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...after three weeks, two video cards, and a final call to tech support...   I have to accept that the nv4_disp infinite loop blue screen of death is a result of a decaying motherboard ( Read more... )

…nope, didn’t get out of bed this morning.  Lay in and snuggled.  Cost me a white chocolate mocha on the way to work, but was pleasant enough to be worth it.  Worked out over lunch, and was a pretty low key day, overall.  I need to get up and run tomorrow, or I am going to be hurting this weekend.

Rather pleasant day today.  Cleaned up house, ran, lifted, and let the contractors replace the sub-floor, molding, and paint the laundry room.  Soon, the tile will be in and we can begin shopping for a new washing machine ( Read more... )

Hard to believe I would live in a time when there would be a run on a bank.  Scarier still, an investment bank.  Which implies that them that knows, knows something that that wanna haves and have nots do not.  Scary.

Lucky for me, I am prepared.

Yellow Ledbetter.

I am pretty sure that there is not song like this, that will take me immediately back to on of the most vulnerable times of my life, ever.

Officially, unofficially, however you determine the depth of your love at 19 or 20 years old, this song copied from the B-side of whatever Pearl Jam song was rocking the airwaves ( Read more... )

California.

Been starting on putting together my scrapbook of my life in the Marines.  California takes a big part in that.  In the beginning, I was not much more than a scared man boy staring out across a martian wilderness, watching the horizon melt beneath the orange haze.  The smell of creosote and sage, shocking at first, would grow to ( Read more... )

For many reasons, I do not like Windows Media Player.  Unfortunately, between that and Creative Labs, it is all I have to listen to music whilst I do other things.  And I will never, never bow to the tyranny of a proprietary file format.  Thank you, Amazon.com.  Fuck you, Ipod.

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Further Down The Road

One day you look up and
there's life's rearview mirror
And disappearing into the distance are the roads
you left behind
You look back enough to feel
the longing
then you give yourself
a smile
but your owners manual doesn't recommend
throwing 40,000 pounds of rig into reverse
when you're going straight
ahead at 55
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