"Peel the years back, see it all. Written on the subway wall"

The frivolous:
1) I have recently rediscovered an album that has turned into a guilty favorite of mine. Back in 1989, Dion (of Dion and the Belmonts/Runaround Sue fame) cut an album for Clive Davis(the inspiration for Santana's comeback) called "Yo Frankie." Chart wise it didn't do all that much, a tune he did with Patty Smythe (And the Night Stood Still) did become a fairly minor hit.

The material on the album is good. However, two songs in particular are almost transcendent. "Written on the Subway Wall/Little Star"(w/Paul Simon guest vocals) and "King of the New York Streets" are among some of the best pieces of music I have heard in the pop genre in a hell of a long time. This album has faded into the mists, and I thought I would take a second to shine a spotlight on it.

"It's Just a frozen yesterday
To make it more would take away
Remember the wonder of It all -
Written on the subway wall"

2.) I have found Jimmy Hoffa and DB Cooper. They are currently residing in the trunk of my bosses car.

3) In a venomous discourse I uttered today about Celine Dion, I found out that a large number of Canadians hate her as well. For public record, I will state that she is the most convincing argument I have ever been able to find for invading Canada.

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The Serious:
Over the last few months I have been in an introspective mood. As my friends will admit, I get that way often, it's just that lately I have been a bit more vocal about it.

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Busy Day.

At my college each student is required to some sort of independent study project as a final capstone for their degree (Associate, Bachelors, Masters). It's kinda like a modified internship except your actually working with someone who doesn't treat you as a slave laborer.

Well I found out what I am going to be doing my Associates Project. Due to my expertise and good performance, I am going to be working with the Bachelors degree program and setting up a complete enterprise from scratch.

Web and application servers, applications themselves, etc. etc. For the kicker, it is also going to be a sanctioned beta test of Microsoft 2003 Server. The pressure is most definitely on, especially since everybody else in the project is almost finished with school/training, and there is a 40 page term paper/summary/analysis of the project due at the end of it. I've got about a week and a half to slam through this stuff and learn it all ahead of time. Also, since this is a summer semester in a transitional quarter (going from 12 to 15 weeks) the Summer quarter is only 7 weeks long.

I have the sneaking suspicion that this summer is not a "rest and relax" summer this time around.

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Oh, I managed to get my webpage final exam done a week ahead of schedule...it's at http://home.earthlink.net/~rdisfunc

If anybody is willing too, take a look and post me a note as to what you think.