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Off to CB for six days of holiday celebration. Merry Christmas, SG-land.

Fantastic last few days without serious emotional roller coasters or gut wrenching hangovers.

Saw the Tom Cruise Samurai movie Thurs night and thought it was a blast. Plenty of nods to Kuroswa and awesome battle sequences, only marred by a shitty Hollywood ending.

Went out to dinner with Maeve on Friday night and home by 10. She also proved a willing 3rd party to finally...
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Amazon.com just sent me an email that 'Vanishing Point' is coming to DVD on February 4. Wonder what ever happened to that freaky guy from Des Moines who wrote The Whistling Song?

Finally getting over this serious fucking head cold that's been dogging me the last week or so. Now I just gotta shake this shih tzu.

She's my post to leeeeeean onnnnn and I just cut her dowwwwn

Listening to Dinosaur Jr's 'Bug' for the first time in god know's how long. I can see why it moved me the way it did so many years ago.

Not much too say around here lately. I seem to be developing a groove that may just pull me through the impending winter. Here's to that...

I'm probably the only person in the world more likely to order a Domino's pizza at 1 am when I'm stone sober. There's a pretty good chance I'm gonna regret this decision.

Oh well. I bought new running shoes yesterday and they feel great.

Spent the past couple of days re-immersed in phone company hell. Finally had to take the afternoon off to get it resolved. The guy who came out says the real problem actually resides in the wires that run from my building to the next major street, but nothing can be done to solve that until all of the quick-fix methods have been tried. So there's...
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"I'll tell you one thing that I know
you don't face your demons down
You gotta grapple 'em Jack
and pin 'em to the ground"
Joe Strummer

Things I did this weekend:
-Watched a bunch of episodes of Band of Brothers (inspired to do so by these letters I was just given that were written by my grandfather while serving in WWII.) Powerful stuff.
-Rented...
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Two recent reality checks- the Aesop Rock show with Trocc that didn't happen and the visit from my mother where I realized how much healthier she was living than me (plus that fact that she mentioned I was looked just my dad at this age and in my mind he was always fat).
What seems important right now is:
Drinking less
Eating better
Exercising
Making...
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...breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out,...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.......
Deeeeeeeeeep sigh.