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I am going to go buy a cheap ass laptop for work today. It is $600 from walmart. I need it for next week so I am doing what I have to do. I will enjoy being wireless anyway.
I had a rough morning trying to get all of my stuff ready for school. I had every problem in the world trying to get my prints ready. I am doing a painting from a 3d landscape I created. I talked to some of the grad students today and they thought the concept was good and they really liked the images I printed. I kinda getting excited to do this. I am also getting a bunch of oil paints cheap from john on thursday. I am trying to save all my money so that is a good thing.
I leave on Tuesday to go to Austin. I think that this conference is going to be awesome. I am ready to hang out with my Austin friends. Game geeks are fun to hang out with.

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Well, I just found out that I will be attending the Austin Game Conference in 10 days. I like Austin and always learn alot about game dev when I go. There is a special part of the conference that I want to look into. It is the Womans Game Conference. I have to do some meeting for that time but I am sure I will be able to attend some of the talks. It is such a gender dominated field that I would like to see what women are doing to penetrate this field. I know that the number of woman playing games is increasing. I want to see the game dev side of this. How many woman are in the dev side of games? I think that there is a definate need for woman in the dev side. It is what games lack now.

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I spent the whole weekend with Lara. We went to the SPCA on saturday after having a gloomy morning. There was a beautiful pit puppy. It was not meant to be though. We both were not all about it. We had a fun night and just spent some time together. We went mountain biking yesterday at the spillway. It was Laras first time off road but she did well especially for her first time.
Jonah was linked by boingboing for an article in which he wrote “I’ve written an essay that compares the planned RNC actions, technologies and protests next week to the Wende in Bruce Sterling’s short story ‘Deep Eddy’ and the Wende period of the falling of the berlin wall.” All in all I think that Jonah knows whats going on and its effect it will have. Well I have to work. I will write more later.

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I am totally indulging myself with complex information so that I might be able to understand Thinking Particles 2. It is a different way of thinking. A process in itself. I am acclimating slowly but I think that it runs the same way that max msp runs. In a sort of schemetic non-linear set of rules. I will conquer it this weekend.
On top of that I also have to get some materials to build a frame for a canvas. Jim decided for me that I should stretch my own canvas and use oil paints. I think he wants me to do it tradionally because I am using a digital concept. The oil paints will be more vivid and allow for a saturated, clean appearance. I will be working on my first render this weekend and have it printed out for Tuesday. I want it to be perfect, and when I say perfect I mean I want it to have all of the qualitys of a digital replication so that when I paint it it will show the digital interpreatation of a natural landscape.

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A birthday kiss was in effect. We had a great time yesterday. We went to Oreleans Grapevine for dinner which was incredible. We also went and saw Garden State. That movie is good and the sountrack is awesome. We stayed at the W Hotel last night even though our place was closer than the hotel when we finished our night. It was still fun to jump on the bed and make a mess that you dont have to clean up.

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Well, back to school again. I do enjoy it. Although I am an old man on campus. That doesnt really bother though. I am taking a T Th painting class from 9:30 - 12:15 and a english class on T Th 8:00 - 9:15. It seems as though the painting class will be good because I can incorporate it into what I am presently working on. I have to finished one of my many projects so that I can focus on a caouple of important ones.
I am going on a ride today as soon as I put on a new cog. Mine is trashed and I need to put on a new one before I get hurt. Lara is up for a ride today on her new ride I built. I am going to take the pics of it tonight.

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I do not want to be at work today. I need another day off. I go to school tomorrow morning and I do not fell prepared. It may just be end of summer anxiety. I will be better once I get into the groove. I am only taking an english class and a painting class. I wanted to take an art history class from Isabelle Wallace but I could not fit it into my schedule.
I built a bike for Lara on Saturday. It came out really nice. I am putting some fancy parts on it later today and I will take some pics of it and post them tomorrow. It came out better than what I expected.

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Well it has been about a year since the Christine/Sonny marriage agreement. So much has changed since then it is hard for me to remember what those days were like. It has been long enough that the sour taste in my mouth has faded. So I will reflect on only the positive aspects of the past year. I will keep the memories clear of the bad and only with the good.
I am stronger and wiser person after the changes that have taken place. I know how to recognize the difference between love and admiration. I also learned how to allow myself to be loved and how to appreciate it. I learned how to accept the wrong doings that I have done even if I was not the sole cause. I learned how to trust someone with everything and allow myself to put the past in the past. I learned how to follow my dreams. It took me losing sight of my dreams to now understand how important they are. I learned how to communicate my feelings with others better than I ever have. Most of all I learned how to forgive others and myself.
This was a year filled with horrible events that turned out to be some of the best outcomes of my life. It is strange how these things seem to work themselves out.

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After a great ride with Lara and Dave we went to watch the Olympic ITT at Markys. I am not real patriotic or anything but I have to admit that I got a little teary eyed when I saw three Americans on the podium. It just proves that the USA is on top of its game when it comes to cycling. Even without Lance we were able to capture a Gold a Silver and a Bronze. I cant wait to see the Velodrome events and the mountain biking.

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My friend Dave called me today to go on a ride. I haven’t gone on a ride with dave since TDL. It will be a nice change. Lara is coming with us and she could use the practice of riding with someone other than me. I cant wait. Although I am all beat up from my recent crash I feel pretty good. I am stronger than I have been in the past year and if I can maintain and slow down some of my vices I will be in top form by the beginning of the year.

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