// a post way overdue

The aspirations of this post will be to hopefully set the record straight and settle a long overdue matter. It's been over four years since I made a new entry on this blog. Looking back over it, one thing stands out predominantly to me about it that is yet completely unseen by any visitors to it.

This blog was written, word for word, entry by entry, for, to and about one single person...

As Tobey Maguire once said, "...let me assure you, this, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl. That girl. The girl next door."

Sadly, the girl that I wrote every single word that is time capsuled on this blog for, never knew it was written all for her. Every post I left here over the time span this blog covers was written for her: to impress her, to make her laugh, to make her smile, to make her think, to make her cry, to make her...something...anything...lots of things...I wrote them all for her...

If there had never been a her, there never would have been these words. If it seems a lot to write for a single person, let that stand as a tribute to what a person she is. All that I wrote, all that she made me think and feel, all the words that fill the spaces of these pages still falls woefully short to impart to any reader who stumbles or purposefully strides to these entries and reads them to explain the marvel that this girl was and is to me. The saddest part is, again, that I never told her that it was all for her. Which is why this post had to be written, is being written, to hopefully right that wrong.

While looking for a way to illustrate, to impart to any and all who'd read, the sheer marvel of the girl I wrote these for, I happened to be researching her favorite flower...

She adores the Daisy, you see, and it has a most peculiar quality. The flower is quite resilient. Once it's roots are planted and it's grown straight and strong, it can withstand lack of water and too much sun, the elements don't easily overcome it. This very delicate and beautiful flower can go without being watered and stand the sun's heat and still remain straight and strong without wilting.

A more perfect comparison could really not be made about the girl of whom I speak. While I failed to water this beautiful flower and bathe her in the sunlight she needed to grow the way she deserved, she nonetheless stayed, rooted in her convictions, straight and strong, refusing to wilt away.

To end where I began let me say again this matter needed straightening out. I hope that now she'll know, and knowing, will smile her sweet, beautiful smile understanding it all at last.

Finally, would you like to know who she was? This girl who meant so much? I'll share with you her name and a place where the memories still remain...

Thank you, Terry. You were the reason for it all.

// itunes 7

Apple has completely updated and expanded what is, I think, their best program: iTunes.

They've also changed the iPod lineups extensively.

Go check 'em out.

// online ipod

I came across this awhile back and, after trying several obscure bands and musicians with successful results, I concluded that it's pretty neat.

I wonder how long it'll stay active before a lawsuit shuts it down?

Oh well. Enjoy it while it lasts.

// football

It's almost that time of year again.

As I like to say every year around this time, quoting the words of Jack Dundee:

"When the first leaf of autumn falls forlornly to the barren ground below."

Football season.

It's almost here.

Are you excited?

// world of warcraft

Man, they don't call it World of War-crack for 'nuthin.

I'll be back.

Eventually.

I think.