...where the wind comes sweeping down the plains

Yes. The day finally came. I said goodbye to my beautiful Austin, and drove away to this new life. A lot of interesting things can happen once you leave home, in my particular case: It rained for 30 minutes straight and I couldn't see a damned thing in front of me, my car began to stall, my gas card was denied, my car died and I had to leave it in some motel parking lot, and now my precious baby is in the shop. Not to mention I have no home for 30 days, I'm leaving in a furball-infested apartment complex until our house is ready.

I miss Austin already. The music, the faces, the stories. The fantastic drives around town [with no specific place to go] that I was just getting used to. Honest to God, I don't know how we're going to do this. For the next 11-12 months, I am dating a telephone. With a voice over 400 miles from here. I am hanging onto a memory, with every possibility of failing, but I want. I want and if we succeed in this, if we can do this impossible thing, then love is not an obstacle anymore. No, to me, this is the test. How long can we take it? Who's going to break?

Forever.

Ballins, Keyboy, Homegirl, Townsell, Chubbs, Big brother, Kade, Little brother, Zellar, KTQT, Lizard king, Frankus, Foreman, J's, Bloody Brit; all of you are my favorites, each one a different story waiting to be told...