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Well, after a nice three day weekend (four for some) here I am, back doing the grind. The picture for today gives insight into the greater workings of cubicle life. Notice the awesomeness of three monitors, their colorful glaze hinting at greater programming productivity. See the faint outline of my "Grande Americano" and ponder at the life bringing warmth and caffiene it provides after a long relaxing weekend.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Jose and Wendy Barton (Jose took Wendy’s last name because we all know she wears the pants in the relationship) for inviting me to their baby shower. They are expecting a baby boy very soon and Wendy hopes it has Jose’s legs, but her intelligence. I whole heartedly agree.

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Three months into 2008 and I’m already behind. Wow that was fast. At least one of the things I can be glad about is the fact that I’m not emo and not in Mexico. With the crazy amount of Anti-Emo rioting going on I’m scared for a few of my friends going down there – even if it is just to Tijuana.

I guess it’s not as bad as that poor Goth girl getting beaten to death by 2 guys simply because she was Goth. Wow, I think it was a lot saner when kids were killing each other over gang affiliations, but now simply out of social groupings I think we’re beginning to have issues here. I can only expect the hipsters to get involved into the fight soon. They’ll hit you with their 6 dollar coffee’s – not that there’s anything wrong with a six dollar cup of coffee (I love coffee).

And as I go back to my 3 dollar Americano, I leave you with this thought – hug a goth person today, it’ll probably brighten up their lives, who knows, maybe they’ll switch to being Emo instead of Goth.

Ahh Jericho, we hardly knew you. Well, sad to say another one of the few shows I watch on television has been canceled. I don’t watch much television these days. The few shows I did enjoy were either canceled or have ended their runs. I can never take Fox seriously now simply because they cancel every show I get into and keep the shows that dumb down Americans – hooray for reality television!

My problem lately has been a lack of things to say. I take it back – a lack of anything new to say. I could write about my nostalgia of an easier, more simple time but that I’ve said ad nauseam. I try to write about things that interest me, things I read in the news or things that pop into my head but I fear that I’m losing something in the translation. I’ve become a bad story teller and I’ve lost my way with words. I forget I’m writing for an audience and start writing simply the things that come into my head. And I think that methodology is beginning to fail me. I’ve lost touch with the way my life was supposed to work.

Perhaps it’s many things – the newness of it all is still settling in. I’m disconcerted with the distance that I’m feeling with my friends and family but at the same trying to find a place in my life that can accommodate it all. I’m putting things aside in the hopes of a different future. Of a future that will help me grow out of the things that haunt my past. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to give up all of the things of my past, I just need to find a way to let my past meet my future and become something of a more solid present. But in the end who am I to say what I’m doing is right. I will probably look back at this a year from now and laugh at my own stupidity. I mean, what else can I do “… get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?”.

Well this has been a pretty crummy week.. first my car, then my suit.. and the final topper – a big fuck you from the Burbank PD to me and my fellow smokers.. well thank you for that.. i’m being treated like a criminal for an act that is entirely legal… in fact you can buy cigarettes at the local convenience stores but not smoke them?.. WTF?… well great.. i hate you too burbank… i’m getting my car fixed… and my suit.. well.. i’m hoping that it can be fixed.. but probably not.. but at least i have the love of the city of burbank burning warmly in my heart…

I hate the fact that california has become such a nanny state.. i pay taxes… fuck i pay a lot of taxes.. and i pay taxes on a product i can barely use.. we say certain people can’t marry and a bunch of other dumb laws put in place under the guises of public care.. wow.. it’s beginning to suck a lot ain’t it.. and so while the police couldn’t even come out to my house when my car was broken into, but can make sure they’re protecting us from the evils of the smoking i guess california’s in good hands.. i just hope that my fine goes to something useful, like giving a councilman a nice raise or making burbank an even “nicer” place to hang out at.. and as the sun rises.. i should get some sleep.. because.. you know.. i need to get my car fixed..