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Random Thought Of The Entry:  I’m not leaving this "place" until there’s no "place" left.

W00t for coming back in less than a month again!

As I’m sure you’re all aware, there was some OD drama there for a while, and things are still seemingly up-in-the-air, but I’ll keep on reading and writing here until it’s simply not possible.  I care too damn much about my OD-family, and typing my thoughts into this text-a-licious space still makes me feel good.

I did start up a Prosebox, with the same name as here (thank goodness I’m at least a little bit original, nobody else snatched up the name "squidobarnez"), but my first stop for all things mental-cleansing will be this little piece of the internet.

As far as non-internet-related life goes, things are still chuggin’ along rather nicely.  I am ridiculously good at my job, proving to be an invaluable asset as a dish-ass-kicker-and-generally-happy-to-be-working-there-dude.  I look forward to doing a really good job every day.  Being the husband and father that I am make me feel like I’m on this planet for some worthwhile reasons.

I’ve been reading like a fiend again, and actually retaining story lines throughout entire novels, which is something that Jake 2.0 hadn’t been able to do since December of 2003 (when they last dug deep into my skull and melon-balled out the majority of the seething garbage that resided deep within the third ventricle of my brain).  I’ve blasted my way through a good chunk of my Kurt Vonnegut collection over the past few weeks, and I’m thisclose to finishing Darwin’s Origin of Species on the kindle that my mom got me for my birthday (a device that I credit with getting me back into reading again, thanks mom!).  I also read Journey to the Center of the Earth on the kindle ’cause Sezzie had read it on her kindle app for her phone.  We have a whole bunch of neat-sounding books stored up in our little virtual library.  I’m reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake at the moment in good ol’-fashioned paper-back, but the intensity with which my reading appetite has been resurrected will undoubtedly have me plowing through all of the lovely words-put-together that are at our disposal.

I’m really hoping that this site can find a way to stick around, because I’ve been through too much and gotten so much from this "place" that it would make me sad to lose it.

Our getting-bigger-every-day-"little"-girl became 18 months old six days ago.  Time is moving very quickly, but also at just the right pace for me to appreciate every little moment.  I grow more in love with her every day, and being her dad is the most rewarding thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing.

In closing, I feel like I’m doing quite well at life, I really hope this website doesn’t go kaput any time soon, and I think you’re all so wonderful.  You’re all a bunch of good eggs.