Monday, September 4th, 2006
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10:24 am - DragonCon
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So here I am back in Nashville. After an excellent weekend full of Storm Troopers, Tequila, and lots and lots of people I'm back in Nash-vegas. I'm still remembering just what happened over the weekend but I'm sure it was all fun. My body is on strike today with all the pains of hard living taking their tole. I can't complain and now that I'm back I can't wait to go next year.
As I remember the events of the last few days I'll write it down. For those who care you can find my pictures here http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbfx
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
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1:34 am - Who wants to live forever
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1:28am and can't sleep. Found a cool new photographer who blends oil paints with traditional photography. http://www.kevissimo.com/oilgraphing.htm really impressive style he calls Oilgraphing. Since I don't have the money to take traditional photographs, develop them myself, and print them myself so I smear oil paint on them I'll use my own special technique called Photoshopping. I'll do my photographs the traditional way when money and space aren't a problem.
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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7:05 pm - The end of magic
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I was thinking back on the books I used to read, the ones that first made me want to jump into books and live another life in a far away land. King Arthhur, and knights, and magic were central in my universe and good fought evil and good always won. I've moved on since then and it's been a long, long time since I've gone to those realms that captured my imagination. More often I find the dialog flat and the plot predicatable, the themes trite and over done. Evil is more interesting and good is hamstrung by it's inability to make the choices it needs to make. Personal experience more often gets in the way where I know that just being a good person isn't enough to live a happy life. Bad things do happen to good people and some "bad" people do prosper. It's a shame that once your mind wakes up you can't go back to the past joys that occupied your life. A good healthy suspension of disbelief would do me wonders when I read fiction but I can't muster it as of late.
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12:30 am
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Mainly posting so my angry smartass comments from the last post aren't at the top and I'm doing my damnedest to keep my journal updated. Had a really good day today. Met with friends and had some great discussions which lasted well into the evening. I've never met people I can talk to for hours and hours till now. Considering I'm a quiet person that's huge. So many things humming through my brain. Going to try meditating tonight but I'm wired on hotwings, chocolate brownies, and strawberry icecream. There went my "free day" for this week. Starting anew on Monday with the diet/exercise regiment. Gotta keep working on that. Goal for the week: Keep up with current events in the news so we can discuss the war next week.
current music: Metallica - Disposable Heroes
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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10:03 pm - The Clip of Justice
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So I got a very special package in the mail today. Paper clips! Not just any paper clips these are Sparco Saver, Size 1, .33 mm that were addressed to me and I did not FUCKING ORDER THEM. When they showed up on my doorstep I freaked. Paper clips aren't that menacing in and of themselves but I was afraid someone had hacked my account info from Overstock.com where they came from. It could just be a joke (and a funny one at that) but I had to know that I hadn't been frauded and this nice little package wasn't to be the first of many parcels charged to my account. After talking with a rep online for an hour we figured out that there is another K. Webb in Nashville that UPS confused me with. All is well and the paper clips now reside on my desk. I looked them up online and who would order these things? They're 15 cents a box and it must have cost 3 bucks to ship it. It would be cheaper to just go to the store but ordering them is more fun I guess.
This isn't the first time I've been mistaken for someone else. Turns out theres a clone of me walking around Nashville. People say I look like someone but they can never remember his name. I've asked other people and they say he plays in a band. This clone plays bass (why did I get the bass player model?). His health aint too good, and he can't pay his medical bills (collections tried to come after me for said clones bills. Rot in hell evil K Webb). And now I've learned he has a fetish for office supplies. This is very reminiscent of Office Space, now the lot of you stay away from my stapler okay!
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12:30 am - Autumn sun
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Don't know what it is about this time of year but I feel this deep sense of loss and dejavu as summer leaves and fall slides into place. The golden sun of autumn hangs low in the sky forever on these days and I wonder what exactly it is I'm supposed to be missing. I've felt like this even as a child, this sense of passing, life moving on, something being lost. For me, it's the best example I have that there might be lives before now and after now. If not, how could I regret for yesterday when I was a child and I had no yesterday to lament.
I'm not making sense. I'm tired but the anxiousness has me and I wonder it's source. I've always just taken the feeling for granted but I want to know why I always feel this way this time of year...
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
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9:26 pm - McWhore
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The Highlander bug got me and I broke down and ordered Highlander 1 2 and 3 tonight. I've missed those movies (even if 2 and 3 kind of sucked) so I'm glad my collection will be complete. I'll move on to Aliens next and then some of the other cheesy sci/fi action stuff from the 80's and 90's. (Commando and Terminator are on the list) I haven't really bothered with movies to this point but for some reason it's important all of the sudden. It really all started a few months back when I got DUNE when it was rereleased on DVD. It's really cheesy but I still love it. Even the overly...special worms that inhabit the sands of Arakis.
Logging off of the computer before I buy anything else. Evil internet, always temting me to spend money!
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
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8:21 pm
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'Ello 'ello 'ello everyone! Still bouncing off the walls from dinner. I'm a damn good cook if I say so myself. Things either go really well or really...badly so I'm glad tonight faired on the "very good" category. I fired up my Grill of Doom and the fiery propane furnace is still running smoothly despite the fact that my very technically unminded self did put it together. There was fear of large plumes of fire issuing forth the first time I lit it but I'm getting better at this whole cooking your food over an open flame thing.
That's life at the moment. I'm going to start posting to my Deviantart account soon ( http://gamma-of-two.deviantart.com/ )so I need you people to properly bug me to make sure that happens. I've been sucked into City of Heroes as of late and not getting much done. I have a lot of photography I want to do and I've neglected my 3D projects too long.
p.s. Cristi you need to look up Eisley on Pandora.com . They're really good and they sound like a band you'd like.
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Eisley - Marvelous Things
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