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Delaying my blog upgrade, I began preparations in earnest for my return to school again yesterday. Ironically to me, it is now ten years since my high school graduation and the third time I’m attempting to complete a higher education program. I am inspired by my fiance’s sister Olivia, who’s only got a half year left at UCLA, her third attempt to complete a higher education program (we’re just about the same age too).

Since my admissions application had been accepted at the Reading Area Community College (RACC), I had a few tasks to complete. First was to schedule my placement testing, then I had to get the necessary transcript paperwork from SMC, where I spent a semester at last fall. I ordered a rush delivery on this order as my placement testing is next Monday and they recommend delivering your transcripts at that time. I already have copies from my first stint back in 2000 at the Bradley Academy (now an Art Institute) for multimedia and my high school transcripts at Upattinas. My rush transcripts are costing me $42.25 for two copies, rushed via FedEx’s 3-day Express Saver service.

I’ll be resuming my efforts in working towards some sort of degree in computer science/technology, most likely their Web Site Development Concentration
Associate in Applied Science Degree. I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for the last several years to teach myself programming and such but I just don’t have the same level of concentration and memory retention that I do in a more structured environment, at least at this point in my life, hoping that changes as I get older and find my patience.

Hopefully the 3rd time’s a charm scenario holds true here, if not I’ll most likely have to on from my hopes of programming. Math never was my strong point and the kind of critical thinking involved with this kind of work isn’t always there for me. My determination only strengthens with time though so I’m really optimistic about my commitment to it now.

2007 was an amazing year of growth and change, on many levels; also, this year’s end saw my one and only Golden Birthday:

(Check out the rest of my birthday pics from at the Edison)

The year started out with a 3-week visit home after my mom broke her arm, shortly after New Years 2007. I spent almost 2-weeks at home with her to help out with her rehab, got her set up with a new Mac, and generally just spent a lot of quality time catching up with her and some of the other family members.

I then bounced down to Florida for a week-long visit with my Dad, step-mom and some old friends from the River: Tim and Doug.

Then it was back to Cali to return to work on Dianovo, but I just couldn’t get back into it or much of any other work: I was uber home-sick and caught up in the slow-pace that the East Coast so often is. So I decided to pack up my things and move back east, but first stopping back over in LA again to dump said stuff in storage and prepare my other business for my departure. But not surprisingly, I got caught back up with my friends and loved ones in LA and decided to push off my departure for a few months.

I hopped back on board hardcore with The Do LaB, for an amazing few months of work on Coachella, then Lightning In A Bottle, the Beverly Hills White Party, and then it was into summer with a 2.5 week long trip to Guatemala. My time there gave me a lot of opportunity to reflect upon what was important to me and what I wanted to pursue personally and professionally. So when I returned to LA in early June, I began in more earnest, to work on both my romantic relationship and professional path.

I continued working with The Do LaB, resumed work on Green Gurus and continued work on my relationship. Then in mid-summer I went back east again (and therein lies a constant theme for me and home) to help head up the Green Spot construction of The Do LaB’s lumi pods and towers at the Virgin Music Festival in Baltimore, followed up by another visit home.

While at home again, I heavily re-visited my passion for the outdoors as it related to my old job at Hidden River Adventures and my future plans for Rivertribe, but realized it still wasn’t time for that pursuit; I still needed something more from my investments living out West. So after some much needed time re-connecting to the river with some great kayaking trips, I headed back to LA.

One of my investments or more aptly, reasons for moving out west, was school. So the first thing I did was re-enroll in school at SMC for the fall semester. Then I headed up another gig for The Do LaB at the Future Ape festival, followed by one last get-away before the start of the school: this time back to Santa Cruz to watch my old house and base of operations for Dianovo.

Then it was a head-first dive back into school for an intense 3.5 month-long semester in computer science, design and programming; an intense and seemingly appropriate step with regards to my romantic interests; followed by a long-awaited move into the Sugar Shack, then my foray into local politics, the loss of my oldest friend Charlie, and continued work on Green Gurus.

I also worked on the last few gigs for the year with The Do LaB, at the Global Mala Project and a random job for Goldenvoice. Also during the last half of my semester, I started counseling for the first time in years, to help kind of clear some of the noise in my head from everything that year, followed by a renewed start in work on my longest running romantic relationship, through couples counseling (which has been a great decision).

Another big event of the year was my first surgery, in which I finally went in and had a lumptectomy performed to have an overly uncomfortable and ample-sized cyst removed from directly beneath my left nipple; the surgery was flawless and there was very little pain involved afterwards, thanks to the great job performed by my doctor.

While there have been countless other events and random bits of interest from this year, nothing is more noteworthy than the pending sale of my first internet venture. The sale was posted back over the summer and negotiations have been taking place on and off for the last few months with several different parties. Now it looks very close to happening, perhaps within the first month of this new year, so I have been doing a lot of work to prepare for this possibility, both for the business itself and my own well-being; it’s definitely one of the biggest, most life-changing steps I’ve had to prepare for in a long time. But I definitely believe it’s time to make this change and what better time then at the start of the new year?

So as this year starts to unfold and all the previous year’s seeds start to yield their fruits, I look forward to the work in store: for my companies, myself, my family, friends, and the world. I am going to make this my best year ever and I hope you are able to do the same!

Much love and blessings for everyone’s prosperity, health and happiness.

Yesterday marked the 5-year mark until 2012.

And now it seems, everything’s lost its meaning: school, work, relationships..everything just seems kind of blah. Or, maybe, I’m just completely fried from the last 3.5 months of one-too-many things vying for my attention and energies.

I started school full-time, while running one existing company, started up another, continued work for another that I’ve been involved with on and off over the years, ended one relationship, started another, moved into a intentional, urban community, lost my oldest and best friend to a fatal accident, started my initiation into local politics, had my first-ever surgery with one of the countries best for…a lumptectomy, started counseling, ended short-lived new relationship, resumed other on-and-off again of 5+ years, began discussions and negotiations of potential sale of first company, started couple’s counseling in attempt to sort fact from fiction, and am now entering in on full-on negotiations for potential sale of said, first company.

Whew. I need breather or, a vacation from living for awhile…yeah, that would be nice.

What’s next on the horizon? Hmm, time will certainly tell.

This old Chicken Little fable resonates ever more strongly for me as the world speeds closer and closer to…something.

I’m not going to say destruction, because I doubt we’re capable of completely destroying Her, but I do feel our own mortality draws exceedingly close and sharper. Whether it’s an end to life as we know it completely, a drastic redesign of our current system (of living), or something else entirely, I have no doubt that something is occurring and at a rate that’s growing exponentially.

With the world’s current pace of evolution out of control, I think people are too busy fighting/working to maintain status quo, to really take stock of what’s happening. Either that, or people are just plain terrified of the technological and industrial horrors we’ve unleashed on our planet; the times are uber-freaky for sure.

Oil spills, wars, human and animal abuse and destruction, rampant self-abuse and destruction, and a million other signs of life now ending/changing while nothing new for centuries now, seem to be accelerating even more rapidly to some final act. But will it be one great act of creation or one great finale?

Only time will tell.