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[posteverything]

"a strong and warm wind from the south: a big fish in a small pond, a stubborn blackberry seed stuck in my teeth."There are times where I like to daydream about an imagined future where - and this could be many decades or centuries after today - where somewhere, anyplace, those who remain at least somewhat literate will sit and drink coffee and

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Good for you

[kenopolis]

Hey Jay, good that things are progressing. I forwarded a potential client to rob a few weeks ago... Anything come of that?

We should get together soon to go fishing... My daughter and I went last week. She's so cute trying to fish. I never catch anything, especially when i'm concentrating on preventing Amelia from falling in the water. But That's not really the point is it?

Right now I'm reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Good book so far. Read it if you get a chance. I picked up my copy at good will.

Re: Good for you

[posteverything]

Shit dude, I love American Gods. I lent that book out about two years ago to Rob now...I wonder if I'll ever actually get it back.

Potential client, really? I hadn't heard anything. :/

And fishing is good just for fishing's sake. I've never caught anything, nor do I want to. It's just the act itself, I think, that I like. Yes, we should do that one of these days soon, Andy Griffith-style. :)

[deepgreensea]

hooray for not having the painful, horrible stress of starting a business devour you.
i wonder most days how i ever did it. six years later, that whole time was a blur. and unfortunately for me, i'm kind of in a situation that isn't the most ideal. while i've made my store a decent reflection of myself, it's still in an industry i don't fully want to be part of. hence the dilemma. i still have big dreams of doing something fulfilling in a way completely different from this experience i'm in currently, but the idea of starting again makes me wonder if there's a chance for me to avoid a breakdown in the process.

[posteverything]

I know exactly what you mean because I think I've reached a point where starting over doesn't seem to hold the kind of excitement and promise that it used to, like maybe I've done it too many times and now I'm just tired. Left with little other choice we would most probably buckle down and persevere, like if we had to. So maybe it's just a mental thing, sitting from a comfortable perspective and saying, "Nah..I don't think I can do that."

Well!

[jasonanonymous]

Running drunk through a corn maze could get a guy laid...

~Jason

Re: Well!

[posteverything]

Yeah, but it's just sex. I mean...you know.

[autumn2remember]

I just finally read "the book of joshua"
I always find it strange to read your version of stuff like that. It's a time I think of too- but I never can take the memories seriously. I'm not sure how to describe it- it just seems like a different lifetime, or some strange dream- and it' hard to believe any of us were like that.

Does this make any sense?

[posteverything]

It makes sense, Shannon, because I think we all look upon those times with our own unique perspective, as we did while we were living them. They're still very much a part of my reckoning because I still go through places like Liberty and Gladstone all the time, literally. But just like those places have changed so much cosmetically speaking, so do my perceptions of those times too. It's like looking through some kind of distorted lens, with the perspective of so many years, and knowing what I know now...

[jasonanonymous]

You ever want to walk up to those kids that were us and say, "I used to BE you," just to look at their reaction?

I see 'em all the time. Same kids, same places, different names, updated for the times.

~Jason

[posteverything]

I do, but I don't actually do it. I figure that if someone several years older than me, when I was say 18-19 years old, came up and told me that I'd be all "whatever." In other words, it would be lost on me, as I'm sure it would be for them.

[ash808]

Hey, I just noticed your comment on sarah's journal.. have you been here all this time? Somehow you got lost off the friends list. I have added you back and hopefully you'll do the same. :D

[posteverything]

Whoa! It's Ashley! 'Course I'll add you back...

I haven't really been on all this time...well, I sort of have, but I've gone months between some posts over the last couple of years. I'm definitely not the online debutante that I used to be.

Now what about you? How are the wife and kids?

[ash808]

hey buddy! I'm glad you are back in action.

Things are swell in ashley-land. we bought a house and I'm currently trying to decide what colors to paint the walls. that's the excitement I have these days... and it's just fine by me!

I am almost done with school forever. I've got a few semesters left and it's over. I am a pastry chef now so that's pretty awesome. If you're ever in Overland Park (ugh) stop in and get some delicious authentic Italian food at Il Trullo. we're at 91st and Metcalf. I'll probably give you a large hug because I'm kind of motherly these days.. :D

[posteverything]

Wow...I am seriously never out that way. :) But I think I know exactly where that place is, kind of across the street from where King Louie was. There's nothing I love more than Italian food though, so it's tempting.

That's pretty damn cool you all bought a house, too.