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2006 3 November :: 12.47am
God I'm a nerd.
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
US Geography: 150 of 150
Africa: 141 of 162
Asia: 84 of 87
Australia: 22 of 24
Canada: 35 of 39
Caribbean: 42 of 66
Central America: 41 of 42
China: 40 of 93
Europe: 107 of 111 (damn former states of Yugoslavia)
Mexico: 29 of 96
Middle East: 85 of 87
Oceania: 57 of 96
South America: 39 of 39
World: 33 of 33
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2006 15 October :: 2.01am
After 22 years of waiting.
WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2006 6 October :: 6.29pm
Finally here!
http://www.burtonwedding.weddingherald.com
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2006 3 October :: 9.39am
I don't care is we win the division or not. If we would have made it to the ALCS, everyone would still be picking the Yankees. I am now starting to gain more respect for what Red Sox fans have to endure.
The Yankees are a bunch of over-pampered overpaid jerks. The onyl thing they have to worry about is if there MVP thridbaseman has a mental issue with throwing.
The national media ignored us for the first three months of the season. They said we would blow it. Well, guess what, we didn't blow. Sure, we lost the division by one friggin' game to the Twins. So What!! No one even picked us to win 90 games, let alone lead the division for the majority of the season.
The experts be damned. I saw one where the Tigers were ranked dead last in starting pitching and bullpen out of the four teams in the American League. Who lead all of baseball in starting pitching this year? That was us. Not the damned Yankees, not the Twins who have nothing behind Santana. Who's bullpen has better guys in it than ours (we've had our moments, but you can't tell me that Scott Proctor is better than Joel Zumaya)? I saw one that had Robinson Cano being a better second baseman than Placido Polanco. There is a blatant piece of east coast biased bull I've ever seen.
We had to prove ourselves during the season, now everyone is going to make us prove it again in the postseason. And we will.
DS Tigers over Yankees 3-1 A's over Twins 3-2 Padres over Cardinals 3-0 Dodgers over Mets 3-2
CS Tigers over A's 4-2 Dodgers over Padres 4-1
WS Tigers over Dodgers 4-3
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2006 19 September :: 10.23am
After spending a significant amount of time this morning reconnecting with my network (catching up on friends page and going to facebook), I realize how relatively important that all of this was to me nearly a year ago. I put my life back together online. I hate to admit it, but Mica and I would never had even started talking had I had to meet her in real life to begin with. And look how fantastically that has turned out.
But now, now my life on here does not seem so important. Maybe it's because I've fallen back into my old habits, as far as just using it to maintain knowledge of all of you. Yes, I do, I read, very detailed entries, so just remember that when you keep going on about things. But I really think the reason is that I have a life outside of this. I can keep up with my friends, but I don't need to be intimately involved anymore because I have a life outside of this. I wonder if there is any research on this as far as people retreating to the internet in times of depression or lonliness. Hmmmm.............
But anywho. I've decided to try an make this a long entry, just to punish you all.
Stress is starting to get to me, but I don't want to talk about it because I just have to get perspective on work. Once I do that and realize that they are not paying me enough to stress out over little things like the stuff I get upset about, I'll be fine. It's kind of like those nights that I used to come home from Monday night practice, extremely tired, but also still wound up from rehearsal. I used to fall into a half-sleep state where I was in a dream, but back on the field. Until I could actually get some good sleep I would have to convince myself in this dream state to put down my Tuba and lay down at the back of the field and fall asleep. Then I would be fine. It's just a matter of perspective.
I got a weird call last week. Thursday night at work my dad called me and said that he had gotten a rather strange phone call from a guy who was looking for a bass player. This guy was a completely stranger and he got my name from a guy that I haven't seen in about three years. Anyways, his bass player had quit on him and he had a party to play this weekend. He wanted me to come play with his band cold. I'd never met the guy, never played with anyone in his band. I didn't even know what kind of music they played. We talked a couple of times on the phone, he told me where the party was and I showed up. Kind of a weird circumstance. I've had weird things happen all because of music, but this was the strangest. We played, at the end of the second set (I didn't know many of their songs, and I faked it, some good others really bad), my amp started to cut out. They had to go get another amp for me to play through. I felt really bad. One of the things you don't wanted to happen when you're playing with a bunch of new people is for your equipment to not work. They got me another amp and by that time it was around 11:30pm. They, the rest of the guys in the band, had given up on playing anything that they had on their song list. WHich is good, because some of the stuff was a little complex, not the kind of music you want to play on the fly. So we tossed around ideas and started playing some of the simplest songs that they knew. That set ended up rocking. Up to that point I didn't really have a good feeling about the night. I started to think that maybe i was just out of it. I hadn't played in awhile, I might just have lost what I had. But I didn't. We played stuff that I knew and that was easy and we really fell into a groove. It was awesome. I haven't had that experience all summer. So it was a good time.
Okay, well now I think I've bored you enough with the mindless details of my life. So now that you've read all that pointless crap, I will say good bye.
Good Bye.
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2006 1 September :: 10.06am
Does anyone have pics of my wedding?
My pro pics are not back yet and I am going crazy.
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2006 16 August :: 3.25pm
and this too...
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2006 16 August :: 3.10pm
I GOT A REAL JOB!
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2006 15 August :: 3.22pm
Something I realized today driving home. I was listening to NPR (yes, I'm a nerd, get over it), and they were talking about Cuban-Americans and the way that the Cuban-American community feels about Castro's illness. Anyway, none of that is important other than to say that the new Cuban Americans, the children of the original population, the ones who were wronged (or righted depending on your perspective) by the new regime, are somewhat apathetic and non-political. It made me realize the penance of our generation. The obesity, the sloth, the lack of work ethic, I realized where it all came from.
The penance of our generation is that we have lost all interest. We have given into the machinations of man, the construction of society. Without knowing anything else other than freedom, with no direct oppression to fight, we choose apathy in a society where no choice is a choice. When choosing not to participate is just as valid as participation. If we only do what we have to in order to get by, we'll be just fine mentality. No inspiration, just talking puppets. Now how to fix that? How do you inspire the uninspirable? How do we take control of our own destiny? It's a question that every generation has to address, we can't let the answer be silent like so many of our voices still remain.
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2006 15 August :: 3.08pm
:: Music: "Save Yourself" Sense Field
I've written factually. I've written from my heart. I've also written the crap of everyday life. But I've never written just to write. Just for the pure joy of putting thoughts on paper. For illustrating the great illusions (or delusions) of my mind. For once I'd like to do that, but I don't know how.
Sometimes I realize how much I've grown as a person over these five long years. Why five years? Well, it's easy for my to quantify. For almost five years now I have had the same job. What makes me so reflective you ask? (well, actually I ask, not because I want to know, I already know, but because I want you to know). No, a girl who I used to work with has reapplied for her job. So long ago it was. More than three years ago she left. Three years!!! Beyond making me shudder because I hate having worked there for so long, it is a reason to pause and think. I just think about how much I've grown in that five years.
Let's see. Five years ago, who was I? I know most of you know who I was. Have I changed? I'd like to think I have. Not in any of the important ways. I feel like I am remarkably more aware of the world. I feel more sure about myself now, but that is only momentary. That is a relatively new occurrence. I feel more breadth in my knowledge. I feel I know the system much better (what system you ask? The whole system, that thing underneath all of society that we call adulthood, I know the system much better). I feel more compassionate, but also more powerless. I have more faith in myself, but less faith in others. I have more faith in ordinary things than extraordinary things than I did five years ago. I feel less guilty, but I have more guilt. I know things that I shouldn't and don't know things that I should. Enough about me.
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2006 9 August :: 4.58pm
Updating is fun.
Okay, so we set a date. I'm not going to post it because if you want to know you'll have to work very hard to track me down. Admit it, I'm a difficult person to get a hold of.
I also now have a cell phone. A phone that I am not allowed to use. My number is also secret. So your all going to have to work to find out my secrets.
More updates later, I hope.
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2006 30 July :: 6.05pm
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2006 28 July :: 11.45am
i had forgotten how fun this is...
Describe yourself using ONE BAND and only SONG TITLES from that band
Band :: Ben Folds
Are you male or female :: Zak and Sara
Describe yourself :: The Luckiest
How do some people feel about you :: You to Thank
How do you feel about yourself :: Not The Same
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend :: Gone
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend (husband) :: Sentimental Guy
Describe where you want to be :: Rockin the Suberbs
Describe what you want to be :: Fired
Describe how you live :: Still Fighting It
Describe how you love :: Trusted
Share a few words of wisdom :: Give Judy My Notice
Band :: Barenaked Ladies
Are you male or female :: I'll Be That Girl
Describe yourself :: Alternative Girlfriend
How do some people feel about you :: Never is Enough
How do you feel about yourself :: Some Fantastic
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend :: Long Way Back Home
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend (husband) :: Falling for the First Time, I Love You
Describe where you want to be :: The Old Apartment
Describe what you want to be :: Celebrity
Describe how you live :: Off the Hook
Describe how you love :: It's All Been Done
Share a few words of wisdom :: This Is Where It Ends
Band :: Cat Stevens
Are you male or female :: Kitty
Describe yourself :: (I Never Wanted To) Be A Star
How do some people feel about you :: The Tramp
How do you feel about yourself :: Oh Very Young
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend :: I Love Them All
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend (husband) :: Here Comes My Baby
Describe where you want to be :: Home In The Sky, Miles From Nowhere
Describe what you want to be :: Here Comes My Wife
Describe how you live :: I Wish, I Wish
Describe how you love :: Wild World
Share a few words of wisdom :: If You Wanna Sing Out, Sing Out
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2006 24 July :: 10.00pm
So I'm sitting here at Mica's and we're looking for wedding music.
Today she listened to some of the classic songs, and she didn't like them. I too think the traditional stuff is just a little too stuffy for us. Does anyone have any good ideas on wedding music for the cermemony itself. We will be good on reception music, due to our unique and diverse musical taste.
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2006 24 July :: 8.19pm
Best Paul Quote Ever:
"I've been in love with you for so long that I'm starting to understand country music!"
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