it all seems so much simpler from 35210 km above 15°7'N 16°40'W - 2004-12-10 4:35 a.m.

i've had this page open since i got home from band practice, which was about 4 1/2 hours ago. i have alot of stuff i want to write, but i can't figure out where to start.
it doesn't help that i've procrastinated til now, and i'm having trouble keeping my eyes open.
i'm thinking about the year in review, trying to sum it up. that's goddamn near impossible since no matter how hard i try, i can't remember most of it.

and then i wrote this huge long entry. it was massive. it was a solid hour and a half of nonstop typing. and it brought you up to date, and had a freakish amount of incredibly personal stuff about me, and i swore a lot. and then i erased it, cause it was just too much fucking information.

i don't think i really wrote it all down for you to read in the first place, i just needed to write it. and i feel a lot better now.

i hope you do too, my bitches. sorry for the cop-out.

in the hopes of appeasing you, here's a picture of cassie and me. there was a good 600 words in that rant explaining who she is and why she makes me so gooddamn happy, but a picture is worth a thousand words. SO YOU OWE ME 400 WORDS NOW, DICKS.

and for good measure, here's one of me, looking really pissed off. i wasn't, i swear. also, the more observant of you may notice i seem to have misplaced my beard. i shaved it off. and now i really miss it. so pretend i'm looking mad cause of my beard deficiency:

um... what else?
here's a keyboard for pirates:

and uh.... hmm.
okay. this is really cool. here's the world, at this exact second, as seen by the satellite INTELSAT 10-02, currently 35210 km above 15°7'N 16°40'W.

as you can see, it's about to start getting light on this side of the world again. which means i should have been in bed a while ago. so with that, goodnight.

you're still all my bitches.

love,
brendan