nanovivid

First, the lighthearted stuff. New music downloading discoveries: hybridized.org and Positivenergy.net. Hybridized.org hosts mix sets from Hybrid (as the name implies) as well as Jason Dunne and Nubreed. Lots of breaks stuff there. I haven’t gotten much from Positivenergy yet, but I think they have more trance stuff. Sites with good free music are always welcome into my bookmarks.

New fun site (thanks Andy) — Lost in Translation. It uses Babelfish to translate a phrase back and forth between English and other languages, with often hilarious results. For example, the quote from this entry (I’m not pregnant, am I?) becomes The dog the pregnancy, of that unchangeability is, he who does not think? It must be like this?. As Jenni would say, lol on the floor!

This week has been fun, with a visit to Dawn and Mark’s to hang out with Nathan and Jared (and eat kitchen… I mean chicken) on Monday. Lots of good times there. Tuesday night was the "My Parents Are Gone Ultimate Mexican Bash" at Jenni’s. Yummy food, interesting conversations, Cranium, and Moulin Rouge where the order of the night. Oh, and I went for a really good long run yesterday. I’m so happy it’s getting warm!

Tomorrow and Friday I’m going to a user services conference thingy with Jenni and Andy. Hopefully it’ll be interesting and fun. :-)

Now, a little bit of serious stuff that I need to get out of my journal queue. So… the war. This quote from Martin Luther King Jr. struck a chord with me:

The world is sick with war
And everywhere we turn we see its ominous possibilities.
Wisdom should tell us that war is obsolete;
Experience should tell us that war is obsolete.
If we believe that life is worth living,
If we believe that humankind should survive,
If we believe that all life is sacred,
If we believe that now is the time,
Then we must find alternatives to war.

It’s still frustrating to me. Life goes on undisturbed, and the war is the entertainment (aka news) on tv. And I don’t feel like I am doing or can do anything. So I try not to think about it, which probably isn’t the best thing to do… but I don’t know what else to do but pray for peace for all.

I didn’t meant to end this on a down note, because I’m not depressed. So, um… :-)

♫ Jason Dunne - Q101 Mix (2002-12-07)