shiv, you're like the little kid on Obner. i mean, you read comics.

shiv was hoping for the "oh hell yeah bro, 22, fug yeah, get r dun."

I'm into 22 year olds...

Leon, how old are you? 17?

why go for the acid? why get chemical garbage over natural hallucenogenics???

shit, get peyote if you can.

You like what you like. I haven't tried peyote, I don't think that it's that easy to find where I am, but it always sounded interesting to me.

Dalen, 17 The answers in the quote above.

Ahem. Peyote is much weightier than acid. Peyote is earth, acid is light. However 'shrooms and a bottle of Puligny-Montrachet and a small kitten that lets you wipe down the walls with her, is a nice combo. But I digress.

This is true imo. One who can push it to the balance of limits of satisfaction(work, friends, family, security etc) one has around them can be pretty damn happy. Life, though, never easy and what dear ayah says . . .



. . . which I can I agree with philosophically. Sometime we give effort in life attaining an idea of happiness rather than time spent living in the moment it arises.


AS far as PoD:

Kids need attention, Marriage needs attention, both need money and obstacles are always in the way, happiness is in between all that goes down and hopefully the security of hard work will pay in happy dividends in the end.

definition of happiness is wanting what you have. "what you have" never makes you happy unless you have learned to want it.

Just got home from a school concert... 11:35ish.

Read the whole thread, i'll read it again tomorrow, thanks for weighing in.

I'm going to take the trash out, and try and get some sleep because I've been pretty short on it, i'm usually 4 hours a night, but it's been alot of 40 minutes, an hour, 2 hours tops for a few nights in a row, and i can feel the insomnia setting in again.

I'm looking forward to not working through the summer, and working on my album. That'll be rad. Another band I'm in is recording with mike mccarthy producing, which will either be cool or end in tears.

http://www.mikemccarthyproducer.com/clients.html

Both my parents are teachers. I forgot to think about this fact when reading the thread, but for them the hardest most stressful part of the year was always towards the end with all the testing and paper work, plus with it being so near the end. I would suspect that something similar could be happening in your case. I would think that a lot of the problems will be solved, at least in the short run, simply by having so much time off during the summer.

I've held a job every summer except for one. This will be my second summer vacation since I started teaching 11 years ago.

I gotta admit, i'm looking forward to it.

I taught the first summer I had a full-time teaching job - and that was the last time I ever considered it. Take the time to figure things out - or , at least identify what needs figuring out.

One last bit, based on what I remember Deena saying when we last saw each other. She mentioned the general idea of wanting to maybe start her own business one day...? Let me put in a plug for not pursuing that at this point in your lives, just in case it comes up in conversations about how to be happier. Depending on the business type, it is as stressful or more so than having a kid... it should only be attempted from a place of marital strength and extreme stability. Otherwise it's likely to be gas on a fire.

Phil, this is worrisome, because if a hip laid-back cat like you can't relax, what chance does an uptight ninny like me have?

In all seriousness, I've had some close calls, mainly when I was getting divorced. If you need some perspective, my inbox is open.

sorry dude, i seriously thought you were really young. no offense meant at all.

I hung out with him for an afternoon at ACL a couple of years ago. I found him blunt, but I can relate to that characteristic, so in general, he was a little odd, but nice enough. Have no clue what he'd be like in the studio. He's produced some great records, so I'd say he's got the knack for getting out of bands what he wants.


Also, FT, excellent work on harry's new subtitle

oh but me you shit all over.

oh stop man, u know i love ya.

This is the Acid Grandfather seek not and thow shalt not want answer that "smart" striving honkies like me would be better served to pay attention to.

Of course, I posted a new profile pic on FB and my brother wrote "Don?" in the comments - meaning Draper. And not because I am smooth or suave like him, but because I am building my own iconic-in-my0mind family existence on the one hand, and chafing against on the other.

perhaps, but there is something to be said in having a full wallet and bare breasts (or in your case, balls) in your face

Fortune Cookie says.... If you are not happy here and now, you never will be . (Taisen Deshimaru)

you and deena need to go on a vacation together and chill

probably won't happen tim. my times off are her busiest at work...

who drinks coffee in the summer? that shit is hot, especially in Texas.