Friday, March 25, 2005 -- 3:09 PM

Christ is risen indeed! Blessed Good Friday.

This isn't so much a news bulletin as an excuse: I'm back to framing.

Saturday, March 19, 2005 -- 7:28 PM

A Day in the Life. Yes, it's freaking long, and also unedited.

I woke up with both the alarm clock and last night's headache in my brain. It wasn't bad, but it made me feel like I hadn't slept very well. It made it easy to get up though, knowing I couldn't get back to sleep, and I didn't feel like I really cared anyways. I showered slowly and dressed for work, and made a lunch. I also packed some asprin and my flask. One of them should take care of this damn headache.

I arrived at exactly eight o'clock and opened it up and started vaccuming. Later R called and said that I should not forget to put out the sign before I opened, and I was surprised to find that it was already nearly ten o'clock, and that my headache was gone. It was snowing lightly out and very few people came in, but the day passed quickly and later when R came in he told me about a book he picked up that could be worth as much as $2,000. It was a handmade, handprinted edition of the Ecclesiastes, one of only twenty-three in existence. Sources indicated that the binding was so metuculous as to be completely perfect, and R was in a good mood.

After work I drove to the legislature buildings. My dad and another pastor were holding a rally in defence of biblical marriage on the steps, and I saw the group from across the grounds, under the magnificence of the legislature building. I looked at how impressive it was, and how small the crowed looked beneath it. It wasn't so much a crowd, really, as a small group. I watched them for awhile, a little surprised that it wasn't bigger, and lit a cigar. I began walking across the grounds towards them, and then around to the side and to the back of the building. It really was very impressive. I walked back towards the main area, and as I got closer I heard them singing Psalm 77, and when I got there they were just breaking up. I said hello to a few people, and someone I knew there wanted to go play some pool.

He knew of a place near where he lived, but when we got there it was closed. "Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and they're closed, how odd." he said, and I agreed. "Oh well," he said, "Want to go back to your house and have a game of darts?" I didn't really, because that would mean I'd have to drive him back home, but I didn't have any better ideas. "Yeah, sure." I said.

I beat him four games out of four and after each one he joked that he should get a dart board. I wished now that he wasn't here, but it was too early to take him home, so we watched some TV and then left. I've always known we would never be really good friends, mostly because he seems very false after awhile, so I stopped trying. He still likes to get together every once in awhile though, and I guess that's alright.

Monday, March 14, 2005 -- 6:02 PM

So, I spent a thrilling weekend in Saskatoon Saskatchewan at a homeschool confrence. Even though I'm exaggerating about it being thrilling, I'm not really a thrill seeker, and it was fine. I saw Seanna again, which was fun. Unfortunately I forgot my camera; fortunately she had one, and if everyone is really nice to her maybemaybe we'll see it sometime. I also saw some other friends that I hadn't seen in eight years, at that same confrence. How about that.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 -- 6:45 AM

True, spring isn't officially here, but today it really felt like it for the first time. True, spring is an overdone theme in poetry, but by posting a poem on spring I hope to beat out all the other spring poetry. You know, the stuff that's actually posted in the spring.

A change has come with the year's first rain
winter's misty breath has gone
the season whispers a gentler tone

the melting ice runs warmly down
and tells me green will come again

Saturday, March 05, 2005 -- 3:16 PM

You know what? Yeah, you know what? Fine.

So as it turns out, the Dumb Ox was right, and Stars is a really great band. I've really been digging them lately, when I have a spare moment. And since we're talking about what I've been digging in my spare moments, I started Brave New World this week, and it's really quite something else, I'm finding. Damn you, The Man!

What else, what else... not too much, really. You see, this is what happens when you force me to post, you miscreant scallawags! Bah.