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An unexpected opportunity presented by a woman might cause an alteration in your present career plans, dear Pisces. This is likely to change your life as well as your career, so be sure you explore every avenue and learn as much as you possibly can before committing yourself in any way. For one thing, relocation – or at least a lot of travel – may be necessary. Weigh all your options carefully and objectively. However, change is still strongly indicated.

I am now in possession of three new pairs of shoes and a haircut that makes me look dead sexy.

Announcing: Halloween party, our house, Friday, November 1. You are all invited.

Yesterday was an exercise in either poor communication or just coincidences. At work, coworker E. and I decided to get some lunch while waiting for some data to come in. We walked down the the cafeteria and found nothing appetizing, so we ventured further to the pizza shop in the building’s mall. I had a slice of chicken and broccoli pizza.

At this point, everything is just fine. But later on, our department is staying at the office late to work on a presentation, and our boss M. decides to order dinner for us (without taking suggestions first). He orders pizza. I had a slice of mushroom (do you know how they grow mushrooms?) and a slice of plain cheese pizza.

Beautiful. Wonderful. Yummy. I finally get out of there and catch the 10:00 train back home. I arrive, hop in the cab, only to receive a phone call from Denise saying she’s waiting at the station to pick me up.

That’s not really part of the story.

I arrive home, and M-D and Darren greet me with… you guessed it… pizza. So I had a slice of pepperoni stuffed crust pizza and called it quits. “Quits,” I said, “you are my last piece of pizza. Ever.”

Of course I lied about the “ever” part.

“If you wish for something it may happen, but not in the way you might expect. Every cloud has a silver lining, and every silver lining is a cloud. We’ve all been there. We’ve all said, ‘If I could just have that car, everything in my life would be great,’ and then you get the car and it’s in the shop half the time, and it doesn’t run right and the radio doesn’t work. We buy into an image, we buy into what we think we want and then when we get there, sometimes what we thought it was isn’t what it really is.”

-Bob Gale (writer of Back to the Future) talking about his new film Interstate 60.

So, what music do I like? What have I listened to lately? I can’t seem to think of any music I’ve really enjoyed in the past several months. Am I still a musician? I don’t even know.

I should have taken that job I was pretty much offered in May 1999. I had a great interview for an assistant band director position at a high school in south Jersey. He asked if I’d be available over the summer to start. Instead of saying YES, I mentioned something about a commitment I made to a drum and bugle corps to drive a van for a few months, which I would break IF I got the job. If I had just said YES… my life would have been so much different if I had been less stupid.

Well, you live, you learn, and here I am.

I saw the Signs and it opened up my eyes. I saw the Signs. No one’s gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

It was a good movie. Not as good as The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable. It wasn’t as scary as other people have thought, but maybe I just don’t get scared by movies. I also didn’t find it as preachy as other people had warned. It was lots of fun, and I always like M. Night’s conclusions.

Cmdr. Riker finishes his encounter with a young woman, unsatisfied because he’s on duty and doesn’t want to get involved with her. He contacts the bridge through his communicator.

RIKER: Captain, if you need me, I’ll be on Holodeck 4.

Self, check out these weblogs/journals when you get a chance: Colourblinded and In Spite Of Years Of Silence.

Listen, I’m sorry he tried to kill your daddy. Revenge as a justification for war is only for the weak and stupid. But you’re right, it’s not a “partisan” issue. It’s a human issue. When something is not going your way it’s easy to call it “partisan.” Hopefully this is the last thing I’ll write on here about a “War on Iraq.”

On a lighter note, make your own Bush speech. (He will read what you write.) It’s a fun way to make him sound even more confusled and befudded, but the website may be slow to respond since everyone seems to be checking it out.

Subemotional egoism.

As the saying goes, old Hobbits die hard. Well, they would have to be really old. In any case, my Hobbit name is Posco Boffin of Whitfurrows. What’s yours? Tell everyone in the comments below.