[ 13.00.02.12.13 All things change ( Read more... )

[ 13.00.01.11.01Don't mind me. I'm just meandering around in my own mind. Since my car wreck in Portland a few years ago, my hand writing has really began to suffer. With enough visits to the chiropractor I'm at least able to type. My hand written journals have become sloshy ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.18.04.01 ]

...Bridge to Terabithia. After she died in the book. I put the book down and never finished it. Several times in years gone bye, I would pick it up and hold it. But not once did I open it.

Vika's birthday was yesterday. The iPhone has saved our last SMS exchanges. I smiled with sorrow as I read our past exchanges. Then ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.18.03.10 ]

(Note: This was sitting in my LJ buffer. I obviously lost my mind for awhile. But here it is.)

In less then 4 hours I will be interviewing at the Evil Empire. It has been a most interesting ride to come back from. Wandered around the world last year. France twice, Czech Republic, Germany, Romania and Russia once, Ukraine 3 ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.18.00.01 ]

...I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to yell into the phone as loud as I could, "What the fuck!" Instead, I sat there calmly as possible. The world began to blur as the tears clouded my eyes before they reached the pressure required to overflow and trickle down my face. I did not wipe them away. My hands tightly clutched ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.17.10.02 I was laying on the trampoline underneath the stars. Lil mischief was purring near my feet. I smiled at the code in my editor as I paused for a moment to just breathe. All consumed with my work has become my usual state of mind lately. No writings, no musings, not even the occasional video games. Just line after line of code ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.17.01.03 ]

72 hours before I fly to Paris. I've never really liked Paris. I only have two memories of Paris. The first being lost and alone there for 7 days. A stranger in a strange land, that had no love for strangers. The second glimpses of a movie while in a drunken state at a party as a youth and hearing the voice of Marge Simpson ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.16.15.00 ]

California apparently has dibs on me. This time it's San Diego. An offer of better pay with performance bonuses on top of that. Met them for lunch Friday at the Red IguanaGoing to the Leonard Cohen concert with one of my oldest friends in Las Vegas, NV this Thursday. Then it's off to San Diego for round two of interviews ( Read more... )

[ 12.19.16.14.08 ]

Didn't get the job in San Francisco. But at least I got paid to go out there and have fun touring the city.

Now for something completely different. . .

[ 12.19.16.14.07Almost 36 years on this rock and I would love to say that the puzzle pieces that make up life are no longer fuzzy and the border is filled in nicely, now it's just that tricky middle to deal with. Though, the truth is that more then ever I just wonder how many pieces are left in the box. I have long since given up on making sense ( Read more... )