I dropped by Starbuck’s today to see if I could catch Holly. The last time I saw her, she told me her mother had had a series of aneurysms and was in a coma. I saw her today and she told me her mother passed away last week. Man. My heart goes out to her and her family, and my prayers are with her.

Appreciate life and the ones you love, guys. You can never ever say I love you too much.

My computer was dying a slow death the last few months and being the lazy person that I am, I’ve been procrastinating about getting it worked out. Alas, it finally collapsed last week (thank you Mercury Retrograde, you fucking bastard!). Some virus took it out. My email was especially messed up. I have no problem viewing email from the hotmail browser at work, but if I download messages at home, my inbox won’t always let me view it. The techs ended up having to wipe everything out, but the good news is that it seems better. The bad news is that I lost a lot of stuff I had in my inbox that I hadn’t gotten a chance to read because of the problem with my Outlook Express. So if you’ve written me in the last two months and I didn’t write back, drop me a line. Hey Jamie…I got your message…sorry I’m so bad about returning phone calls. I’m famous for my disappearing acts. I wasn’t able to open your Vietnam poem but I really wanted to read it. Can you send it to me again? Hope your move to B.C. went smoothly! And congrats on doing the reading. Very nice! I’m really proud of you and I’m sure you did really well!