S.O.T.W Creature Fear by Bon Iver.

Heard it on Chuck again last night. They must love Bon Iver too.



and again at the end



I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds
So ready for us
So ready for us,
The creature fear

Teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was loud by your lowered
Seminary sold

Tear on tail on
Take all on the wind on
The soft bloody nose
Sign another floor...

The so many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
The creature fear

So did he foil is 'own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many torahs
So many for us

State of the Jonathan Address

Last Friday I worked the State of the City Address presented by Mayor Maryann Edwards at Pechanga Resort and Casino.  One thing happens every year without fail...I get corrected on my Pechanga pronouniation.  Like I said on my twitter, you cant pronounce it like Topanga, you have to say it as if your were a snobby old bag from Britain.

Schools been going well.  Im taking 2 classes this semester at CSUSM and I have abour 4 classes to remaining to get my BA in Communication.  Its taken so long because 1) I'm lazy when it comes to school and 2) I've been workin my career job for the past 4 years and its difficult to work full time and go to school.  Hats off to the "moms" out there that do it, its super tough.  So far I aced both my midterms and aced my first term paper with two to go.  I've never done really well in school because I am not as passionate about it as I am my work.  I love creating websites, graphic design, photography, and video.  I'm glad I have a career that utilizes all my passions.

Work has been going well...with exceptions.  The economic situation our country is in due to subprime lending has really affected us at work.  I work for the City of Temecula where half of our general fund is sales tax, and as you all can guess, sales across the country have been hit really hard.  In December, the city laid off all our project employees.  Project employees were full time, hard working people that because they were defined as "project" they didnt get benifits or were represented by our union.  We lost 5 people from our department, 2 were crucial losses as they were our helpdesk.  Helpdesk is who everyone calls when thier computer/software/phone stops working.  We had two people working this job fulltime and lost them.  So January was real tough on us.  I had to cover part of that helpdesk job as well as my own full time job.  I'm not complaining, we all must work together though this, but this extra job has been taxing on my stress levels and energy.  Last March we also lost another employee/position due to the early retirements.  This landed me another job to do, the AV Room and AV related work.  This job, unlike the helpdesk, I'm excited about taking over.  AV is one of my passions.  Plus we are building a new Civic Center in Old Town Temecula and I will be an integral part in designing the new council chamber's AV Room and Community Rooms.  The overall story is works been super busy, super stressful, with no end in sight.  Thats whats been consuming most of my life.

Ever since reading listening to Timothy Ferris's book "4 Hour Workweek," I've gotten excited about expanding my side project of movie theater websites.  Currently I do the websites for 3 movie theaters.  Ive been working on weekends re-programming the back end getting ready for a new and improved version of the site that can scale to many more theaters.  What this means is that its my hope some day to have the income of 50 or so movie theater websites and afford to travel and spend lots of time abroad emersing myself in thier culture and learning other languages.  This project could also open the possibilities of me being a stay-at-home dad if I ever get married and have kids.  The beauty of the movie theater website project is that I can work from anywhere that has an internet connection.  Although lately I've been lazy at progressing this project as works been real taxing on my energy where I spend most of my off hours playing Halo with Luke, Aaron, and Oscar.

In my spare time I've been re-listening to the Harry Potter books which I forgot how amazing they are, they definately deserve a future post to this blog.  The movies are still amazing for the special effects and abridged version of the story but nothing beats the books.  The books really go into detail the relationships people had with Harry's father and those get overlooked in the movie, and I think discovering those relationships are real important to Harry.

If you're reading this last paragraph I will be amazed.  If I looked at a blog post this long I may not have read it, hahahaha.  Well thats my life in a nutshell, a friggin huge nutshell but you get the point.

Kicking the Bucket (list)

I'm dying...well we all are technically...unless I find that fountain of youth I've been looking for.


Yesterday 22 year old rookie Angel's Pitcher Nick Adenhart was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Im not necessarily an Adenhart fan, actually never heard of him until the news. But it makes you think about when you will die. As my friend Jon put it:

Nick Adenhart isn't the same as a best friend, but the feeling of knowing that he passed before his time is the same as losing one. I have been in that situation already, and I know how it feels. This isn't as close to home, but you still have that feeling of loss, of disappointment, of waste.

So what do I want to do before I die so that my life is not a "waste"? My list (a work in progress):

• Learn and speak Spanish, French, and Russian fluently.
• Live for 6+ months in a country that isnt the United States.
• Sky dive (who's BL doenst have that one)
• Get married (learning French may help as I have a thing for French women)
  
• Have my baby son or daughter grab my finger with their whole hand.
• Have the last check I ever write to bounce. (Can't take it with me)
• Become President (jk, thats way too much work and I'm a huge slacker)
• Live a life with purpose.

Living a life with purpose is the hardest thing to do. I think people to often go on autopilot and just go to work and home and to work again. I don't want to get caught in that.

SOTW - Blood Bank by Bon Iver

I heard this song back a few weeks ago on an episode of Chuck. I love the guitar and melody.



Well I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags
Wondering if any of the colors
Matched any of the names we knew on the tags

You said "see look thats yours!
Stacked on top with your brother's
See how the resemble one another
Even in their plastic little covers"

And I said I know it well

That secret that you knew
But don't know how to tell
It fucks with your honor
And it teases your head
But you know that its good girl
Cos its running you with red

Then the snow started falling
We were stuck out in your car
You were rubbing both of my hands
Chewing on a candy bar

You said "'aint this just like the present
To be showing up like this"
AS a moon waned to crescent
We started to kiss

And I said I know it well

That secret that we know
That we don't know how to tell
I'm in love with your honor
I'm in love with your cheeks
What's that noise up the stairs babe?
Is that Christmas morning creaks?

And I said I know it well
I know it well ...