I've been focused pretty intensely on my studies (for once) this semester as some of you may have noticed. So its been a bit of a while since I've posted any kind of update or deep thought on here. [Click to read the full post]

In capturing video clips for my friend Pete's wedding I stumbled across what they said about me at my high school graduation. It wasn't the most wonderful thing at the time, but looking back I am kind of glad they said what they did - it suits me well :) [Click to read the full post]

I'm back!

Yes - no more living in hotels or driving 9 hrs in a day, and no more paid 16 hr shifts. Its back to my so called 'normal' routine.
I'm back in school doing a full course load again (it seems like its been forever!).

Thanks to the demands of a number of my faithful readers I've taken a break from a project I've been working on to post an update or two. [Click to read the full post]

My brother and his wife just had their first child :) [Click to read the full post]

This past weekend I went with Ash up to her parents boat up in Midland. Stayed there Fri-Monday, and got back last night crashing hard :)

It was a blast though. Ash sent me some pics and gave me permission to post 'em :) [Click to read the full post]

I guess I've kinda been leaving out a significant detail in some of my past blog entries. You see I haven't just been busy with work and sleeping. I have some other things going on as well. My weekends are taken up as I'm away and not around to do anything. Its my choice so no worries ;) [Click to read the full post]

Tylenol 3 makes me sleepy!

I've been on/off the drugs now for a bit. Seems that I can sleep ok without anything, and I only need them later in the evening when it starts to get really bad and I'm ready to sleep.
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Thanks for all the wonderful comments yesterday guys, and to those of you who called or left a message. It meant alot!!

I survived the surgury and somehow stumbled home. Unlike most people that get the drugs for wisdom teeth - they didn't give me the semiconscious one that they usually use that some people can awake from part way through or drift between consciousness and back again. I was out.. and they had a hard time waking me up after too! [Click to read the full post]

Sorry I haven't posted recently. This past week or so has been a whirlwind of activities, pictures, emotions and a few other fun things tied in to make it complete.

Today I thought I'd finally get around to posting something. Maybe its a fear that its my last post (ok... so there is a little truth in that). Maybe its just that now I can justify a few griping posts after!.

But.. today I am booked to get my wisdom teeth out. [Click to read the full post]

Saturday was planned as my day to sleep in and relax. I slept in until late morning and just lay in bed until about noon when I got out of bed. It was so nice to be able to just sit in bed with my laptop and relax without worrying about having to be up at a certain time etc.

A 'normal' relaxing day for me is never just composed of lying around doing nothing though (as much as I have had my days of that in the past). In talking that morning to Jesse and Liz (the friends from the states mentioned in my last entry), plans quickly started to fall together for a very spur of the moment get together. They were going to be at a coffee house just over the border in the Buffalo area so it wasn't as far as the coffee house I went to last time I visited. It soon became something with potential.

(Lots of pictures for this entry!) [Click to read the full post]

...or something close to that :)

Its been a long long weekend and I've been enjoying almost every minute of it (except the part where it ended). I'm finally getting on top of everythign and getting around to blogging whats new in my life etc.

Friday was the night of my suprise birthday party! I'm guessing it may have been a comment I made a while back but my best friend Ash decided that for my birthday present she was going to go far out of her way to track down all (and I mean ..everyone on this planet that knows me that could possibly come) of my friends. [Click to read the full post]

I wrote part of this way back when I started to first post poetry on my site. This was actually meant to be what I was goign to post first. But due to things going on, I held off posting it.

The majority of you who read this may never be able to make any sense of it, and I don't really want or expect you too, so don't be offended. Some of my closest friends though may find out if they want to ask :)

Sorry if its not that good. The message is of value, not the form or sound. [Click to read the full post]

There is always the other side...
For some, its the only side they see. But that, is only for some.
Others, its merely the flip side.
Yet in so many. It does not exist.

What is the 'other side'? Its the spiritual side. Living a completely different and often opposite life than our physical pursuits. [Click to read the full post]

I grew up without a TV, and slowly had a VCR+TV combination introduced when I was mid way through elementary. We used to rent movies etc selectively on the weekends. Then my parents won a large HD TV (the one in my office), and its been downhill since then! I gave them a TV antenna for christmas and they were more then happy with the increase from 3-15 channels they could watch. Over time though the complaints came in, and it was just never good or clear enough.
So we went to the next level, and now have a large HD satallite dish on our roof feeding 3 TVs throughout the house.
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As some of you may know, I went for a random road trip today.. just because I could, and I don't know when I"ll get another chance to make a random trip down to visit more distant friends!

I guess I've set a new distance/travel record for how far I've gone to visit someone for coffee. I had an amazing and very refreshing time going down to Olean/Allegany NY again today. [Click to read the full post]