a new year.

And I've been busy with it. I think I've worked less than 7 days since christmas. I've been away a lot. Went to Spooner, WI for New Years. Ice skating and snow-shoeing. Good times. More enjoyable than I would have thought. I like it outside. Now I'm in New York. Have been on the East Coast for a week. Spent a few days in Philly. Eating a ton of food, which is great, and terrible at the same time. Horizons, Govindas, Soy Cafe, Red Bamboo, a bunch of others that I can't remember the name of. A ton of delicious, basically. Saw a bunch of old Philadelphia friends I haven't seen in a while, and that was nice. Talked to a couple of my old bosses. Everything seems mostly the same. I like Philly. I just wish it were more green. And less ghetto/dirty.

I like New York, which is only funny because I've spent most of my life hating it. It's big, it's loud, it's dirty, it smells...just a bunch of no good. I think I've felt that way because I've never spent more than a day there, and never without my bike. I find it is a lot easier to enjoy a city that you don't know when you don't have to get off a bike to look at a map. It's just a lot slower paced on foot, and I like that more.

Art. I get it now. I never did before. It's pretty rad. I got over myself, mostly, I think. Perhaps something inside me shifted to make it valid. I don't need to understand it. I can't explain it, and I won't try. Art is cool with me.

Yeah. Who knows. Getting time to choose something to do for an education. I think I might have it figured out. I've "had it figured out" no less than three times in the past, though. I have no idea. I think the game is just going to be register and sign up for some classes. Take it from there.

That's all I got, mostly. I just wanted to congradulate a friend of mine on his engagement. That's pretty cool news, dude.