...or next to it, anyway. :-)


Flew out to Denver yesterday - and I've had a great time out here so far. Granted, the Lubavitcher and the guy who spent time in seminary sitting in the row in front of me sitting there and talking religion the whole damn flight just irritated me a little, but at least I didn't have to sit next to them, you know? So I was able to just put my headphones on and ignore them - didn't feel bad about it at all. :-)


Coming out here has been great for me, though. Just a nice, relaxing time - and it's given me time to do some thinking. I've been working on trying to improve various parts of my life, and having SOME success - but some's better than none, I suppose, right? All things considered, though, I'm pretty happy with where my life is right now. Are things perfect? No, they're not by ANY stretch of the imagination. But I'm becoming more and more ok with the stuff that's not how I want it to be. This is all stuff that I can't really do anything about, so I can sit here and work myself up into a lather, or I can be a bit more realistic about things. Can I directly influence this stuff? No, not really. But I can at least try to do something to adapt to it, you know?


I did a lot of reading on the trip out - finished off my copy of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. There's something in his writing that I just LOVE - the tone, the relaxed nature, something about it.


...and, once again, it's getting a little too loud and too crowded for me to write comfortably here. I'm really not very good with people watching over my back, etc. So, I'll hopefully have the chance to write more at another point during this trip...