, the battery, several sensors and a load detector bit the dust.
Fortunately, I have an extended warranty on the car, and 3/4 of it was validated in this one event. The entire repair bill, minus the battery, was paid by the warranty. It even covered a rental car for me to use.
The car was repaired the next afternoon, and now I'm just waiting for the sensors to come in so i can go get those replaced.
Things were rocky for awhile between Kelly and me over the past few months. But something sort of clicked together the weekend before last, and since then we've been wonderful together. It feels like it should again. It's been so nice.
Budke, you might be interested to know that while I was down in the showroom today picking up another GB of memory, I looked up at the order displays that show current waiting orders, and there were two up there for "Stileproject Inc" to be picked up. I wanted to get a picture to show you, but camera-phoning the screens would've looked a little strange to my coworkers.
So today, I got my definite, perfect, irrefutable proof that whenever I leave my sunroof open, it rains, no matter the weather forecast... When I drove to work this morning, it was sunny out but with dark clouds coming in. No rain had fallen by the time I got to work. When I came back out for my lunch break, it was a gorgeous day out. Partly cloudy, beautiful temperature, felt nice all around. Windows down, sunroof open. Drove to Walmart to pick a few things up, left the sunroof open while I was inside. Spent about 25 minutes in there. Came back out, still sunny, still beautiful... and it was drizzling. I looked up, no clouds above me other than a couple of the little, thin, wispy ones. But it was still drizzling, and apparently the actual rainfall happened while I was inside, because things in my car were wet. How's THAT for proof?
Before me plays the endless film
Relentless splinters I recall
Each living thing breathes life
Only sentiment remains
To liquid born, from patterns formed
The sand descends with blind intent
Where the river takes me will in time be revealed
And I cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I will ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream
Above the waves with my hands raised
Dare the wind, lay claim to me
Knowing somehow none could take me
Watching the sun come up in vain
The only reason I can find why I remained
The need to leave the point I came to again and again
It didn't matter how hard I tried
It took so long to claim that I knew how
Or what it meant to let go of this
To ever say goodbye
Call it destiny, call it fate
Chose my direction: Running forward
Each life to learn anew
Whatever, whatever may come
And I cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I will ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream
No creed on Earth can replace or provide
In my darkest hour, the comfort I'd feel
Leading me to see I can be more than I expect of me
My beginning and my end
The first and last air that I breathe
More than the sum of everything that I will ever be...
--VNV Nation, "Arena"
Es ist Deine Welt
das sind Deine Mitmenschen
Du kannst heute für Dich leben
oder für alle die Zukunft von morgen aufbauen.
C'est ton monde
ces sont tes gens
aujourd'hui tu pourrais penser qu'à toi
ou aider à construire un lendemain pour tous
--VNV Nation, "Foreword"
*sigh*
So last week, my nice, reliable Honda Civic broke down. Apparently the alternator, the battery, several sensors and a load detector bit the dust.
Fortunately, I have an extended warranty on the car, and 3/4 of it was validated in this one event. The entire repair bill, minus the battery, was paid by the warranty. It even covered a rental car for me to use.
The car was repaired the next afternoon, and now I'm just waiting for the sensors to come in so i can go get those replaced.
Things were rocky for awhile between Kelly and me over the past few months. But something sort of clicked together the weekend before last, and since then we've been wonderful together. It feels like it should again. It's been so nice.
Budke, you might be interested to know that while I was down in the showroom today picking up another GB of memory, I looked up at the order displays that show current waiting orders, and there were two up there for "Stileproject Inc" to be picked up. I wanted to get a picture to show you, but camera-phoning the screens would've looked a little strange to my coworkers.
So today, I got my definite, perfect, irrefutable proof that whenever I leave my sunroof open, it rains, no matter the weather forecast... When I drove to work this morning, it was sunny out but with dark clouds coming in. No rain had fallen by the time I got to work. When I came back out for my lunch break, it was a gorgeous day out. Partly cloudy, beautiful temperature, felt nice all around. Windows down, sunroof open. Drove to Walmart to pick a few things up, left the sunroof open while I was inside. Spent about 25 minutes in there. Came back out, still sunny, still beautiful... and it was drizzling. I looked up, no clouds above me other than a couple of the little, thin, wispy ones. But it was still drizzling, and apparently the actual rainfall happened while I was inside, because things in my car were wet. How's THAT for proof?
Before me plays the endless film
Relentless splinters I recall
Each living thing breathes life
Only sentiment remains
To liquid born, from patterns formed
The sand descends with blind intent
Where the river takes me will in time be revealed
And I cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I will ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream
Above the waves with my hands raised
Dare the wind, lay claim to me
Knowing somehow none could take me
Watching the sun come up in vain
The only reason I can find why I remained
The need to leave the point I came to again and again
It didn't matter how hard I tried
It took so long to claim that I knew how
Or what it meant to let go of this
To ever say goodbye
Call it destiny, call it fate
Chose my direction: Running forward
Each life to learn anew
Whatever, whatever may come
And I cannot turn my feelings down
Beyond my means to turn my thoughts around
Expressed in every word I will ever speak
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream
No creed on Earth can replace or provide
In my darkest hour, the comfort I'd feel
Leading me to see I can be more than I expect of me
My beginning and my end
The first and last air that I breathe
More than the sum of everything that I will ever be...
--VNV Nation, "Arena"