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killin' time

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2001.05.27

It's good to be back in Canada. Bought two CD's for $18 yesterday. Used, naturally. You can probably imagine my horror when I opened one of them and found that the Headstones CD I was expecting was, in fact, an Eagles CD. I'll have to have it exchanged. Which should be its own special treat.

A search on google.com for my own name revealed that etherlabs.net is back in that most amazing search engine's good books. I also discovered an artist with my name in Düsseldorf. Including myself and the soccer coach in Eisenach that Ken discovered, that's three of us with the same unlikely handle....

Not much new about our Oma's condition yet.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner