Keep On Slowin’ Down

I sit in the car as my wife drives us down for my niece’s sweet 16th birthday party, and I find myself waxing nostalgic for the days when I was 16. “I Wanna Get Off With You” by Republica is flying out of our car speakers, and while the lyrics aren’t quite fitting for the events of the day ahead, the song fits in nicely with where my head is. It’s that kind of pop electric meaningless distraction that sort of makes your thoughts get syncopated, and even though you don’t really like the music you suddenly find your head moving back and forth and the only thing in your mind is this dodododododatido dunnnnnn pitchaditadadada dunnnnnn… I realize something is lost in the translation, but hopefully you understand the mood. It’s that state of mind that seems so rare, where things that normally bother you… just don’t.

A Forum for Fortitude (and saying Fuck sometimes)

Welcome to my 2nd Ever Blog (first one was more of techy thing: http://someelement.blogspot.com/). I made a new blog because my first one is old (very old in blog terms), stale (last post over a year ago), and it’s not a true extension of who I am. It was more an extension of what I do for a living, which I think is ultimately a bit boring. Let’s face it, talking about programming can only be non-boring if you’re a programmer and even then would require a healthy level of lying to yourself to be awesome. I think if I apply myself, I’m not really that boring, and maybe even a little awesome. I also could not say “Fuck” on that blog without it being completely out of place and just downright frowned upon… and truth be told I say “Fuck” (and other swear words like “shit”, “damnit”, and “Fuckshitdamnit”) fairly often. Here it’s right in the title of the blog, so it’s not out of place. Come here and you’re likely to be subjected to some cursing (nerds).