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Went to a used book store today and purchased 5 great books for $7. Crazy cheap.
Classics too. The kind you always tell yourself you're gonna read, but never do because you figure they will always be in print, available for purchase..
Look out D.H. Lawrence, you're first on the hit list.
Drove past a store today with excellent poster in the window and stopped in determined to buy something to decorate my barren white bedroom walls.
Payed $5 for a great Dylan poster, only to get home, unroll it, and discover a Star of David Pink Floyd poster.
Odd combination, no?
I will return it on Monday.
Religious symbology, mushrooms and over-rated music don't make for an aesthetically pleasing poster.
(Picture: drove past a beautiful cemetery with ancient pines--couldn't pass it up. Some people think it's macabre, but in a lot of places, cemeteries are the closet things to parks for miles and miles...This, of course is not the case here, where there are parks a'plenty)

Ya, there's no video. Don't adjust your screens. Just listen to the whole thing.

Home sweet bone

"Ronald Reagan was the best president in the history of America."
I need to find a different place to live. Living with Pat O'reily is frustrating.

Chilly like a willy up here

Went out today to interview a dude who makes $15,000 horse saddles out of carbon fiber and about lost it when we were talking about who I needed to speak to in the interview, and he says:
"You wanna do me? Well I want you to do my wife too... Okay then, you do me first then go in the back and do my wife, okay."
Four years of academic training couldn't help me there....
In other news, I got promoted today from an intern to a "full-time, primo reporter."
Interning for 3 days was about long enough I guess.
They better pay up though.
I rather enjoy the structured isolation that a cubicle offers. It's not as bad as people say it is.

Good stuff

"Who ever heard of a bi-cycle?"

I've named it Thor.
Its two wheels of fury will light this town up.
As soon as I figure out how to raise the seat.
In SLC, this bike is worth 3 times what I paid for it here.
A sound investment?
I think so.

The Drive

Ten hour drive:
Sore butt and back
Too much gas
Beautiful scenery, especial between Missoula and Coeur d'Alene...the highlight was when a huge bald eagle flew right next to my car for like, 20 seconds.
Amurica!
But seriously, it was cool.

I have a new best friend. His name is Chompers, and he is a two-week-old golden retriever that lives with me(pictures to come soon).

It was a bug genocide:


I stopped to pee and thought it was a nice mountain worth taking a picture of. :|

Getting Ready

I've begun deciding what I need to take.
...Clothes mostly
I went to the barber and requested a devil's haircut, and now I look like a 12-year-old boy.
It's going to be a 12 hour drive to a town where I don't know a single person.
Living with a woman I don't know for 3 months.
I think I'll play the "Cheers" theme song the entire way up.
My friends are going to places like France and Africa.
Man, will they be jealous!