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From Dictionary.com

venerate \VEN-uh-rayt\, transitive verb:

To treat someone or something with deep respect, reverence or deference; to revere.

abstruse \ab-STROOS; uhb-\, adjective:

Difficult to comprehend or understand.

Behold. Yesterday and today’s words of the day. And evolving in the manner of a horoscope, these words start to make more and more sense. The moon has currently waxed itself to the point where it is almost full and just when you think you get what’s going on, you don’t.

There are some things I wish I could understand better, and some things I try to respect. Some things I try to hold back, restrain myself, and let things go as they are. But I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter how hard I try, that just can’t happen.

Like my myspace friends have seen, Contravene like you Fulminate. Which means to interfere in the affairs of others as though you were causing a loud and cataclysmic explosion. All too fitting.

Enough ramblings on that tho.

On Monday, we closed on the house, so it’s all nice and official. Life is amazing. Thanks to the Realtor Mike Randolph from Century 21 for all of his help in all of it. So we’re excited. Old family will be out around the 7th, then we start finishing the floors and painting. I already know what I want to do for my room: dark blue for the walls, purple trim and black ceiling with a night sky and constellations in glow paint. I have ideas for the other rooms too, namely the room at the top of the steps which i’m going to use for music and the room i’m going to make a library. Should be fun.

Internet is out at my house because the area of the house with all the datacentre stuff is out of power for no apparent reason.  So that’s why updates are slow here.

In other news, i’m going to be able to see counting crows in comstock park next month. I know someone in Toronto who’se wife can’t go so he offered up to me her ticket. So he’s just going to pick me up on the way out there and drop me off on the way back. By then we should have completed most of the move in our new house and this will be a great way to top off a long month of moving. So I’m super psyched about that. Wolfmother is tomorrow, and I got my tickets for Live / Collective Soul and for Family Values. Life is good.

All in all, i’m in a very fortunate person right now and i’m surrounded by some awesome people. I couldn’t be happier.

In other news, I go to trial July 17th. w00t.

So it’s pretty much a done deal. On Sunday we take the final walk through the house. Which is funny, because for me, it will be the first walk through the house. You may find it weird that I would push for the purchase of a property that I haven’t even been inside. But I can assure you all that I would never had been so sincere with this if I wasn’t certain that it would be a good move. And thus far, I’ve been happy with what I’ve discovered about the place.

It’s an 1898 Victorian, I knew that. What I didn’t know was that the original owner was Dr. Arthur A. Parisot, who was the 16th Mayor of Mount Clemens (1903-1904) and the 24th Mayor (1917-1918). It seems as though there was a new mayor every 2 years back in those days, like they just took turns being the mayor. It was also the long time home (from the 20s - the late 70s) of Fred Miller. Not to be confused with the local democrat congressman, this Fred Miller was one of the Miller Brothers, of the local Miller Brothers’ Creamery. Which is pretty cool too, the house has a lot of history to go with it’s character.

So all that’s left is Sunday’s final walk through the house and on Monday we dot our i’s and cross our t’s and it’s a done deal.

Sorry to those who I haven’t emailed back or said anything too all week. I’ve been down with something, and every day I wake up and say “I don’t want to go to work today”, but I do anyways. So off I go, feeling like crap with a sore throat and it’s been very hot lately, so that doesn’t help matters either. Ugh, I wanna go home.

In matter’s of life and death, there’s some new things happening. Last week Craig’s neighbor Bobby passed away of a heart attack. This morning his Uncle John went, and my old boss and neighbor Julie just dropped me an email asking me if I could work on July 5th and 6th because her father just died and she needs to be in St. Louis.  On the other side of the coin, there will now be 2 pregnant women around the shop, first was Heidi (which I so called) and as of yesterday, Traci (Matt’s wife) is also bearing child (which anybody could have called). Babies at work, death everywhere else. Funny how that works.

Good new music has been flowing through my veins lately.  I’ve really been getting into that old school sound that Any Winehouse brings, it’s funny how a jewish girl from North London can crank out sound like that, but it’s amazing.

Just as amazing is the new Wilco album titled “Sky Blue Sky”. It has some wonderful guitar parts in it and it may be their best album yet. Not sure yet, but it just may be better than Ghost or Yankee Hotel. I’ll need more time to be sure though.

2 new ones that I picked up but haven’t popped in yet are the new ones from Marilyn Manson (Eat Me, Drink Me) and the White Stripes (Icky Thump). Everyone says they’re both solid albums, I suppose I’ll have to judge for myself, but from what I’ve heard thus far, they seem to live up to it.

Resident Evil 4 for the Wii dropped today, and Kev let me know I got mine waiting up at the store. IGN gave it a 9.4, so it should be badass. It sucked hard on the gamecube and now they’re saying that the wii version is the best one out there. That’s awesome. Considering it’s only $30, no reason why anybody wouldn’t buy this game. And folks, if you know for a fact that you’re going to buy a game when it comes out, please just pre-order it. Those game store employee’s really need those numbers. No reason why you can’t help them out.

Anybody know what it’s like, to be “in like” with someone that you really can’t have? You feel so alive when you’re with that person. You want to hold their hand and smile every time you see them. You legitimately want to do things for them. You catch yourself thinking about them all the time. And you know that it’s more than infactuation or lust,  because all you want is to just be with them. And you can’t. For numerous reasons. Damn virgo girls. That’s my situation.

All for now, gotta go paint.

So I’m back from vacation. It was a blast, when I have time I’ll talk a little more about it. Also I’ve added a calendar link to the top of the page that goes right to my google calendar. So you guys know when i’m available and when i’m not.
The people we’re buying the house from had a yard sale over the weekend. Craig went over there and talked to the guy, he said he did lots of drywall, painting, and a few other things.  That plus the mortgage looks like it’s going good. And to add icing to the cake, Tom is going to look at an apartment with Kim tomorrow, so if he moves out I’ll have a whole flat to myself. The excitement is maddening at this point. We’ve also kinda decided on colors for the house. White / off white for the siding, dark red or like an ox blood for the trim, and a black roof. I’m happy with that on multiple levels.  Historical Homes tour is on Saturday, so that should be an interesting event if we go, I still haven’t called the library yet to see how much tickets are or anything like that.

On Friday i’m getting contacts. As you all know i’m sick of glasses, so I stopped in last Friday since I was in town in time to stop in at the eye doctor before they closed. So I saw my doctor, picked out new frames, and ordered some contacts. Life is good.

I saw Hostel 2 yesterday. Unlike the first one this one wasn’t half porn. Better than the first one by far, and there were some really memorable scenes.

And in 45 minutes the Apple WWDC 2007 kicks off. I’m predicting some cool new leopard gui stuff (with core graphics framework), an SDK for the iPhone, and a MacBook Pro with Santa Rosa. But we shall see.

I’m out, starting tonite till friday, going up north with my peeps. Don’t even try to get a hold of me till friday.

*sigh*. Check this out. Looks like rain for my vacation. Dammit.

Word to the wise: never, ever, ever leave your Macbook on the floor. Yes, my pretty little black Macbook got stepped on yesterday by my stupid self because it was on the floor, in the shadows, and I thought I’d stepped over it, only to realize that I’d gotten about 1/5 of the right side of the screen.

Now granted, it could be worse. I could have snapped the optical drive, keyboard, case, etc. So all things considered, it’s not that bad. The bad part will be the replacement. $200 for the new screen by itself, then some lovely 24 pages of detailed instructions on how to fix it. Essentially, because the LCD connector is under all the peripherals on the board, everything has to be taken apart to get to it. Yes, everything. Pain in the ass, here I come

Of course the first thing I did was looked into AppleCare to see if they would cover something like this. And of course they won’t. It’s only for a manufacturer error. Like if the hard drive randomly dies, the CPU randomly blows, etc. It doesn’t cover products broken from “abuse or neglect”. I figured maybe I’d buy apple care, wait a week, then send it in. No dice. Apple care is $250 anyways. The new screen, with overnight shipping, will only be $200.

I’ll take some pics later to show you all how damaged it was and may document the surgery that will need to be done. We shall see. Till then, i’m back on windows

Speaking of Apple, the All Things Digital Confrence happened with Stevie and Billy boy taking the stage. It was quite interesting, good stuff. Check it out Here.

And a DLO TransDock Micro, in peices, was just put on my desk to repair. It’s essentially a road trip. Gotta do some sodering, someone kicked this thing’s ass. Gotta go.