Mar. 1st, 2010

It's March!

Mar. 1st, 2010 11:51 am
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We purchased a new desktop PC the weekend before last, and I was therefore finally able to clean off my MP3 player. For a year or so, I only had access to 300 MB of it, the rest of the available memory locked up in invisible chunks of gawdsknowwhat. Not even formatting helped. However, the situation seems to be resolved now, and I cleaned off all the songs I'd heard a thousand times before, and filled it anew.

So, for example, this morning I was listening to a lot of early Talking Heads. It's rather sparse and unpolished, but quite listenable. I forgot how much I liked the song "I Want to Live," for example, though the lyrics of the song speak more to who I was in 1990 than who I am now.

I want to live
To see the earth turn one more time
I wanna live
To feel a hand that isn't mine
I'm only standing on the shore
I had some fun but I want more
I'll try not to act like I'm so far away
I try to be right in whatever I say
Deeper feelings recur again & again & again & again
A complex spiral leads me to spin...


Ah, to be 16 and convinced that I was going to die when the Antichrist appeared, and me without even having ever kissed a real live girl! On the other hand, Once in a Lifetime now speaks to precisely my situation and age, though I'm not filled to any particular extent with existential angst.

I have a beautiful wife, and a beautiful (well... comfortable) house and I drive a large automobile. And I know how I got here, and it's never caused me to say, "My God! What have I done?" It was a pretty comfortable ride, too, at least once I got out of school. May everyone be so lucky!

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[livejournal.com profile] velvetpage and I will be at Furnal Equinox this weekend, along with special guest star [livejournal.com profile] kores_rabbit. [livejournal.com profile] velvetpage will be selling books, I'll be running games and doing a panel on the history of the fandom. Come one, come all.

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With the death of February (marked in a ceremony by some friends yesterday), I find myself experiencing my annual seasonal rise in energy and creativity. I have a lot of work to do - overdue gaming contracts, household repairs, and the like. Roll on, Spring!

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