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on friday, nick bott and i went to santa barbara in search of one trent wiesen. at the time, of course, we didn’t realize that our search would be futile. we were naive, overly sanguine–as youths such as ourselves are wont to be. trent, a friend of ours, had invited us to road trip down to his place (a 5 hour trip) for the weekend. the invitation happened some time ago (to our eventual frustration), but only on wednesday night did we decide to accept it; i rented a buick regal from enterprise and we planned our drive for late friday evening. friday evening came quickly, and nick and i made our preparations. sooner or later one of us realized that we needed to call trent and let him know we were coming down. i called his house 3 times that night, with nothing but the answering machine: “hello, you’ve reached the wiesens, please leave a message. beep”. ...

welcome to my new home. sit down, listen to the minidisc player, and get knighted. or, search for deeper meaning….and leave a comment with your interpretation.

altimar III was everything i’d hoped it would be, albeit in some unexpected ways. still, it was the best altimar yet, and certainly the smoothest to date. here’s to altimar, guys, and i can’t wait to see where we end up next year for altimar IV! ep98-02:true

i am leaving today for orlando. and tomorrow it begins: ALTIMAR III. one of the best weekends of the year, if not the best. it will be nearly impossible to top altimar i and altimar ii, but trends like this can’t be stopped by mere impossibility. i wonder what is in store for us this time.

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i am now officially back from my blog-vacation. not that i ever intended to take one in the first place, but this is what happened: in short, my life became a very interesting mix of the insanely boring and the insanely busy. now, in normal times and under normal conditions, i would only experience one of these extremes at a time; the rest of the day or week or month would be smoothed out by a moderate balance. not so these last two weeks–i have been riding the pendulum daily in a rollercoaster-like arc. ...

so. bored. and. lazy. somebody rescue me, it’s friday night.

i am randomly heading to orange county this weekend (i.e., now). california, this time. see you there.

last week i worked 50 hours. not much time left over for thought. but i did learn something. a very sad and sobering something. it is this: in my life i have yet to experience the power of true action. i realized that what i have been experiencing is passion, in the philosophical sense: being acted upon. in other words, i have felt the power of emotion, felt the power of joy and sorrow and the fantastic intermingling thereof with nostalgia, etc… ...

july enters. now come the heavy dog days. to complement the blog dog days. for some reason that makes me think of logalogalogalogalog and efrafa, hlessil-rah and salamandastron. weird.