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eric on Dec 31st 2006 Random Life Stuff

Go to Hell, 2006!

this year cannot end enough for me.

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eric on Dec 24th 2006 Book Store

Past two days. (Power Ballads, Old Friend and family)

The past two or three days have been pretty hectic. The store is ridiculously busy, but I think this year, I’m basically breaking even. Maybe not quite.

Friday night was pretty cool though. There was a spontaneous acoustic 80’s power ballad sing-a-long at my store. My friend Jason brought is guitar and we sang all the hits of my sad little high school career. It was awesome!

We covered tons of material. From “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” to “18 and Life.” Guns & Roses to Aerosmith. It was a very very fun time.

After that, I had to run to Freeburg (about a billion miles away) to pick up my friend Cole who is in from California… I mean Tennessee. She just moved from California to live in that wonderful little state. She’s hoping to move back soon. But it was great to see her. We watched MST3K and ate clementines.

What a great night!

Yesterday was warmmmmmm. Take THAT old man winter!! Cole and I did some shopping downtown and then I took her home.

My son, Michael then came by. He’s up from Floriduh. And we did the family (well… sort of extended family) thing. And then came home.

Nikki stole my scissors, leaving them “..um… at someone’s house” so I had a bitch of a time wrapping presents using only paper grocery bags and a pearing knife and tape. But everything that is wrappable is wraped.

Today is more family stuff and then probably settling down to do not much at all in the evening. Though, that’s hard to say.

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eric on Dec 19th 2006 Art of My Own, Arts, The, Photography

Two New Pictures

Yard
Amenities

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eric on Dec 19th 2006 Art of My Own, Arts, The, Poetry

what light now



                 bend
                form greater
                those
to
curve

ye
s, found
slope
and could
climb

                don’t you remember the stars in the sky
                where nevada dissolved
                into new mexico and bluest sky to night black

                always
coming back
to you
isn’t i
t?

                sand in shoes
                red mud
                                caked in fenders
                                and clung to
                                sandals
                                for two years
                                since

longer
if you
would look

more if
you would

                carry
                arms
                for more than rivalry between                   

                and lips
                                for more
                                than kissing

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eric on Dec 18th 2006 Art of My Own, Arts, The, Photography

More New Pictures

Here are a few more…

Thinks?

We All
Exit
Empyrean
What Happened in America
Monster Mart

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eric on Dec 7th 2006 Bus Trips, Route 66

Maybe buying a bug?

Well this is an idea that I’ve been thinking about on and off for a bit. If I sell the bus, I could use the money to buy a bug. Bugs on the west coast are MUCH cheaper than bugs on the east coast (and usually better quality too).

I found this bug today:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=375357

Cheap, no? Yup.
Victorville is on Route 66. It’s pretty close to the bottleforest.

Bottle Forest

Anyway, it would be fun to fly out, buy a bug (obviously not this one, though it would be pretty cool, huh?) and drive it back, taking 66 the whole way.

If I move west, though I’ll be closer to much of 66, I wont have the chance to take it from start to finish like I do now.

It would kind of be a good-bye. And just something that would be fun to do.

Maybe in March or April. Hmmm….

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