djzircon

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Westminster, MD 21157

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So I've been getting a lot of interesting hits on my LJ lately. I've been wondering why....

Tonight I found out that several Polysics blogs have been directing to my pictures from the Emmitsburg show. I wish I would have done a better job of shooting them now!

"I told God that I had stabbed him because he was killing my mother. I know he understands, and I think he will keep us safe now."

This is from a 12 year old kid that stabbed a guy that was attacking his mom.

It weirds me out for some reason.

If everything goes according to plan, I will be viewing cherry blossoms in D.C. this weekend.

or

How I spent my spring break.

There is nothing in this work quite as satisfying as washing your car by hand.


That is all.

A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.

--Bruce Lee

Check out who's in this months issue of Project Car.

Just came across this while looking through my old videos. I'm going to try to get the infamous furniture video up in the next few days.

I may have posted this before, I can't remember. Even if I did it's worth posting again.

This last week has been insanity. Thank you all for the birthday wishes. It was a busy birthday. Last weekend we had to go to Ocean City for Kristin's job. She had to promote the station at a boat show. It was fun, but exhausting. Basically there was very little rest for both of us over the weekend.

The hotel they set us up in was pretty sweet. It had a direct view of the ocean and it was bigger than our apartment. We also had a lot of our meals paid for by the station in Ocean City. This was cool, but the first place we went to made Kristin sick. The second place was pretty cool. It was pretty swanky. Sadly the service kind of sucked.

This week has just been me pounding away at the computer. It seems like I can't keep up this semester. When I finally get caught up, I'm too tired to get ahead, so I get behind again. It's a vicious cycle really. I honestly should be working instead of typing this, but oh well.

Kristin and I took care of our taxes last night. We would have gotten about 400 bucks back, but my freelance work from UTM killed that. We're going to end up with about 20 bucks coming back. Add that to the $280 we had to pay to get our taxes done and we end up $260 in the hole. Boo...

Anyway.........

I need to get back to work.

It's only been for an hour or so, but I'm now 29. One year away from the big 3-0. I've been having a lot of discussions with folks lately about growing older. There's been a lot of talk about regret. I really don't have many regrets. I said I wanted to go to college. I did that. I said I wanted to go to grad school. I did that. I said I wanted to marry a cool chick. I did that. I said that I wanted to live in Japan. I did that. I said I wanted a teaching job. I got that.

The one thing I feel like I missed out on was my art career....

So I decided that over the next year, from Feb 13 2008 to Feb 13 2009 I'm going to enter 30 art shows. I'm not promising that I'll get into 30 art shows, but I'm entering that many. I figure that puts me at entering about three shows a month. It seems very doable. I just have to stick with it. Hopefully, if it goes well, I'll post progress reports here.

It's going to cost a bit of cash to do this, but I think it's worth it. It's something I really must do.....

Found this on my Subaru forum:

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Back in November Toyota’s German Chief Markus Schrick confirmed Toyota was working on several new sports cars including a replacement for the Celica, and now Japanese magazines are claiming the new model will arrive as early as next year. The new car is said to be the joint-effort of a collaboration between Toyota and Subaru and it will reportedly be offered in two different variants, a cheaper GT model and a high-performance AWD GT-Four.

The two carmakers have been sharing production facilities and swapping engineers ever since Toyota bought a stake in Subaru early last year and these new sports cars are likely to be the first to be spawned from the partnership. The cheaper GT version is supposed to have a target price of under $20,000, Japan’s Best Car reports, which agree with earlier reports claiming Toyota was working on an affordable successor to the 1980’s AE86. The GT will feature a conventional front-engine RWD layout and will be powered by a naturally aspirated 2.0L Subaru four-cylinder boxer engine.

The more expensive GT-Four, meanwhile, will come with AWD as standard and get the same 300hp turbo four as the Japanese spec Subaru Impreza STI. According to the source, the engine in this car will be positioned closer to the firewall to help improve handling and it could also feature in-wheel electric motors to help traction.

Both cars will come in coupe and three-door hatch bodystyles and will be sourced from Subaru’s Gunma plant in Japan. No five-door hatch will be offered as Toyota and Subaru don’t want to compete with the current Impreza range.

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Subaru powered hachi roku.......*drools*

So after making my post last night about not doing art until I get a show, I get a show. My boss came up to me in the hallway today and asked if I want to be part of a two man digital show in the fall. Should be fun....