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Be sure to catch the Holiday Bowl tomorrow (Thursday) evening, ESPN at 5 PM Pacific. You may see a clip of the band; last year I was (apparently) on national TV for about 15 seconds behind Jeff Tedford after the game.

The band has been here in San Diego since the 26th rehearsing and performing; we’ve had at least three hours of rehearsal plus a full uniformed gig every day so far, but it’s also wonderful to have a good amount of free time, which unfortunately comes at night mostly, and the alarm has been fixed at 6 AM for the whole time. Thus, I am always tired. Not so bad though. It almost feels good—I’ve seen the sun rise for the last four days. It seems like a more natural sleep schedule, but it feels unnatural to go to sleep so early; I get lots of things done late. And the city is so alive at night—it’d be nice to come back for a vacation or something when I’m, well, older. Say, in about 9 months.

And lets hope it doesn’t rain. During yesterday’s rehearsal, it poured. It rained like I had never seen it rain ever in my life. It rained so hard I opened my mouth to the sky and had a good glass of fresh water. But weather.com says it won’t, so we should be alright.

More to come later, when I’m less tired. I have a review of my Christmas present waiting, as well as a whole slurry of more philosophical ideas, and of course, lots of pictures.

Ah, and the soundtrack for this trip is Ben Folds, Rockin the Suburbs; particularly tracks 3, 8, and 9.

Just got home from skiing yesterday morning. Tons of fun, as usual. How can anything involving skiing not be fun? Here are some pictures…

That last one almost looks like this In-N-Out T-Shirt...

Just found out my dog Poppy died on Monday. It was something we all expected, like it could happen anytime. After all, she was fourteen years old. But like most things you expect to happen, there’s always that feeling that it won’t happen today, but sometime way off in the future that you don’t have to worry about yet. That’s how this was.

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Yet another semester passes… I’m beginning to undertstand what old people mean when they say it goes by too fast.

On a lighter note, it is good to be free. I leave for Tahoe tomorrow night, and I’ll be on the slopes Sunday through Tuesdayish

This is a rather fun meme that I thought I’d take the time to spread. Parent is Joen Asmussen.

The rules for the playlist meme are simple:

1. Open up the music player on your computer.


2. Set it to play your entire music collection.


3. Hit the “shuffle” button.


4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.


5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.

So, without anxiety or pretense, here are my ten (Title – Artist – Album):

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It’s been a while since I’ve talked about—or even thought about—finishing this web site, but I figured I’d set the path straight; if not for those others interested, then at least for myself. So, read on for a list, in order of importance and probable time of completion, of changes to be made to trisweb.com in the near future.

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Death Cab for Cutie was a band I thought I wouldn’t like, judging the book from its cover. I mean, the name makes them sound like a death metal band, which is of course not even close to my kind of music.

The lead singer Ben Gibbard happens also to be the man behind The Postal Service album “Give Up”, which I loved instantly. The story behind that album is very interesting—it was just a side project for the duo, and I think it was ahead of its time when it was released in February of last year. Only now has it begun to gain widespread recognition.

When I heard Ben Gibbard was in Death Cab for Cutie, I thought I’d give their newest (though still over a year old) album “Transatlanticism” a shot.

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