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another goodbye

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.12.10

Another day in December, another huddle with a friend before I take off for Halifax. This time 'round it was Geoff Hamilton.

We met for "pan-Asian" cousine at a decent/cheap place downtown after I put in notice with my new building management that I'd be leaving at the end of the month.

Amusingly, I also came to a conclusion in the matter of the electronic organizer I'd buy. I decided to go with a $30 non-electronic paper "Day-planner". Apparently you can spend ungodly amounts of money on the paper ones, if you like, but I decided that the $400 that the electronic unit that best served my purposes was far beyond what I wanted to spend.

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force