Long weekend

Ah, return to normalcy. It's always strange to come back to regular schedules after traveling. It was a good visit to family tho. Always a struggle to make sure we connect with all the many branches of our relations. We did pretty well. It's an awesome site to see all zillion of us in one place. Like a Mini-family reunion. I was gonna add some pictures from the trip onto the webpage but my computer at home was dismantled when I awoke this morning, so that will have to wait a bit. Until then I shall make do with emailing this in from work.

Wasn't a long enough trip for things to feel awkward on return. The house felt the same, and I still remembered all my passwords at work. I think it's really cool that all it takes to visit my fam out in SLC is a long weekend. Next time tho I'm gonna try for a whole week and some airplane tickets. Much comfier than a 13 hour drivc. Heh, on the last bit of our drive we took a wrong turn and ended up on a twisty turny road 66 miles long. Still got us home in the long run. Yay. Well that's all for now. Hopefully my computer will be in one piece when I get home so I can get my pictures on it.

Murphy's law of fate

So...
I awoke this morning to my brother pounding on my door,wanting a ride to work. Apparently his car mysteriously just wouldn't start this morning. Not a problem to take him to work but a little disconcerting considering this is the car we were going to make our trip to SLC in. I have a car too, but because we were going to take his, I've been putting off getting brakes fixed until after the trip. So.. Once I was awake I called my local mechanic guy, he said to just drop in and see what it would take to get those to stop squeaking. Turns out won't be too much so all is well. Except we still don't know about the caddy. I guess we'll see.

Just a litle story.

A small leaf, drifts from a tree, glides through sunlit air, into the glittering water below.
It nestles btwn two river rocks, smoothed to slickness, by time and slow carress of running water.
A wandering dewdrop fairy , hopping from stone to stone, happens upon the lonely leaf, and steps inside its catepillar marked edges.

Having found the perfect napping place, the fairy happily falls asleep, blanketed by the glowing sun.
The afternoon saunters by, dripping the humidty of high summer, every thing for a moment is still, but in its sleep, the fairy shivers, a chill breeze crawling across its skin.

Dark clouds edge slowly into view, steadily marching over the sun's domain, the forest below is painted shades of grey.
A sudden cascade of rain pushes the leaf from its resting place, the dewdrop fairy awakens to find itself adrift in the river's sudden rage.

The wind echos the cackle of Winter's glee, merry in this short victory over summer's blaze.
The bedraggled little fairy huddles in the center of the leaf, trying to be as still as can be, while the leaf valiently struggles against the river's blows.

With its last bit of energy the leaf leaps through the sodden air, over the churning water below, to find itself safe, if upside down, on the muddy banks.

The dewdrop fairy, shaken but none the worse for wear , takes strings of grass and ties down the leaf, together they wait out the storm.

And finally, fingers of sunlight come reaching through the broken remnants of the storm, their warmth tickling the fairy from under the leaf.

With a radient smile, the dewdrop fairy unties the leaf, gently rolls it up and together they meander away into the sun gilded afternoon.

an end to possibilities

I found out today that a friend of mine has died. He'd been in a motorcycle wreck about a week ago but had been recovering steadily, until apparently , he destabilized and died sometime this morning. I hadn't seen him in a while, ran into him every now and then around town. He was an awesome guy and fun to hang out with, but he'd recently quit from work so i didn't see him very much anymore. The weirdest thing occured to me too, and i'm still not sure how i feel about it. I'm really not sad for him that he's dead... if that makes sense. I'm pretty certain that there's more out there after this, and good or bad, he's got new adventures to go have now. No, mostly i was sad cause now there's no more possibilites that i'll go to club and he'll be at the table near the door, or that i'll drop by shari's and he'll be there with his girlfriend. Before, even if i never actually ran into him for the rest of my life, there was still the chance it could happen. Now there isn't any. I guess that's mostly what all the sadness is about, the end of possibility. No more conversations, no chance meetings, no laughter, or sadness to be shared. Just done.
And just to get my opinion out there, Motorcycles are dumb.

dowloading frustration

So, yet another heated discussion in my house about downloading things , such as tv shows, off the internet at my house tonight. Honestly i understand the copyright infringement issue , but i also really don't know what the major companies expect to happen when they don't provide something similar online to offset completely unregulated downloading. I wouldn't mind paying a fee to download an episode or something like that. Really seems like rather than move with the times, our studios refuse to acknowledge the presence of evolving technology , and rather than embrace it, try to ignore and combat what will always be a losing battle. i like the idea of being able to download episodes and seasons while waiting for the official dvd. I'm still gonna buy the official dvd cause i like having the pkging that comes with and all the little extras as well. and also i believe in supporting the things i enjoy. Sadly i guess tho that i will just have to deal with the realities of our incompetent studio owners , who refuse to offer me an online service to enjoy.

annnny way..... that's all i guess. it's late and in the morning i have to go deal with finding all my files on a new computer at work.