| OMG! I'm posting something!!! XD (Blame the NaNo people for my return to LJ, haha) |
[Oct. 30th, 2007|11:05 pm] |
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| | "Mother Superior" -Coheed & Cambria | ] |
( Click here for the long version! XD )
So in summary, getting mugged sucks, NaNoWriMo is going to be kickass-awesome, and No World For Tomorrow by Coheed & Cambria is the most insanely badass and intensely awesome disc of music in the history of rock which completely blow everything else out of the water.
On that final note, with the return to Livejournal, so shall I return to my traditional signature, followed by a random song lyric except.
"Raise your hands high!
Young brothers and sisters
There's a worlds worth of work and a need for you
Oh, the change is coming
Feel these doors now close
Is there no world for tomorrow
If we wait for today?" -Coheed & Cambria, No World For Tomorrow
Honor,
-Bobby
P.S. Kriston--Last time I posted, you said it wasn't long enough to count as a real update after so long...is this long enough of an entry for you? :P XD |
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[May. 19th, 2006|10:01 am] |
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| | Ships And Dragons | ] |
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| |  complacent | ] |
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| | "Mr. Bojangles" -The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | ] |
 | You scored as Spike. You scored as Spike. You feel like you're misunderstood. When you care for others, it's deeper than they'll ever know. Though no one thinks you'll change/pull through, you'll show them.
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| My Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|05:15 am] |
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| | "The Suffering" -Coheed and Cambria | ] |
First off, my home computer is working a bit better, so hopefully I'll be keeping in touch better. And since I've been fairly out of touch for a good while, Annie, Kriston, Laura, etc...you should all leave comments telling me where you're going to school this year and how you've been. :p
Anyhow...
Coheed and Cambria's new album "My Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Vol 1 From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness" totally rocks. "Welcome Home" has a nice, darkly ominous edge to it while the title track is far to cheerful and upbeat musically to be singing about killing and people burning in hell, yet somehow they make it work nicely anyhow. I thought their lyrics were cryptic and confusing before. In the first two albums, lead singer and lyriscist Claudio Sanchez stayed in the perspectives of the characters in the story he's been telling through their songs, but now he jumps randomly between character perspectives and his own perspective as the author of the story, making the lyrics even more cryptic and confusing than on the previous two albums.
My favourite songs on the new album in order are:
"The Suffering"
"Welcome Home"
"From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness"
"Wake Up"
Moving on to other things...
Folk Group retreat is coming around again and I couldn't possibly be more excited! It's been too long since I've had a good retreat. Yes, there was Antioch, but God Skwad just isn't the same as being a full retreat participant, and that had the damper of me getting into a quarrel with a good friend shortly afterwards that lasted for several months. |
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| I hate library computers, but I hate my home pc even more right now |
[Apr. 12th, 2005|05:58 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Neverender" -Coheed & Cambria | ] |
So I probably don't have much time, so this will all be quick, short and rather erratic, but aren't my entries always erratic anyhow?
Anyhow, my band Down With Brown (me - rhythem guitar and backing vocals, my dad - lead guitar, my bro - keyboards, and my cousin's wife - lead vocals) will probably be playing at the May coffee house at St. nicks. Also, Eric and Dan will be playing an all-Coheed set I hear.
Speaking of bands, me Eric and Dan will probably be working on putting some music to the "Chronicles of the Ages Lost Refound" and other similar songs I'm working on this summer. I'm going for a Coheed/Mars Volta sound for these so Dan and Eric will be much better partners for this project than Down With Brown, who seems more interested in doing '70s covers than original material anyhow. I will have some of the lyrics for those new songs posted here as I finish them of course.
And speaking of original material, I finished "Everyone Wants to Be My Friend" a somewhat cheesy, but catchy song about bad luck with girls, but its kinda cool and not cheesy to the point of being a novelty song like leftover lover was. I'll try to get it up here soon. It will hopefully debut at the May coffee house as well.
Honor,
-Bobby
Sarah: Baby, I love you, won't you show me that smile?
Me: Baby, I love you, but even James Harris couldn't break me; you don't stand a chance! |
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| I'm baaaaack..... |
[Mar. 28th, 2005|03:03 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Baker's Daughter" -Subject to Change | ] |
LMAO, I haven't posted on this in so long it took me five minutes to figure out where to go to post an update!
Main reason I haven't been online in ages (as most of you already know) is because my computer is a piece of shit and so most of my internet time comes when I get around to going out to the library.
Anyhow, right now I'm up to to my neck in shit and somehow I'm managing not to stress out, but I'm not sure if that's not simply because I work my way into these situations so often that I'm used to it and can handle it calmly or because I just don't care anymore or what. Anyhow, last night I was backing up real fast leaving from folk group rehearsal, something I like to do when the parking lot behind me is empty. Problem is, it wasn't really as empty as I had thought. There was still a car behind me that I didn't notice because my back window was fogged up and I THOUGHT I had gotten it clear enough to see that nothing was behind me, but apparently not...and guess who's car it was I slammed into? MY DAD'S!!!
On top of that, I've been spending money much faster than I've been making it since I got out of the army, mostly because of bills and such, so I really need a full time job. Fortunately, my tax returns will cover most of my current debt, owed mostly to my parents, but that was BEFORE I hit the car.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Picking back up where I left off...I actually wrote the above portion of this entry last Tuesday, but my time ran out on the library pc and I just got back...
So its now almost a week after the top half of this entry and still no job. I'm really hoping to get this gig with the Virginian Pilot as a Pop Music/Entertainment writer, but it seems a bit of a long shot.
I just bought Coheed and Cambria's "Live At The Starland Ballroom" CD/DVD set. The videos are pretty cool. Maybe I'll finally be able to learn the RIGHT way to play "Three Evils" by watching what Claudio does. But I think it was filmed at the end of a long and rigorous tour though; Claudio's voice is pretty horse, worse than when I saw them at the Norva. He sounded like he might even have been a bit sick.
Also, the videos for "Devil In Jersey City" and "Blood Red Summer" were pretty cool, but "Favor House Atlantic" sucked. "Atlantic" was just your typical cheesy music video with lots of women, performance clips, bars, and REALLY bad lip-syncing. "Devil" and "Summer" were pretty cool though, and they seemed like they might have been related to the story line, especially "Devil."
Sorry this was so long, but I forgot how to do the little "click to read more..." link thing. You know what I'm talking about. Well, I figured it out once, I can do it again; I just can't be arsed to do it NOW.
Oh yeah, James, if you're reading this and you haven't heard yet, Mrs. B. is retiring this summer!
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| The end of a saga |
[Aug. 6th, 2004|11:45 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | CotALR 3: Aftermath | ] |
I have finally finished the lyrics to the suite that preludes the novel I'm writing. Since the first two parts are so far back in my LJ, I included links here to make it easier to reread the first two parts in case anyone wants to:
Chronicles of the Ages Lost Refound I: This Train Keeps Rolling
Chronicles of the Ages Lost Refound II: The Head Explodes
And now, the third and final part of the suite....
Chronicles of the Ages Lost Refound III: Aftermath
Waking from the nightmare just to find that it was real
The horror shocks the senses numbing too much pain to feel
The blackened night is falling as the curtain draws its close
We survived though dead alive with no place left to go
Standing dazed by chaos all around and running wild
The blood flows run in eyes and hide no paths will reconcile
The ice-heart monsters celebrate in bloody revelry
Falling back the failed attackers scatter and run free
Shattered fragments of the empire that once reigned
Drift slowly now across the ruins
Scattered embers from the bonfire that once blazed
Are blowing out and into ruin
Left just a rodent's share
We ought to move on but to where
With no place to go nor a transport to show
And no way to cover the fare
Rebuilding our hearts yearn
For tables to once again turn
The proud human race has been put in its place
A favor we now must return
Winds rain down to snuff the match before the flame grows strong
Darkness envelopes again the night as it grows long
Folly thought that we would be allowed heal and grow
Too strong too soon will mean our doom if enemies should know
The ice-heart monsters celebrate in bloody revelry
As we fall back from the attack and scatter running free
Shattered fragments of the empire that once reigned
Drift slowly now across the ruins
Scattered embers from the bonfire that once blazed
Are blowing out and into ruin
So build blockades to break the winds
We'll light the fire anew
Keep smoke and light beneath the ground
To hide the blaze from view
Small sparks break through to fool the mind
Of Blasting Wind and buy us time
To secretly wait out the storm
Until the flames renew
And changed we shall return
With lessons that we learn
To reclaim our place at the top of all space
And the ice-heart usurpers shall burn! |
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| Private Brown of the United States Army, reporting for duty! |
[Jul. 27th, 2004|09:44 pm] |
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| | Last was "Gotta Get Drunk" by Willie Nelson | ] |
Some of you might have heard from me at church or at Jack's going away party that I'm going to be joining the army. Well its official now. Monday I went to Richmond to take the ASVAB, get my physical, and pick a job. I got a 98 on the ASVAB test, so I was pretty much eligable for every job in the army, save the musician jobs (they require an audition).
I'm going to be a Signal Support Systems Specialist, which means I'll be working with communications equipment. If anyone wants a more detailed description, there is information here and here. I'm getting $50,000 from the Army College Fund that will be good until 10 years after my enlistment ends, and I get a $1000 sign on bonus. I was sworn in and signed my contract yesterday, and I ship out for Boot Camp on September 21 where I'll train to be "An Army Of One"  ("e All You Can Be" sounded infanitly better than "An Army Of One" but whatever   )
My initial enlistment is for 6 years (by my own decision). I'll still be around when I can though. I get 30 days of paid vacation every year, so I'll be back to visit every one occassionaly.
Anyhow, Daniel's here now, the weekend after next we're going to NC for a weekend-long cycling event sponsored by the Tidewater Bicycle Assosiation. Hopefully the riding will help me get in shape for boot camp. The weekend after that I'll be at Karate camp.
The book's coming along good.
Until I have more to report,
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| Various Stuff |
[Jul. 7th, 2004|01:02 pm] |
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| | relaxed | ] |
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| | Last was "Slings and Arrows" by the Moody Blues | ] |
I haven't posted on this in a while, so there's going to be various things mentioned that have little or nothing to do with eachother and are thrown in here in a raandom rather than chronological order. So brace yourself.
This is my last term at ECPI. I've discovered rather painfully that professional programming is totally different from tinking around with small projects for my own use and that its not what I want to do. After this term I'm going to study for an A+ certifacation with my dad and work as an intern helping him at his job for a while and hopefully it will lead to a real job. Or I could just finish my book and get it published. In the meantime, I'm going to keep my job with Sunbelt, but I'm also going to get a job waiting tables at a restuaraunt after this term ends.
Speaking of my book, its coming along fairly well now. I'm actually working on the first chapter of the first book for once. And it has over four pages without a scene break. I'm improving every day.
I got a new bike. Its a road bike and it cost about $630. (No, I didn't pay for it myself) I wrecked it the first day and now the wheel needs realigning.
I'm not ending my entries with song quotes anymore unless I feel like it. Digging up a song excerpt that goes with the entry has been turning more into a chore than fun.
I heard a few of the tracks we recorded for the folk group album. We sound even better than we thought we would. Speaking of albums, Circadian (Eric and Hunter's band) now has a CD out. Everyone should get a copy.
All of my sunglasses have broken INCLUDING THE LEGENDARY GREEN HIPPIE GLASSES, so I bought a new pair at the dollar store yesterday. I will not clip this pair to my pocket and hopefully they won't break. Oh, and I plan to replace the Green Hippie Glasses with an even cooler pair of Red Hippie Glasses.
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| Bacci RULES! |
[Jun. 10th, 2004|10:21 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | last was "Say What You Mean" by the Moody Blues | ] |
If anyone told me I'd have a blast at James's graduation party, I would have said "well, duh" If anyone told me I would do this by walking around his yard throwing one ball at another with seven other people I would have told them they were nuts. Yet they would have been right. People, I've been converted into a Bacci fan. James, Enver: we've got to do this again sometime.
Corona Light with a slice of lime is GOOD. Rob would have IDed me if I tried to get one from the cooler, but I found one someone left sitting around while we were sitting on the steps out front talking. Party was winding down when my dad called looking for me to go home because I had school the next day and it ws nearing midnight. I didn't go to school anyway until Wed this week.
The new job is good, much better than my last one. Not as fun as the construction job was last summer, but nowhere near as draining and the pay is better. It just seemed so wasteful to have to throw away an entire pitcher of perfectly good beer at the end of the night, but I had nothing to take any home in and I doubt they would have let me anyhow.
The Moody Blues concert was awesome. I was mildly dissapointed that they didn't bring an orchestra this year, but they still ruled. You could say it was a concert from my Wildest Dreams. :p ;)
Keep the Bacci Balls flying!
"When the music plays
And when the words are touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear a sound I have to follow
Once upon a time"
-The Moody Blues, In Your Wildest Dreams
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| Bye Bye McDonald's |
[May. 28th, 2004|02:19 pm] |
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| | excited | ] |
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| | "Thick As A Brick" (the full 43:50 version) -Jethro Tull | ] |
A week from tommorow (Sat June 5th) I work my first shift at my new job!
And when I get home today (I'm actually at school on a Friday!) I'm bringing my uniforms over to McDonald's and announcing that I'm quitting! Life is good.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot! The folk group finished recording our album last Wednsday! And I got the last solo verse on "Sing Hey for the Carpenter" :) I can't wait to hear this album. Its gonna totally rock!
"The Poet and the Painter casting shadows on the water
As the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea
The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other
As the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed...
...And the poet lifts his pen while soldier sheaths his sword"
-Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| A few quick rhetorical questions WHILE I BEAT MY FRIGGIN HEAD AGAINST THE WALL... |
[May. 20th, 2004|11:25 am] |
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| | working | ] |
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| | "Helm's Deep" -Howard Shore, soundtrack to The Two Towers | ] |
1) WHY must I always procrastinate with everything until I have so little time left that something real easy and simple becomes overwhelming? I should have had EVERYTHING done DAYS AGO had I been working on it all along! But no, I had to WASTE ALL MY TIME and not get anything done! Damn me, damn me, damn me!
2) and HOW am I going to get ALL THIS SHIT DONE by the end of the day tommorow? Easy stuff, but LOTS of it!
3) and the biggest question is, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME POSTING IN MY LIVEJOURNAL WHEN I'M ALREADY OVERLOADED WITH WORK AS IT IS?!?!?
"Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it"
-Styx, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Hey, I really like that lyric excerpt. That could apply to almost anything, not just my lagging school work. And it sounds really cool the way they sing it in the song too. I should like, make it my new motto or something.
Alright, time to get my sorry ass back to failing...I mean time to GET UP, GET BACK ON MY FEET! I'M THE ONE THEY CAN'T BEAT AND I KNOW IT! COME ON, LET'S SEE WHAT I'VE GOT! I'LL JUST TAKE MY BEST SHOT AND (hope to God that) I WON'T BLOW IT! YEAH! Damn, I really do waste too much time on here.
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| Doh! |
[May. 19th, 2004|01:05 pm] |
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| | "Your Song" -Elton John | ] |
I don't know how I forgot to mention this the other day, but I got my pictures back from Prom and the coffee house! And they mostly came out good! Woohoo!
"Kodachrome
Gives us those nice bright colors
Gives us the greens of summer
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take photographs
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away"
-Paul Simon, Kodachrome
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| "Take it easy, Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy" -The Eagles |
[May. 17th, 2004|10:03 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Seasons" -Good Charlotte | ] |
So today I woke up feeling incompetant, miserable, overwhelmed, and all around emo. As the morning progressed, I was just feeling worse. I was in the middle of wondering why I seem to love wallowing in self-pity so much when "Seasons" happened to come on (rather predictable since I was listening to a Good Charlotte CD, but I wasn't paying much attention to the music until it came on). "Seasons" was a talk song from my first Antioch retreat. I played it about three times through and now I feel great. Thank God for Antioch. I need that occasional reminder that everything will work out fine if I just stop worrying so much.
Yesterday I bought a Styx music video DVD from Walmart. Good stuff overall; some of the videos were a bit cheesey, but then most music videos are.
And I FINALLY got a copy of "X-Wing 2: Wedge's Gamble" from the new Barnes and Nobles yesterday!!!! I'm now plunging my way through a reread of "X-Wing 1: Rogue Squadron" to refresh my memory before I start the second book.
And my classes are EASY so I should have no problem catching up by the end of the day thursday! And I'm going to be out of McDonald's soon! And making more money! And the Rush concert is coming up soon! And the Moody Blues and Styx and Peter Frampton next month! And I'm probably taking a term off from school this summer! And the folk group is RECORDING AN ALBUM! And that's just plain awesome! And hey--life really doesn't suck so long as I'm not telling myself it does!
"If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it's easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
and it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues"
-Elton John, Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| This is the only hit song about CANNIBALISM to ever crack the Top 40! :p |
[May. 12th, 2004|12:28 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Timothy" -The Buoys | ] |
So last night's sugar high apparently kicked back in at full stregnth when I (finally) woke up this morning, even though I only made it to the last 15 minutes of class. I was up half the night because I had enough sugar in me to make a ginger bread man envious. Plus I had the phone clipped to my pants hoping Kriston would call back even though I knew she wouldn't call past 11 on a school night, lol. That gas station needs to find a semi-compitant night manager. :p
Oh yes. I THINK I'VE GOT MYSELF A NEW JOB AS A BANQUET STAFFER!!!!! I'm moving up in the world. :p $8/hour baby! And I GET TO MAKE MY OWN SCHEDULE, SO NO MORE MCDONALDS FUCKING IT UP!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!
I've got some real cramming to do to get all my school work caught up by the end of the term...like I do every term. But this time I'm going to try something new, say oh, actually getting it done. Because I love C and I love C++ even more and this course is on C++. And because I need to get my GPA back up. Old Crow whiskey is good; I need to get some. Aaron Allston is funny as hell. Yub, yub commander. Lt. Kettch reporting for duty. Over and out Connecticut. Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine, peace out. :p
Toooooo hyper! And I haven't even drinked anything stronger than a glass of Coke.
(yes, I said drinked. I wasn't sure if drank or drunk was the right word so I went with something I know is wrong! :p) Okay, time to go drain my bank account, yeppers. Or maybe later, I've got to be at work at 2 because the assholes a McDonalds scheduled me wrong AGAIN! Oh well, won't be there much longer anyhow!
...ok, I'm done. :p
"This comlink's lost it's frequency
And I feel that we're coming home short
Here take me instead, I'd rather not see her off alone
Tonight we storm, tonight"
-Coheed and Cambria, Cuts Marked In The March Of Men
Honor,
-Bobby |
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| Irresponsibility |
[May. 11th, 2004|12:57 pm] |
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| | busy | ] |
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| | "Let's Spend The Night Together" -The Rolling Stones | ] |
So I just spent my entire algebra class writing Star Wars fan fiction. Next week I'm gonna have to really buckle down and get caught up. And I'm supposed to be at work at 2 today, but I have a job interview with Sunbelt Banquets at 2. So I'm calling in and saying I had to stay late at school today and couldn't make it in to work on time. True enough, the interview is at school...
There will be a song excerpt or quote here later :p
Honor,
-Bobby |
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[May. 10th, 2004|12:24 pm] |
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| | crazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | None - I accidently left my headphones at home :( | ] |
So Saturday night, I had just said goodnight to Annie and was doing the finishing touches on the LJ entry about being bored and tired when Kriston IMs me and says to call her...and it was already midnight. And suddenly I'm neither tired nor bored. That was a fun conversation. Thank you Kriston, for adding a bit of interestingness to an otherwise dull evening! 
(Kriston, call me when you get home from school if you see this, or if you don't I'll assume you didn't see this and I'll call you. Either way, we're going to talk on the phone today)
"When I get lonely, and I’m sure I’ve had enough
She sends her comfort, comin’ in from above
Don’t need no letters at all
We’ve got a thing that’s called a Radar Love
We’ve got a line in the sky"
-Golden Earring, Radar Love
Honor,
-Bobby |
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[May. 8th, 2004|11:40 pm] |
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| | bored | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Too Much Time On My Hands" -Styx (oh the irony :P ) | ] |
Yesterday: work until 7:00. Then I come home and read until about 3:00 am. Then I go to sleep
This morning: I wake up at 7:00 (after a mere four hours of sleep) and get ready for some bike-riding event we (meaning me and my family) are supposed to be participating in. I get there and suddenly find out I can't where headphones during the event..which turns out to be riding around streets such as Dam Neck, Indian River Raod, and just about everything in between WITHOUT TRAFFIC BEING BLOCKED OFF! So after I've gone about three miles, into the wind, on very little sleep, with cars shooting by at 55 miles an hour a few inches to my left and no music to keep me from growing bored too quickly, I completely forgot why I wanted to come in the first place and just rode my bike back to the house rather than following the planned route. Then I go to my regular noon and 1:00 karate classes in which nothing interesting was happening. Get home, get online for a little while, then off to work.
This evening: I've spent sitting here staring dully at the computer while my internet time slips by and nothing of interest whatsoever is happening. Oh well. I guess I'll go read until I can't keep my eyes open any more. I've got nothing better to do. No one seems able to carry a conversation with me tonight and its only a matter of time until my dad realizes my internet time has run out. Meh! Overbearing parents. :/
Damn! I was gonna post an excerpt from a convo I had with Annie about sleep and boredom in lieu of my usual lyric excerpt, but I accidently closed out the window and lost it!
Oh wait...
Bobbacca: do you still have the same window open as before?
SiKO stalker144: yeah..
Bobbacca: resend me the first few lines of this convo...
problem solved!
Bobbacca: What's up?
SiKO stalker144: not much
SiKO stalker144: i'm contemplating sleep
Bobbacca: sleep is for the weak....or the bored :-P
SiKO stalker144: haha
SiKO stalker144: i am both
...a little later...
Bobbacca: well, I guess I'm weak too :-P
Bobbacca: see you around
Honor,
-Bobby |
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