Well, I must say that today has been one of the finer birthdays that I can recall.
Normally, I dread my birthday as it ends up being a pathetic series of incredibly unfestive events. Today, however, has been quite nice.
It’s a wonderful reminder that things can change drastically, even over the course of just one year.
Now I’m off to hopefully watch Obama start to change things.
Happy Birthday to me!
how fucking awesome Serge Gainsbourg is.
today I remembered.
you should go listen to some Serge Gainsbourg.
that is all.
Rah and I had a nice night, even though she’s feeling crappy..
I’m a little salty ’cause she’s leaving tomorrow for the weekend.
Secretly, I’m kind of excited to get some work done.
…and play some video games.
Oh, on the off chance that someone reads this that I haven’t actually talked to in a while, Sarah and I are getting married this summer.
werd.
Sarah leaves in about an hour for a week.
lame.
Dom gets to Chicago in about two days for almost a week.
awesome.
Now, if only I wasn’t spending every free second sitting in front of the computer…
ugh.
-d.
I went to the symphony today.
Weird.
Here’s what I learned.
Tchaikovsky was gay.
When he was writing his 4th symphony (which is what they were playing today) he decided to get married. Kinda for the hell of it.
He got fan mail from some chick. She essentially said “Marry me or I will kill myself.” Tchaikovsky was like, “Okay. I love the life I have, but Ive been feeling kinda selfish.. So, sure let’s get hitched.”
Weird.
Next concert on my agenda: Earth Crisis reunion show.
Fucking hilarious.
-d.
So… a year ago life was weird. I had a job that I kind of hated. I’d been there for years. I was tired of it. I felt stagnant and bored almost all the time.
So, I came up with a solution.
I would move (back) to California and start over. Again.
Cut to today.
I have a new job, that I love and enjoy.
I walk and take the bus to work.
I have a great group of friends that constantly challenge me to better myself.
I’m working on quitting smoking (my worst habit that I’ve been doing for almost as long as I can remember…)
I’m planning out a wedding (to my wonderful techno-phobic partner of 9 years[next week]).
All in all, life kinda rules right now.
Guess what. I’m not in California.
This might be the first time in my life I can say that I was planning on bailing on life and actually stuck with it. Hooray for me!
Turns out, that if something in your life is sapping your will to live… you can change just that one thing. Shocking!
Onwards and upwards.
-d.
so.
I decided I needed to separate out my personal stuff from my (soon to be exclusively) tech oriented blog.
Since that blog is my “online” name, I figured what better name for my personal blog than my name? So, here’s me. Dylan Richard: more than just a nerd.
werd.
-d.