I've spent far too many hours waiting for delayed flights at airports today and far too many hours not sleeping this week so what better time to write a rambling blog post? I actually have real blog posts about recent events in LA on the back burner but just haven't had the time/clarity to sit down and write them. I will soon though. I did post the other day about a proposed Bike District which has stirred up a massive shit storm. Can you believe all those comments? Wow, I never would have though that was the kind of reaction I'd get from that post. Who knew people had such deep seeded opinions about such a light hearted topic. Anyway...

I'm in San Francisco this weekend for Arse Elektronika which is really just an excuse to see friends who are in town and I don't get to see enough. I'm missing a pretty fantastic bike ride in LA tomorrow though which has me a little bummed, but as Will noted it looks like it'll be a rather hilly route and since I'm now drinking the single speed kool aid it's probably best that forces outside of my control are keeping me away from it. That said, I'm DYING to show off my new bike to everyone in LA, which I guess will have to wait another week.

I've had so many people tell me how much they liked the 100 things post, which is cool and embarrassing at the same time. I forget anyone actually reads this site, which itself is a good thing to some extent. Reading back over the list I can't believe I actually wrote some of that. Not that it's not true, it all is, but that I put it on the internet. But there you have it.

I've been thinking a lot about what I wrote in #84. I don't want to think that, but find myself falling back into it pretty easily. It actually pairs up with #69 quite nicely. It's going to be an awesome day when I can just leave well enough alone and let something good happen for once. Unfortunately I don't foresee that day being too close. I'm being especially guarded on all fronts which has it's own set of fun side effects. I guess trying to do something different is the first step, but knowing how to take that step sure would be nice. I guess knowing you are going to get hurt makes things hurt just a little less when they eventually get to that point, but it's no more fun. And of course leaves me asking if the means justify the end. If I know something is going to end badly, how good does it have to be until then to make that worth while? I don't even pretend to know the answer to that. Hell, I don't know what I'm talking about with any of this honestly. I do know I honestly don't want to hurt anyone, most of all me.

2007 has been a motherfucker. I really can't wait for it to be over.

I removed some folks from some contact lists tonight. I was really hard to do, but a really important step I think. Tomorrow will be better, I keep telling myself that. One of these days I'm going to be right.

OK, enough emo bullshit for the moment. I picked up an iPod Touch the other day. You know, the one that looks like an iPhone:

Basically it's all the cool stuff on the iPhone but without the crappy phone and camera parts. I'm looking at it more as a laptop replacement than a music device honestly. The thing that sold me was the inclusion of wifi, a real version of Safari, and the size. That combo means I can throw it in my pocket and carry it around all day and do most of the things I used to lug my laptop everywhere for. I've talked a lot this year about trying to use more and more web apps and Gmail and Google Calendar both work flawlessly on there. Google Docs is still a bit sketchy but I've heard that is being addressed already. Anyway, I'm delighted and since so much of what I do is done in a browser anyway, this just makes perfect sense for me. And if I can listen to some music of watch a movie with it as well, even better.

I've been listening to a lot of Fugazi all the sudden for some reason. I don't think I really spent enough time with the last few albums when they came out but I threw them on in the background the other day and fell right back in love with 'em. Damn those guys wrote some good songs.

I'm falling asleep typing which I think is a sign to cut this off. Now where is that cat?