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You know that earlier journal entry entitled "On My Way At Last"? Well, I'm really feeling it now. As I've said many times before, I don't have resolutions but rather mottos or mantras for the year. If this WERE a resolution, in the past couple of months I would have considered it accomplished with flying colors. First off, if you missed it, I got a Daily Deviation on April 19th for "Star Light Star Bright"! I'm still in awe of that and don't really know what to say. It got me a bit curious as to how I got to that point then I got nostalgic, remembering how I got started with dA (like many good stories, it starts with a stalker... seriously,

like it's my job. Seriously, I said I wasn't dead yet. I had been holding lots of stuff back for some unexplainable reason. So why the sudden interest on uploading this treasure trove? I fell asleep early, that is before midnight, and managed to wake up around 4 or 5. This is strange behavior for me as my normal schedule for the past year has been getting off work around 8, eating supper and playing around for a few hours, and heading to bed a little after midnight only to wake up around 9 or 10. Because I can. :) A 2nd shift job may kill your social life at times but it's almost worth it to sleep in every day. Besides the point. So at 5 I re

This past year Rush, my favorite band, released a new album entitled Clockwork Angels. At first I didn't know what to make of it. Rush is known for their early epic rock ballads like 2112 and story like songs such as Cgnus X-1, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, and Lothlorien (after Lord of the Rings). This takes the concept a step further and the entire album is a story of a country boy tending an apple orchard living in a steampunk world of airships and wonders he has only imagined. One day he hops aboard an airship caravan, in which he remarks "On my way at last!" and "In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big" to see the world an