This failed to get posted a few days ago, and I just found it. Thank good­ness for auto-saving drafts!

I got an email from John B. today! So that's one per­son I can cross off my list of long-lost friends I need to get in touch with. Now just 15 to go…And I'm sorry James, Jason, and Katie. I know I owe you all a good long email or phone call. I really will get on that one day. I've just been a her­mit on IM lately.

The news from John is this:

I plan on being back there some­time within 18 months or some­thing.  I grad­u­macate in decem­ber, going to stick around here for a lit­tle bit and work
for the ambu­lance and FD to get some outside-of-C of O-experience.  Still plan­ning on return­ing to KC to join the FD, just got to get some more expe­ri­ence before I'm com­pet­i­tive there.

I had a thor­oughly unpro­duc­tive night. I spent sev­eral hours mak­ing a new page of silly quiz results for my web­site. Yeah, it's com­pletely silly and worth­less, but I fol­lowed my usual guide­lines when I make a deci­sion: Will this result in jail time or merely a large fine? and Will my par­ents find out? Assum­ing the answers were good ones, since I'm too lazy to bother answer­ing my own ques­tions, I went ahead. And now the whole world can know that I am Anakin Sky­walker, Winnie-the-Pooh, a golden retriever, JFK, died noblely at sword­point in a pre­vi­ous life, an earth sprite, and utterly numb deep down inside, among other things.

The next addi­tion to the site will likely be answers to var­i­ous email sur­veys from times gone by where you answer dozens of triv­ial and some not-so-trivial ques­tions. I'm basi­cally a web whore.

Also I was snoop­ing around on the web reread­ing my favorite Tay­lor Mali poems. I thought I would share some words of wisdom:

Do your­self a fla­vor and fol­low these two Pisces of advice:
One: There is no pros­ti­tute for care­ful edit­ing.
And three: When it comes to proof­read­ing, the red penis your friend.