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Sometimes love works out great and both parties fall madly in love and they get married and have lots of little children running around the house. Sometimes love just gets you kicked in the head. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I’ve never been good at dealing with death. It’s just not in me. I remember the first time I learned of it - I was very young and my dad told me that an uncle of his had passed away. I remember later when my grandmother died on my birthday I wasn’t told until the next day. I guess at first I thought I was angry at being kept in the dark about it, but I think now that it’s just my first reaction. I get angry - that’s not even the right word, I get angry when people drive like idiots and cut me off, I get frustrated when I have to explain the same thing over and over again, I get annoyed when it seems like one thing after another just goes wrong. This is different. This is rage - pure, simple, indiscriminant rage. I feel as though an explosion is contained within my chest, and I cannot release it for fear of the possibly devastating consequences.

This is not good for me.

a couple posts down… see that part where I said I was having trouble keeping a smile off my face? Yeah I think my face may have gotten stuck that way. Such a delicious feeling this thing, having been well and truly ensnared. I can’t complain though, I’m enjoying my new found captivity. Oh yeah and there’s this too: 97 days until Mexico. Life is good.

So yeah… this has been offline for a week or so now. So has my photo gallery. Everything is back online now. Apparently MySQL doesn’t like it when you upgrade the server software. I don’t get it. If the new version wasn’t intended to be upgraded to, then why release it AS AN UPGRADE? Oh well… back to work now…

“I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

How odd, I’ve often heard that one never finds what one is looking for until the search is given up. I don’t really know that I gave up looking, but I had definitely relegated that particular search to the proverbial back burner when seemingly the very thing I had been looking for came knocking at my door. I’ll have to wait and see how this plays out, only time will tell, but I know this much: I’m having trouble trying to keep a smile off my face today.

“I think you should post something now. You made a big deal about it, then you only enter a couple of entries in like a year and a half worth of time. What gives?”

A good friend of mine up and decided to quit his job and take a bus on a north american tour. He keeps a blog about his adventures over at www.roadtrip20.com. It’s a really neat idea and more than anything I’m wishing right now that I could have taken a leave of absence from work and gone with him. Just seeing the entire country and genuinely being a modern day explorer would be the most awesome experience I can think of…

Well, perhaps my time will come. Who can say when or why wanderlust strikes, but I think I’m coming down with a bad case. Wish I could be partying it up all over the continent with you Alexi.

-Tony

So I was asked to write another entry because apparently some of my many many tens of readers have demanded it, quite rudely I might say, of me. I don’t really have anything pressing to write about, so this will be in the nature of a brief update on my life.

Since the Spurs won, I’ve been to New Orleans for a bachelor party, to Baton Rouge for the wedding, I’ve completed the satellite TV setup in my house, I’ve cut the grass more times than I care to count, my promotion to Network Operations Supervisor was finalized, I’ve been on 2 first dates, I’ve started playing golf again, and I am seriously considering buying a new car - I think I want one of the new Altima 07’s, specifically the 3.5 SL.

I’ve been playing lately with google apps, and I’ve moved a couple of my domains over there for e-mail hosting.. Due to the feature set, the anti-spam capabilities, and the ease of setup and use, not to mention the reliability, I’m seriously considering moving all of my domains to their infrastructure, but don’t worry, updates will be sent out via e-mail before I overhaul the entire system.

Well, I’d write more, but I’ve got stuff to do. Back to work for me.

-Tony

I still don’t know what to say about last nights game save, “Wow.” The Spurs pulled out a key win against the Suns in last night’s game 5 of a best of 7 series taking a 3 to 2 lead over Phoenix. Looks like we’ll be playing game 6 tomorrow evening in San Antonio and hopefully I won’t have as stressful a time watching that game as I did the last.

As a Spurs fan I find myself feeling a small measure of guilt for what happened at the end of game 4. While I don’t think it was Robert Horry’s intent to cause injury to Steve Nash, I think the foul was regrettable and clearly more than was necessary. The frustration felt by fans and players alike, does not excuse what happened. I don’t think there’s anything more that needs be said about it.

I’ll be watching game 6 tomorrow night and hopefully we can put Phoenix away and move on.