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Okay, two posts in four months is just plain stupid. At this rate it's going to cost me $17.90 per post. Screw that.

Anyway, a barrage of announcements (long in the making) on the band front is on its way. Look for the announcement on the band website in the next couple days or so. Word of our plans has been slowly leaking out, so we need to make our "official" announcement soon. It'll nice to have it out, anyway, so I can start discussing it...if you're puzzled you'll find out soon enough.

On a related note, things are piling up and I feel like I'm working more and more, sleeping less and less, and somehow falling further and further behind. Time to hunker down and get back into "work all the time" mode. I've resigned myself to the fact that I have to suspend my effort to cut back on Red Bull and other energy drinks, at least for the next few months (I think "resigned" is probably the wrong word, it's actually more like "eagerly rationalized"). I've discovered the Starbucks doubleshot canned espresso drink (tastes like coffee ice cream!) and somehow I've deluded myself into thinking it's better for me, since there's just less of it. I've bought an Aerobed and intend to keep that, along with a change of clothes, in the trunk of my car. I hope it's not going to come to that, but if it does, I'd like to be prepared....

Second Post

In lieu of any actual real content, I submit a link to Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford University. Short and well worth a listen:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/videos/53.html

(downloadable links here):

http://www.wiredatom.com/jobs_stanford_speech/

It's true, only the second post in and I'm starting to regurgitate links! I am lost!

It's very easy to listen to these kinds of "go forth and LIVE" exortations, and get inspired to intend to live this way. But it's another thing entirely to get up the next morning, commit to it and grind it out, especially if the rest of society (including your family, friends, coworkers, et al) thinks you should be doing this instead, or that instead. And then when you wonder at night: "Maybe they're right -- what if I totally screwed it up?"

A speech like this serves not just those starting out into the world, but is useful to those that might need to re-examine whether we're still living our lives the way we intended to.