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(uematsu nobuo - frontier village dali)
I'm, uh...sorry,

I...got a little excited. Whatever you want is okay, right? Um, yeah.
I love you. Always.

Which is a funny word because it doesn't have any words that have to do with time in it.

Filled Phil in about some cracking, network stuff. Sound mastering stuff. Surprised at what I knew, what he didn't Well, it's a situation that gets quickly fixed.

Which is good because I guess I don't like comparisons of others. We're all in different places, you know? You don't just move us around like that. You ever read that book A Wind in the Door? The sequel to A Wrinkle in Time? If anything it's probably like that--kything. The way who we are moves the world around, and at any given point we don't -seem- to move.

But I've gone off the edge of the world in different ways at different times and I -have- moved. I drop off your radar and I pop up somewhere else. Somebody else. Well, sort of. You'll always know it's me, I guess.

(uematsu nobuo - passing sorrow)
At night the moonlight shines dully in from two directions and puts these blue night glows on the walls. Diffuse, soft, gentle. The names we have for things that are...like this. At night at least nothing has to be sharp and distinct. I don't know about you, but my night vision crackles and snows like grainy signal, so that everything is painted a hundred times before it is seen.

Except for the things that really shine in the dark, that come through pretty clear.

I will always remember your smiling face, even if like the camera, I just can't seem to catch the edges.

(uematsu nobuo - melodies of life)
The sothran boys talk about getting the front wheel of a John Deere up, as I wolf down my breakfast. You know, shaking it in my jaws to make sure it's dead, then tossing it up into the air and swallowing it in one gulp? Yeah, like that.

Soon I'll ride out of here to the rest of the world. That's what it's like, here. T_____ doesn't seem too far away now, and hopefully I'll just be able to tear across Texas and make the days pass quickly.

I'm a little bit uncertain, still, but I think you need a little of that to let the light in. With that I'll ride.