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Interestingly enough, when I parked my car at work today, there was a squirrel standing in front of me, staring straight at me as I coasted into my favorite parking spot. I think he was freaked out that he might get run over. I could never hurt a squirrel! Well, maybe if it was radioactive.

I have finally been hit by the cicada plague. For a while, it sounded like a bunch of hype. People at work were talking about how terrible it was having a bunch of cockroach-sized bugs crawling/flying around everywhere, but I hadn’t seen any. I had just heard their sound in the distance while in the parking lot where I work.

It all changed on Saturday night. More on that later.

Last week, I got my new woods lengthened. I got to try them out at a best ball tournament Saturday morning. We played at The Gauntlet, which happens to only be 10mins away from my parents’ house. It was a great course. Our team ended up in 4th place out of 6, with a score of 72 (even). My woods also kicked major ===. For the first time in my golfing life, I can hit long shots consistently straight with my driver! I think it’s because hitting my woods is now almost exactly like hitting my irons, so my natural swing works for everything. I don’t have to remember two ways to hit.

After the game I took a nap. That afternoon, my sister was having all her friends over for a pre-prom dinner party. This year, she went to prom by herself. Pretty crazy, but she enjoyed it. I guess girls like to dress up and stuff :p I didn’t want to hang around with a bunch of high schoolers, so I went to Fair Oaks to play a game of Babylon 5. Yeah, yeah, nerd alert! It’s like what people did before video games.

So anyway, at 2am, I left for home and was immediately swarmed by cicadas hanging around the porch light. Three of them followed me into my car. As you know, I HATE insects, so a swarm of cicadas was my worst nightmare. So the ride home wasn’t fun. I thought I had killed them all that night, but this morning I heard another one buzzing in my back seat. I never did find him….. And as soon as I do, he’s dead!

Now there are a bunch of dead cicadas on my deck, because they fly up all 21 stories to try and hook up, but end up starving cuz there’s no food here.

This weekend, I play some paintball down in Fred. I’m considering getting my very own gun.

New CDs as of late:

Strauss - 5 Great Tone Poems - Features Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash - It looks like someone took a circular saw to the case (there’s a small cut at the top of the case’s binder), but the CDs are in great condition. Good set of mixes from the king of Ambient.
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites - Yeah, I hated the swing fad, but you have to admit that the SNZ’s are fun to listen to. Swing music is OK as long as you don’t dance to it.
Devo - Greatest Hits - Yeah, greatest hits are a no-no, but it was there and it was cheap. And you know I’m a sucker for synth pop. I’m a man on a mission, a boy with a gun, got a picture in my pocket of the lucky one!