by graduation, i’m confident that BusterTheDog could potentially pass any med board exam.

…in fact, I’m fairly certain he’s at LEAST as knowledgeable as the slowest kid in my class.

she’s a keeper.

thank you all for such an amazing birthday and making life just plain awesome.

still, some days are better than others and for the first time since december 19th, 2006 i’m celebrating life-changing-professional-awesomeness.

it’s been a long 3.5 years, but i’m still here and the universe has relented.

“Today”
Originally Posted 12/19/2006

both professionally and personally, today is one of the best days of my life. more details to follow, until then celebrate w/ me and enjoy ‘today’

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god i love world cup…and the british…and their goalie…b/c god knows a “draw” was huge win for Team US Soccer.

we’ll take it, bitches!

next match is Friday the 18th at 7am PST versus Slovenia.

:: a song ::

:: a friend to all ::

:: exhale ::

:: watchful ::

:: stand out (however possible) ::

:: considering all options ::

“you mean the 2005 that happened 5 years ago?” I asked.

it turns out that the records of this particular experiment were lost in a freak windows-pc-computer-meltdown-blue-screen-of-hell-fuckup.

after a few minutes of trying to resolve the missing dates in my head, i fired up the blog. a few minutes later, i was able to fill her in on the details of the missing timeline thanks to the archives and flickr’s photostream. had i blogged about the experiment? no. but i had posted about events orbiting the periphery of my “real” life and that was enough to put two and two together.

this is the closest my blog/flickrstream has come to serving a real-life-purpose.

so all day i’ve been thinking that the highlights of my life for the past SIX years are chronicled online and reside peacefully in the digital-ether.

that’s why we’re all doing this digital-presence-stuff, right?

the more i share the closer i get to living forever. in a sense, i’m passing on my experiences to the world with each seemingly-irrelevant twitter update, each mal-focused flickr post and even this very blog entry.

indeed, i’m satisfying my evolutionarily-programmed-need to reproduce each time i click “post“.

who needs offspring when you’ve got the internet? i’m officially calling for a new campaign to end overpopulation and unnecessary pregnancies:

“don’t breed—blog”

so why do you do all of this?

she woke up first. before i knew it she was dressed and ready to kill that damn elliptical machine—and she did.

i staggered behind with grumbling-contempt; anything less would have been out of character.

walking out of the bathroom—toothbrush in mouth—i saw buster peaking out from under the covers.

content to only catch a peek of the nonsense going on so early on a saturday morning, he would wait for the clang of his food bowl and rattle of the can opener to commit to an early morning wake-up call.

these two are what make my life such an amazing place and when they do the things that are simply “them” i feel the most at home.

there were so many times this weekend that i would look over at her and find myself needing to catch my breath; sitting on the couch, hair twirling around her finger, buster safe-and-warm in her lap.

this is my waking life and i have no idea what i’ve done to be so damn lucky.

so on saturday night, i met up with my buddy nick b/c he’s decided that life in socal has gotten boring and so he’s headed to the mid-west where he will—undoubtedly—become wildly successful and that’s good because if there’s one thing i’m good at it’s having friends who do an amazing job at life.

so we met up on saturday evening and hung out until we were good-and-ready to go home and roamed from joint-to-joint, remembering good times along the way.

apparently, word had gotten out that it was nick’s last night in socal, b/c downtown redlands was in the celebratory mood and they did not disappoint.

socal will miss you, nick, and so, i want to tell you…just…just…keep on truckin’