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Xmas loot!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.12.25

What a haul of Xmas stuff, this year.

My mum, Heidi, and Ken went together and bought me a new tripod, which is pretty much the model I was looking at getting myself once the income resumed. And my girlfriend gave me some Adobe software for organizing my thousands of photos and writing them to DVD's. A most timely gift given that my new PC has a DVD burner in it.

And I got a DVD set of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere". I'd read the book when it came out several years ago, but it was interesting to see the original.

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