I'm not really this buff in person

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Dammit- I had just spent an hour typing out a huge post with all kinds of good stories and pictures, and guess what? Yep.

My normally ultra-stable PowerBook decided to have a freak out moment and crash.

I've gotta go to sleep now- I'll rewrite it tomorrow when I get home from San Diego.



Oh, and....

A TJAYSWIFT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT-

Sorry if it seemed like I dropped off the face of the earth the past couple of days- MY PHONE HAS COMPLETELY DIED ON ME. So not only can I not answer if you call, but I can't even get to my numbers to contact those of you who I needed to... it really made for a shitty day. So if you left a message with no number, sorry.... I don't have many numbers memorized. I really hope I don't lose all of the contacts in my phone- it would be damn-near devastating for me.

I am checking messages periodically, though, and I should be back in the regular swing of communication as soon as I get home tomorrow night and get my backup phone going.

Pray for the poor bastards at Cingular and Palm One who will have to deal with my displeasure if this isn't solved quickly and definitively.

Til tomorrow..... if you wanna check the newer pics before I post (some of) them, they are here.

Niters,

-t

Choose to Change video

... from a few nights ago in Knoxville.

I should have some higher quality videos up soon.

Enjoy!!

Attention men- finally, we have our own day!

Steak and BJ day.....

Yeah, Valentine's day can be a pain in the ass..... all of the flowers, the candy, the dressing up, the expensive dinners, the ass kissing.... at least now we have something to look forward to!

So mark your calendars- March 14. Make mine a filet, medium please. And after that- well, I'm not particular.

-t

more of the same, only different.

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Originally uploaded by tjayswift.

For those of you who have asked, the horses are doing great.... Mia gets sweeter every day, and little Juice is as spunky and curious as ever. I need to take some pics of them tomorrow for y'all. We had a couple of ex-racers come in from Florida to be sold.... and they are some amazing creatures.

First off, let me say that if you've never tried to give a bath to a high-strung gelding fresh off the track in 40 degree weather, you're really missing out.

He is gorgeous, though.


... and as always, you can clicky to make it bigger.

Anyway, we have been blessed with a little good weather recently. Firefighter Jake and I took advantage of the opportunity last week and made a run down to the lake.

Here he is in all of his handlebar-moustached glory.


You see some funny things at the lake when the water's down.

Did anybody lose a cat?


Today we were blessed with 60 degree temps here in East TN..... I test rode a Triumph Speed Four. It felt pretty nice up in the mountains- I think I'm gonna buy it, incase anyone cares.



Sunday I'm heading back down to Austin (yay!!). Planning on watching the Super Bowl at one of my favorite pubs. I'm not really a fan of Seatlle or Pittsburgh, so I'll probably just drink and scream whenever I feel like it. You know, I'm still not sure whether I'm happy or sad that the Colts lost out....

I get to spend about a week at home after Austin before I head on over to San Diego..... Looking forward to meeting one of my cyber-friends while I'm out there.

I've totally been working on a couple of really personal posts in regards to both relationships in general and a particular couple of my past failures, but I'm just never quite happy with the way the words are turning out... it's like they always somehow misrepresent my true feelings.

Of course, that could just be because half the time, I'm not quite sure whether to laugh or cry in retrospect.

Some things change, I guess, and some things never will. Maybe true wisdom is being able to distinguish them from one another.


I'll leave you with this, because it sorta relates-

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. "

-Albert Einstein

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more soon from Austin, TX.....

-t

a very special sepia-toned HNT

.... starring none other than my happy white ass.