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oh brah, where you stay?

So I figured I’d give ya’all a quick update on life as I currently know it. So here goes –

When I took the job I am now currently in, I moved to the LA area, or more specifically the Orange County area to live with the old buddy Geoff. Initially it was a tough move for me, as California was a difficult adjustment for me when I was really looking for something different after being in Hawaii for three years and California is different only in that it lacked the local charm and backwoods close proximity of the north shore. So I wasn’t expecting to enjoy myself a whole lot, but honestly I figured life could definitely be worse so I wasn’t complaining.

So it came as a bit of a surprise to me this last week, as I was told by my work I needed to relocate in an eastern direction and I packed up to move, how genuinely attached I’d grown to the area and my friends there. It’s rare to find people that accept you as whole heartedly as my friends did down there, and honestly I feel like I was just getting to know many of them. And despite my tendency to chase adventure on every front which elicits frequent moves, leaving friends has never become easy for me. It was a relatively empty drive Wednesday as I left, and I’m more motivated than ever to settle down and put some roots in somewhere. Even as a single guy, stability is a bit appealing eh’?

What then am I doing you might ask? So the plan is to move out east, maybe Boston, maybe DC, maybe anywhere, I’m still deciding, but that’s where I’m headed, sometime in the fall. But Geoff was already off to school again, so the housing situation needed attention, and my solution was to go on a road trip of buddies and friends until I decide to move out east. So I have about 2 months, and right now I’m back up with some Utah buddies, hanging out in Provo now, gonna go drive support car at the Latoja Classic for a Etherington (a 206 mile bike race across 3 states, pretty sweet) visit some old EFY chums, then roll on with a few musts as I make it back across the US (and I’m open to suggestions if you have anything you feel should be on the list)

Yellowstone

Mt Rushmore

Gettysburg (currently reading Killer Angels and I must see)

That’s all I have on the must see list right now, but I’ll have plenty of time I reckon, so give me some suggestions.

Anyway, that’s where I am. Miss my Orange County family out there, and am especially grateful for the friendships they extended to this lil ole missoura farm boy. I continue my nomadic journey, and will keep you posted on how it goes. Much love and aloha.

what makes you happy

so I’m obsessed with my classical music right now. It’s nigh unto 2am and I can’t seem to make myself turn off my Andre Rieu DVD that just came from Amazon yesterday, it the one in the Royal Albert Hall. Quite fantastic. And I’m loving it because of the sheer happiness that overcomes people as they are moved by music, I love that old men find youth again as they waltz around with their wives, and that people’s clapping drives them out of their seats…. all from classical music. It’s amazing to me. I wish that I could have his job, that I was a brilliant musician who just practiced so I could play for people and make them smile like that. I need that job.

One more bit on classical music, I have been trying to verse myself a bit more in what we all take for granted, I’m speaking of the great pieces of classical music that have stood for hundreds of years as masterpieces but are largely overlooked by my generation. I picked up the top 100 classical greats, and have to say, I’m shocked at how familiar many of them are, but at the same time, bothered that I don’t know who did what or what they mean. I will make myself be a skosh more cultured. But it’s not just culture, it’s appreciation for what we have, I saw a ted.com bit on this by Benjamin Zander (check it here) and came away thinking, we really are richer than we deserve, and it’s so fun to see people come into that appreciation. So yeah, I’m just loving the masterpieces of the music world right now.

that is all.

thx.