Monday Morning II

Although there is no specific connection to the previous post it is likely that alot of posting will be done on Monday's since it is my one weekday off and immediately follows the weekend where most of the world's population has been conditioned and brainwashed to engage in most of their free time activities after a week of being a slave to our corporate economy. Now that I have gotten a little cynicism out of the way I can move on.

I spent this weekend in Amherst/Stevens Point Wisconsin celebrating the birthday of one of my friends as she turned 30. Her band played the party and I also got to see the rehearsal the night before marking the first time I have seen her live since I got the CD they made years ago. I drank too much beer, smoked too much everything, and got barely any sleep. Being in the 'country' and away from the hustle and bustle of the city is important to get some perspective, some peace of mind, and the aforementioned drunk. I went up with my roommate and close friend as we both lived with the girl during our college years.

We left on Friday night about 6:30 and as we are getting ready I am putting music on my ipod and suddenly notice that about 13GB of music is missing from my computer. Pretty much my whole collection of which I no longer have the cds given my now minimalist lifestyle. This really pissed me off something fierce but I had to get it out of my head as I headed north to enjoy the various festivities. I successfully managed not to dwell or even mention the problem to anyone else deciding it was best to deal with once home on Sunday. I get home last night and after unloading the car and what not I tackled the computer problem. Doing what I think everyone does when they have a problem these days I searched the almighty internet. My first searched yielded the results I was looking for and by the time I went to sleep I had recovered all my lost music files. Super freaking awesome.

Monday Morning

Just got off the phone with one of my dearest friends who has to have back surgery to fix a bulging disk. The news is sad to hear but at the same time great that we had a great long conversation about everything we have missed out on in each others lives as of late. Which leads me to one of my new goals: do a better job maintaining current relationships. I want to create new history with people I have known a long time so that we are more than just old friends. It has been a very strange journey these last many years and all the moving around and change that has gone on in my life has put the focus back on my personal relationships and how important it is to me that those remain up to date and healthy. There are many different kinds of friends with a wide range of closeness and familiarity and it is not always easy to make sure you are keeping up with the ones that are the most precious to you. I had a conversation with a longtime friend of mine about how lucky we are to know the people we do and how we need to utilize each others talents to figure out and challenge each other on how we are living and what we are living for. Life for my generation has been much different than that of most of our parents and much less clear on what and more importantly how you are supposed to do things especially for those of us who's parents are not in any position to council us on our lives when they have a hard enough time with their own. I have no conclusions only questions and ideas that are ever changing.

My tooth can't handle the truth

Went to the dentist today for the first time in years and years and as suspected it was not good news. It was not horrible news but mostly just really expensive sounding, close to $1000 when all is said and done. I have to have my teeth rooted and planed which means they will scrape under my gum where all the bad stuff lives and I guess that going to give me a chance to improve my dental hygiene permanantly if I begin to have a strict regiment of care once I get the super cleaning. It was depressing on so many levels. Financially and physically I am kind of in disbelief it was much easier to live in blissful ignorance but I am guessing it will be much better to live and informed life full of teeth, my teeth. Its almost hard to belive I did this to myself but easy to understand how it happened.

Previously in Chester's Life.....

Here I am back in Milwaukee trying to revive my blog, my writing, and my sanity. I am sure any previous readers that I had are now since long gone but I persist none the less. Getting your life interrupted can change things in ways you never perceived and one of those changes was unfortunately the discontinuation of this blog. I stopped writing initially due to moving from Los Angeles to Milwaukee and I was too busy organizing what remains of my possessions and trying not to go crazy all at the same time. Upon my most triumphant return to brew city my living situation unsettled led to more of me not writing. It is a shame too because I had so much energy at that time and there were a lot of things happening to me and then once the energy waned and some of what I see as negative things occurred leaving uninspired and listless. I don't know if there is a tunnel or a light at the end of said tunnel but if there is and I can see it I may be emerging from it as I type these very words, kind of a stranger than fiction kind of thing if you are up to date on your pop culture references. I find that as my life becomes more organized I am more frustrated by my lack of decisive living and getting less enjoyment out of my usual distractions. Hopefully this will spark some positive change in my life that I feel has been missing lately but that I feel closer to now than I have in months.