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Tonight I'm posting from my living room. At first glance, this may seem insignificant, but it is not. I have always been just a couple of steps be hind the high-tech times (I refused to have a cell phone until 2001, I didn't own my own computer until 2004, and I didn't get an MP3 player until about a year ago). Eventually, I always come around, but it usually takes me just a little bit longer than it takes everyone else to take advantage of technological advances. Basically, it works like this: A new technology will come out, and I'll say "Why would I want to do it that way?" Then, after a few years, when I see how easy everybody else has it after taking advantage of the new technology, I cave in and go get me some.

So with all of this in mind, it should be no surprise that, while I've had my laptop since 2004, I just now got around to hooking up a wireless router and buying a wireless card. And now that I've done it, I'm very excited about it. I can totally envision getting so much more done now that I can do it all while parking my ass on my couch and having TV in the background.

In other news...

I think I've decided on a new career path. I have several different office-type prospects out there, and that's all well and good, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that what I have been doing just isn't working. The guitar lesson thing is good, too, but if I am being honest, I don't know if I am really disciplined enough to successfully run a business on my own. So, what can I do that will still give me stability, but will not fill me with equal parts of rage and despair? Well, I think it's about time I start using some of the training I received while I was in the Air Force. I am going to apply for an apprenticeship with the local electrician's union. It sounds like a great idea to me. I am definitely not afraid of hard work, and there's not a whole lot of politics involved, so I think it will be a good way to make the money I need to buy the things I want.

Tomorrow, I'm flying to Portland for the night. I will be playing a show, then flying back home Sunday morning so that I can ready myself to see The Pink Floyd Experience on Sunday night. I haven't seen The Pink Floyd Experience yet, but I have seen another Pink Floyd tribute band called the Australian Pink Floyd Show. They were fantastic. I have resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably never get a chance to see the real Pink Floyd, so bands like these are about as close as I am going to get, which is fine. The bottom line is I love Pink Floyd, and as long as the band playing their songs has the same amount of respect for the Floyd that I do, then they can't really screw up the music, and it will be an enjoyable show.

Other than that, the only other thing I have going on right now is the fact that I will turn 30 on Monday. I'm not really freaked out about it. I was actually more freaked out last night when I realized that it's now been 12 years since I graduated high school. Oh well. 30 can't be that bad. I hope.

Anyway, that's all I got tonight. I hope you all have a good weekend, and I hope I'll be able to write again soon.

Until then...

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