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Classic DF – 9/3/04

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2 AM In WarwickIt’s 2 AM outside my house. I’ve just come home from a momentous night of change and turmoil. The past two years have been nothing, but one constant change of life. From my marriage collapsing, to learning to live on my own, to growing up finally into a man, and to becoming the father my daughter not only needs– but deserves. These are the things that I have faced. No sooner did one thing pass one way did life decide to pull me the other. My conscious decisions had a lot to do with all of this though and I now realize that. The choice was mine the whole time no matter how helpless at times I felt. I just had to choose. So here I am in the middle of my choices. I have closed a huge chapter in my life and begun a new one. It is time to put all these old things behind me. It is time to move onto the next page. This is all a reflection of this. My choice to continue on to bigger and better things begins here with a refresh of my virtual image that is digitalflood.com. I feel the layout is simplistic, but beautiful. You’ll find more focus on art and music. That is where we are going here. Two new albums (yes… now it’s two) are on their way. New art also. The site is going to be less of a focus on my personal life than ever (and that was null before) though a blog will eventually surface. I thank you to all the readers who continue to visit and I hope the newbies who show up will find something here. As always, thank you for riding this journey with me that is life.

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Classic DF – 11/14/03

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November 14, 2003: [•] A lot has gone on in the past month. Too much to recall in one post and most of it is of no interest to you the web viewer. Just mundane everyday stuff that I dare call my life. Work is insane. The workload is near the point of break, but that is my industry and it is something I love. I’ve been fixing a lot of issues lately and resolving many long standing situations that needed addressing. It feels good to know that the network is healthier today than when I found it and that new products are on their way because of some personal effort on my part. I cannot deny that we are a team at work and I have become a team leader of sorts. Once again I assume the role of the trench Sergeant and try to lead those I’m placed in charge of to victory. The road will be bumpy. Our competition is also launching new projects. It is go time on the battlefield that is IT communications and I am smack dab in the middle. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Gette. We have truly bonded on a new level just by spending so much time together. She’s so bright and beautiful. I took off this past week and dedicated it to her. 24/7 of nothing, but giving her my personal attention, which is what she deserves. With work sometimes I feel she gets lost in the background. This is my way of making those lost minutes up to her. I appreciate the understanding of not only my employer, but my ex-wife too. Both have been patient in my rather unique living situation that is single fatherhood and both deserve kudos for their continued efforts to work with me. I thank you all. This week has been of one of quietness. The last couple of weeks someone was following me. I’m not even kidding. It was a PI of sorts clearly tracking me for whatever reason. They have since stopped. I don’t do anything wrong and my life is rather boring. I have nothing to hide. I proud of my pure normality. In a world gone mad I am one of the few exceptions of sanity because I refuse to succumb to the sickness that is our society. Weeks ago in a post below I talked about rebirth and the new me. I haven’t lost any of that. I am different. Some like it. Others don’t. What is reality is real and we cannot go back from it. We must keep moving forward and inevitably some will be lost in the confusion. I’m sorry. There is no stopping now. Evolution is revolution and this is it. I slid off the road two weeks back. Ended up all of five feet from somebody’s house. I hit some leaves with my car on a bad rural turn and was launch into a tailspin. Damn near almost bit it I reckon. Reflections abound from that experience. I thank God for good reflexes and driving skill. I could have not been allowed to post this post had I actually found that house with my domicile seeking missile that is the ZX3. Someone out there obviously is either looking out for me or knows I have more work here to do. Either way I’m grateful to God above for allowing me to type this to you all. Like I said there is many other misadventures to talk about, but those are minuscule compared to the rest. The new music is literally beyond all belief. No one gets it that I’ve showed so far. I don’t care. The next wave will even be more out there. I’m looking at a break through in musical creativity. Like I said, evolution is revolution. And the time to revolt is now. Rise up and be counted.

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Classic DF – 10/11/03

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October 11, 2003: [•] My life has reached an evolutional plateau. I am quite happy by this. Now that change has stagnated I can focus on who I am and what I believe. I can follow my set course of action and stick to my ideals. Things are excellent. For the first time in a long time I am not only happy, but content too. Yes content and happy. My life is back in full effect. I have decided after the result of this year’s impromptu DigitalFl00d party that I want to become straight edge again. Not because I had a bad drinking experience. No, it’s not because I think things are out of control. It’s just I’m tired of alcohol. Thus I think my overall mid-life crisis with alcohol passes without much ado about anything. I’ve grown bored with certain things. Things I don’t need. So like dead leaves those things fall off. Two things consume me. Primarily being a father. I have become even more hard pressed to continue to be dedicated 150% to my daughter at all times. Secondary, to work hard to continue to prosper to insure her successful future. I have begun to fine tune the songs I’ve been working on. The rap thing seems to be slipping away, but whatever it is that I am creating is all that much better. I will not seek to define it other than mind blowing.

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Classic DF – 6/1/03

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June 01, 2003: [•] First off, you may have noticed that DF.com was down on May 30th. Around Midnight a severe thunderstorm killed power for most of the Town of Warwick, NY and though electricity came back on around 3 AM for most of the Town the server itself wasn’t so lucky. Rock revived it around 5 PM later that day though and it’s been back up since then (obviously). Friday was my last day on the Help Desk and my last day as Lead Technician. It was thoroughly uneventfully yet not without an odd feeling in the air. Hanging right above my head was the next two weeks schedule. This week I was marked for vacation, but the week after I was no longer there. It just felt odd to see a schedule for the first time in four years where my name didn’t reside on it. My new job as a Network Specialist will be tough at first. There is a lot for me to learn and a lot that I want to learn though maybe not necessarily required. I’ve been told I’m going to be focusing on web page design, hosting, server administration, and television production. That’s a mish mosh of tasks and a venerable plethora of job skills will be required. I’m up for the challenge though and look forward to finally putting my multimedia art skills to their limits. I will miss the Help Desk nevertheless. I spent over four years on that job working my butt off and though I believe I did contribute a good amount of skill to it I know that there are many things that feel like they are going to be left unfinished. No doubt some of that can be addressed though as I’ll probably end up helping out over there time to time. So all in the end the change is for the better. Speaking of change, I picked up my new 2003 Ford Focus ZX3 yesterday. Two disappoints: First, no rear disc brakes. Second, no sub-woofer. Still it’s a good deal and at least I got most of what I wanted. I’m very happy with my payments and the car itself. Though I’ve driven it a total of 5 miles I feel like I’ve had it for years. It fits like a glove and I think it better suits my personality than the sedan version. Gette likes it too. The rear seats are noticeably higher in the hatchback than in the sedan. The result is she can now see out the rear window. For the first time ever she demanded to go into the car instead of walking to my mom’s (around the corner), which she NEVER had requested before. She hated being put in the other car, but this one she simply says “Me go Daddy’s car”. Sounds like a plan to me 😉 As far as Daddy/Baby time goes vacation has been great. On that note, it’s time for Sponge Bob Square Pants so I’m off to spend time with Gette.

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Classic DF – 4/5/03

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April 05, 2003: [•] The US military is learning more about the Iraqi culture everyday such as what tattoos guerrilla warriors have and how the condition of people’s feet could indicate whether they are a solider or a farmer. [•] US forces have secured the newly named Baghdad International Airport and continue to conduct raids on the city to weaken Iraqi forces. Of course, the Hussein regime denies all this and says everything is just peachy for their forces. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. [•] Work has begun on a SARS vaccine. [•] An ex-senior leader of the East Timor militia, Jose Cardosa Fereira, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for war crimes. [•] At least 60 people died after a ferry sunk in Bangladesh. [•] Serbian police have detained 7,000 people as they continue to search for suspects in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. [•] Apparently the colors of US food ration packets and US bomblets are both yellow in color. As a result confused Iraqi civilians seem to be chasing bomblets instead of food as it drops which is definitely not a good thing. DOH! [•] Mexican authorities have arrested Arturo Hernandez Gonzalez on charges that he is a drug cartel. [•] Sunday morning (2am to be exact) it will be time to roll forward an hour as Daylight Savings Time is over. [•] Michael Kelly, editor-at-large for The Atlantic Monthly, was killed while covering a story in Iraq. He is the first reporter to die while “embedded” into a military unit. [•] Federal and State government officials are pushing to make soldiers KIA become US citizens automatically if they are not. [•] US Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks started giving the Central Command daily briefing this week instead of CentComm chief commander Gen. Tommy Franks and while it is not known why Brooks will certainly continue to be the man at the podium for the time being. [•] A man in Texas has been charged with chaining up his wife up after she tried to leave him. [•] Over 50 million records have been posted publicly online of various historical archived legal documents. [•] The RIAA is now targeting specific individuals for copyright violations. [•] Six more moons have been found around Jupiter. [•] The Smallpox vaccine holds danger for those with heart problems. [•] The CDC says that spraying pesticides to kill mosquitos to prevent the spread of the West Nile Virus does not pose any immediate threats to humans. [•] Your early warning sign of a chemical attack could come from your lucky four leaf clover in the near future and do mean that literally. [•] Digital telephone services are driving the FBI nuts because they are currently so hard to tap into. [•] AOL wants federal regulators to loosen regulations on the IM protocol. How do you want to monopolize the industry today? LOL [•] Sony is making sure that it’s new DVR will work with broadband connections. [•] Pennsylvania has made ISPs in the state block a whole list of illegal child pornography sites from being viewable through those ISP’s services, but no one can publicly disclose the list because that would be illegal too. Talk about ironic. [•] I don’t know what the video of Saddam Hussein among “his people” says to you, but it sure likes like a pre-stage propaganda tape to me. Very… ummm… Nazi-like. That very likeness is scary in and of itself. [•] Honda has announced its Third Annual Civic Tour. [•] Motor Trend once again updated its forecast for the next Corvette. [•] I didn’t do much yesterday. Hung out with V after work. Just a quite evening spent vegging out. Tonight I pick up Gette and I am understandably excited about seeing my daughter (but of course). Not much else going on. [•] Bored? I’m not a big fan of Atlantis or even supporting the idea that it existed, but when you find hot chicks like this on a page it does make it somewhat easier to digest no matter how loony the reason for the site she’s on might be. 😉

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