The Sun Makers

While I have clearly got some of the greatest friends in the world, who I frequently mention on this blog (probably more than they realize), I thought I would take a moment to thank the others who I don't mention as frequently, but have all helped mentor me and teach me the life lessons that have made me the person I am today.

Lori Behr (My Mother)
Alma Hoffman (My Maternal Grandmother)

Mark Jacobson

Archangelo "Tony" Cecilio

Marge Karpinski
Christopher Frank
David Seltzer
Edie Sherman
Dan Lynch
Susan Handelman
Concettina Lucarini
Sue Park
Gail Paternoster

Eileen Robbins

I doubt I would be the person I am today without the influence of these people, and for that I thank them.

The Hungry Earth

So got a new job today, higher rates than ever before,  I love when that happens. Its a tutoring gig, I hope I'm not too rusty. Tomorrow is going to be my busiest day in a long time; I start off with an early morning carpet cleaning gig, then a shower, then off to NE to help Ivan train the new computer managers, then home for a bite to eat (hopefully), before I go off to my new tutoring gig. Then I have another carpet job on thursday. I can't wait till Friday just so I can finally relax a bit.
At least I have Saturday and Sunday to look forward to, should be the best days I've had in quite a while. There's nothing quite as satisfying as time spent with your best friends.

The Time Monster

People are funny creatures, all about the old and the new. We tend to go towards the old because it is familiar to us, we feel safe and comforted by it, we know it and it knows us and that is why we love it so much.
On the other hand the new is exciting and terrifying at the same time, a whole new world of possibilities, a whole new reality waiting to be discovered, it could bring us to an unbelievably bright future or untold darkness. The only way we will ever really find out is to take a flying leap into the new and hope for the best.
We can not hide in the past as we will be constantly doomed to repeat our mistakes forever, but we must learn from the past and take from it what helped us the most and what held us back the most, and figure out how to replicate the good and avoid the bad. Jump into the new with the knowledge of the old. It is only through the risk of trying the new that we can truly live.

The Fires of Pompeii

It amazes me how someone can watch others suffer with no remorse at all, when all it would take to stop said suffering is to flip a switch. It amazes me more to watch said person, who when the switch was finally flipped on, without a second thought flips the switch back off. Some people are truly not human.

Galaxy 4

I must admit I love when 169 pops up in random places, I especially liked seeing it on my blog counter last night. It's funny how the simplest things can make you smile.

 

See I told you it was there =)

The Myth Makers

I just felt compelled to write out a list of the people (other than family) who I consider myself to be closest to at this point in time, the people that I am most thankful for. If you find that you're not on this list, don't worry it doesn't mean I don't care about you, it just means that I don't think we're all that close. Most people are on this list for different reasons and have all had different impacts on my life. They are in no particular order whatsoever (so don't get mad if you're below X ). It's just whatever order I happen to type them in (well some may be grouped with others I met at the same time, but other than that there's no order)

Paula Sitek

Blake DeCarvalho

Angela Platchkov

Rayn Phillips

Ivan Moutinho

Gladson Thomas

Clara Wong

Gah Tang

Ricky Zhao

Olga Voronenko

Tasveer Khawaja

Gurinder Singh

Charis Trinidad

Vincent Nguyen

Philip Chen

Amy Chau

Min Zheng
Sandra Trinh

Eugene Olkhov

Josh Belitsky

Michael Krolikowski

Brad Jacobson

Tammy Sloan

Richard Wendler-Hass

Richard Devlin

Ciril Abraham

Eliot Shtruzberg

Kristi Vojniku

Sheharyar Sohail

Fawzi Habib

Kris Rielly

Jimmy Lam

Samantha Joy

The funny thing is no matter how absolutely off-beat the people on this list are, I love them all the more for it.

I hope that I can keep all of these people in my life, I know that if this list had been written last year, it would have included quite a few additional names. Names of people who I've simply lost contact with and I hate that I have, but maybe its all for some reason, only time will tell.
But while this list may have lost names from one that might have been written last year, it also includes more people that I have become closer to within the past year, and I think that is simply fantastic.

Terminus

New Rule: From this point on I will only be bothering with the people who care to have me in their lives. The people who actually bother to get in touch with me every so often. So I may loose a few "friends". Odds are if I haven't talked to you in the last 3 months, your not that great of a friend anymore anyway. You're now an acquaintance, want that to change make an effort. I'm tired of fighting this one sided battle. It's unbelievable how much college is able to change some people. So you're life has changed a bit, get over it, all of our lives have changed, that's what college does, it's no reason to just write off everyone from your past. So if at the end of the day I have less friends than so be it, I'd much rather have a few friends who actually bother to keep me in their lives than many friends who couldn't give less of a shit about me.
The winds are changing, time to set sail in a new direction.