vol. 52

it's amazing how seeing people you haven't seen for quite some time really jog memories you have of another person -- been thinking about you all day, kevin...

vol. 51

wow... just, wow -- i got this thing going with a full head of steam -- 50 posts like it was nothing and now it's sat idle for over a month -- that's embarrassing, actually... so what has happened in the meantime, you ask? well, nothing... and a lot...

• the pens are kicking butt and taking names -- i'm going to go back to a comment higg made right before march madness that went a little something like this: the steelers won the super bowl, pitt's going to win the ncaa championship, the pens will win the stanley cup and the pirates, well, the pirates might finish at .500 -- i guess he's looking at 50% on that...
• i got involved in facebook -- hit it hard at the start, but my interest is definitely waning -- i guess i can see why people are/were so into it, there's no doubt that it makes communicating with people an easier task, especially those from your past, but i think i'm just about done...
• instead, i'm now all over twitter -- at first i hated it -- didn't really understand it, to be honest -- but with some help from friends, i'm getting it -- tweetdeck is great and twitterific on the iphone is pretty darn cool also...
  
• i'm really amazed at how people (especially those in blog land) have taken to the word snarky... with pride, that is...
  
• i just caught the last 30 minutes of the shawshank redemption on encore -- it's restored my faith in humanity, i guess -- i love watching morgan freeman's last, drawn out search for tim robbins -- the scenery, the music (i think this was probably my first taste of thomas newman's brilliant work) ... "remember red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you and finds you well..."
• this is a cool time of year to be a teacher -- the year's almost done, and with that comes the former students who come back to visit -- it's a rewarding tihng, let me tell you...
  
• i've found that there are few things better than catching up with old friends and having a few over some great memories...

get busy living or get busy dying...