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Archive for October, 2008

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you might have a chemical imbalance.

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »

This has been on the tip of my tongue, but I don’t think there’s really a nice way to tell someone something like that. Pats on the head don’t work that well, either. I’m stumped. —— I’m going through tough times. Someone I care deeply about has suffered a stroke, but he’s on the rebound. If [...]

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Three Goals

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dance the salsa. Clap to flamenco. Ride in dirt next to cliffs without crying. I would like to achieve these in no particular order.

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You Have to Train for Old Age

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Don’t go into it lightly. It takes endurance, core muscle strength, and flexibility. Getting old ain’t for the weak.

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I Didn’t Come to Bakersfield to See the Sights

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I backpacked to Bakersfield for the annual Cal State University, Bakersfield, Alumni Swim Meet. That event, and that I’m too poor to travel out of state, inspired my plan: why not take a backpack and public transit, and feel like a world traveler? I could kill two birds with one stone. Here to our left is [...]

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Please Stop Flashing the Locals

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I miss backpacking through Europe so much that the closest thing I could afford these days was my own backpacking trip to Bakersfield. The whole trip by bus and then train took less than seven hours going down, and much longer coming home, but that’s only because there was some kind of incident between our train [...]

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Good Bye, Vincent

Posted in Art, Endangered Species, Travel on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Details of the history of beer and how it is crafted are spotty, but I remember a slide of Egyptians on a wall, but I remember more how we cheered when our tour guide told us for the next half hour, we could drink as much Heinekin beer as we wanted. I was taking the [...]

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I Am a Prisoner

Posted in Random Ramblings on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been taken prisoner by Facebook.  I feel little compelled to even express myself on my blog. Why write updates on my blog, when I can condense my life into one meaningful statement in Facebook? Today I needed a nap. The other day I was scheming, and before that, I was very, very, very angry [...]

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