For my friends, i’ll drive to the ends of the earth for them.  For
some,  i’ll even swipe (or should i say YOINK!) a milk
carton,  even before the watchful eye of a Moona Lisa.

The third track off the album….

“Summer Skin” by Death Cab For Cutie

Squeaking swings and tall grass


The longest shadows ever cast


The water’s warm and children swim


And we frolicked about in our summer skin

I don’t recall a single care


Just greenery and humid air


Then labor day came and went


And we shed what was left of our summer skin

On the night you left I came over


And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders


Our brand new coats were so flushed and pink


And I knew your heart I couldn’t win


‘Cause the season’s change was a conduit


And we’d left our love in our summer skin

yeah,  i should probably take another pic…maybe even take off
the hat and smile in the next one.   i almost never wear my
giants hat….i just was in a rush to get ready this
morning.  

good night everyone.

Got my iSight webcam up and running,  although its not like it will get much use if i’m out and about in the City all the time. 

I thought I should probably update my profile pic…..the reno pic was
a little old.  I will probably snap a better one for this
page,  but that will have to do for now! 

Not much else to say right now. 

Okay,  maybe installing kmaps wasn’t the brightest of ideas.

I toasted my treo today and had to take it over the Sprint store and
have them do a hard reset. Bye bye phone numbers.  Since i’ve been
focused on the move and such,  I haven’t synced with my computer
lately,  so I basically have lost all my phone numbers and other
various data i’ve put in there in the last month.  OUCH.

aaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I guess it could have been worse. I thought i was going to have to shell out $ for a new phone.

Think i’ll pass on the gym tonight……(although I really need to go!)……just not in the mood.

The second track off this amazing cd….

“Soul Meets Body” by Death Cab For Cutie

I want to live where soul meets body


And let the sun wrap its arms around me,


And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing


And feel… feel what it’s like to be new.

‘Cause in my head


There’s a Greyhound station


Where I set my thoughts


To far-off destinations


So they may have a chance


Of finding a place where they’re


Far more suited than here.

I cannot guess what we’ll discover


When we turn the dirt


With our palms cupped like shovels,


But I know our filthy hands


Can wash one another’s


And not one speck will remain.

I do believe it’s true


That there are roads left in both of our shoes,


But if the silence takes you


Then I hope it takes me too.


So brown eyes, I’ll hold you near,


‘Cause you’re thee only song I want to hear.


A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.

Where soul meets body.


Where soul meets body.


Where soul meets body.

And I do believe it’s true


That there are roads left in both of our shoes,


But if the silence takes you


Then I hope it takes me too.


So brown eyes, I’ll hold you near,


‘Cause you’re thee only song I want to hear.


A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.

A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.


A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.


A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.

Oops. I guess i’ll leave the book for another day.  Maybe on my lunch break tomorrow. 

So i picked up my journal from four years ago when I was backpacking
through Europe.  I have to say,  I laughed out loud reading
some of the entries,  and I think I will post a few here in a
couple days as a “what was pete doing four years ago”
entry.   I’m not sure how amusing you all will find the
posts,  but I know I will enjoy them. 

I found the entry for the day i learned how to play 9-5-2,  the
greatest card game ever for three people.   Of course,  when
I got home,  I could never find the rules online,  but I
guess others do play it.

How random is it to come across a cool blog, 
only to realize that its a girl who I went to pre-school and elementary
school with.  I’ve only seen her once since fifth grade
graduation,   as I ran into her at the gym in San Mateo
sometime in
2002.  Adrienne is happily married
and lives in Berkeley where she blogs about the “bourgie
revolution.”   She even has a podcast,  which makes her
more of a geek than me. 

I’ll share my biggest fear….and no,  it is not being force-fed “mega m&ms” against my will. (good dark belgian chocolate is a weakness of mine.  bad american chocolate is still a weakness.)

My biggest fear?   Completely missing something obvious,  and only figuring it out when the moment has passed.

Yeah,  but that never happens,  right?

Okay,  i think I’m going to start (and finish) this book
tonight.  Looks like a quick read, and i’ll be up for a while I
think.

I’ve re-written this entry a couple times, but the lyrics remain. 
When i was at the gym tonight,  I ran into an old friend of mine
from n’western,  who I completely forgot lived in the City. 
I met up with her once last year at a rotoract meeting,  but our
busy schedules made us lose touch.  I guess i do know more people
in this city than I thought I did.  A couple other people at the
gym looked familiar,  but i’m fairly sure that I didn’t know
them. 

Ben Gibbard,  lead singer of Death Cab,  has put together a
cd which completely speaks to me.  Not just this song,  it
just seems like the soundtrack to my life right now.  In
fact,  it’d be nice to be able to pick up my guitar and play this
song for someone….a hopeless romantic indeed.  I’m enjoying
being single….but that scary thought remains (way back in a very
remote part of my mind) of actually finding a girl who appreciates a
nice guy. 

“Marching Bands of Manhattan” by Death Cab For Cutie

If I could open my arms


and span the length of the isle of Manhattan


I’d bring it to where you are


making a lake of the East River and Hudson

And if I could open my mouth


wide enough for a marching band to march out


they would make your name sing


and bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings




I wish we could open our eyes


to see in all directions at the same time

Oh what a beautiful view


if you were never aware of what was around you


And it is true what you say


that I live like a hermit in my own head


but when the sun shines again


I’ll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole


just like a faucet that leaks
and there is comfort in the sound


but while you debate half empty or half full


it slowly rises

your love is gonna drown

Next book i’m going to read is “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,  Strife
of Love in a Dream”,  which “Rule of Four” is based on.  I
picked it up off amazon along with the illustrated (but supposedly
still unabridged) version of Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons.”  I
haven’t read many novels lately, so i think i’m going to switch back
into that mode. 

I’m not reading the original italian version,  just the english
translation.  Supposedly it is a difficult read.  Thats
okay,  i’m always up for a challenge.   Finding the time
to read it will also be part of that challenge,  although I did
pass up seeing Roger Clemens pitch today against the Giants.  I
went to the game on Friday night and hung out with some co-workers as
well as all the regulars in 152 (all the season ticketholders showed up
tonight…even Jason, the guy from whom i buy my tickets.)

I’m in a poker freeroll tourney (only about 100 players are signed up
last time i checked) for $2,000 in cash and a $5,150 seat in a World
Poker Tour event down in Los Angeles in a couple weeks.  The odds
of me winning are slim,  but i’ve been playing well lately so who
knows!