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OMG! Check this out. They are so cute.

I overheard this at the bus stop today.

Guy #1 to Guy #2: “What you have 2500 viruses on your PC!”

Guy #3: “Man… that’s a lot a porn”

I finally decided to get my own domain name. So if this is your firs time here, Welcome! After years of sticking with earthlink just so I could retain the same email address I decided to get something that would be a bit more permanent. Not that anything really is, but I’d like to maintain the illusion of permanence. This marks a new era for the richpurcell blog, a new domain-name + a new blog tool = a new look. I decided to join the ranks of most serious bloggers and use a tool that is widely used and engenders a more mature looking blog. Not that I, by any means, have attained a more mature outlook. So if you like the new look, hate it, or just want to say hello be sure to use some of the new features and post a comment, search for a phrase, view the photos, or listen to some music. It’s all here, and yeah, it’s all good.

Music: The National Bank, “Hello, My Name is Fread”

Yesterday I was having a conversation with Lee, a friend in NY, and I was raving over the fact that in eastern Washington for the most part we had no snow. Well it seems I spoke too soon. This morning while leaving for work I was rather surprised to find that the ground was covered with at least three inches of snow.

Next time I should just learn to keep my mouth shut.

Music: Eric Morillo, “Fascination”

So we’re almost finished packing up the apartment getting ready to leave tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to the long drive. It’s funny, I’ve always looked forward, with eager anticipation, to moving to a new area, often with less “emotional detachment difficulties” than the friends and family I left behind. I’ve always had the luxury of being able to look forward to the next big new thing I was moving to, weather it was a new job or new surroundings. I’ve always had the next new thing securely in hand. This time, however, will be the first time I’ll be moving to a cold start, that is without having a job in hand or having secured a place to stay. Both of which I’ll be working vigorously to secure before too long.

I wonder if this is how the old pioneers felt when leaving in their wagon trains to settle the untamed west. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not worried, I’m just concerned =) Moving to the west coast has been a goal of mine for the past six or seven years. Ever since the first time I went to California I’ve been in love with the west coast. That love affair was rekindled after my first trip to Seattle and its still simmers in the back of my mind like the long awaited unrealized desires of childhood fantasies. Yet, at the same time I’m starting to suffer from those same “emotional detachment difficulties” that my friends and families have suffered so oft as I satisfied my wanderlust. Could it be that I’m beginning to (ugh!) “settle down” in my old age?

Music: Underworld, “Two Months Off”

Well, they say the first time is always special, so I guess this must be a really special time for me. With my first blog and everything. Wow, I feel like such a man now.

I am so stoked. I feel like I’m on the top of the world. I’ve got great tunes playing in the background, I’ve just switched to Mac from my life of PC enslavement. I’m discovering so many new things I can do easily with my Mac. It’s funny, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with computers, now I feel like I’m falling in love again. You know things are not so bad on the other side.

Music: timo Maas. Feat Brian Molko, “First Day”