Mark and I are taking a much needed vacation… and after considering getaways ranging from Florida to Sydney, we’ve landed on a week in Paris.  We’re renting a trendy little apartment for a week, and plan on seeing the city, relaxing, and raising a roof or two.

Mark’s been to Paris a handful of times, but this will be my first trip there.  I’ve only been to Europe once before, when we went to London and Dublin with some buddies.

Thanks to Rosetta Stone, I can say “the girl jumps” in French.  Not exactly useful - but I look forward to actually finding a jumping girl, so I can proudly point it out to others.  Good thing Mark is fully bilingual, so I’ve got a more useful French language resource at my hip. 

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Just a quick video to show my buddies back West what they’re missing.

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Every time I see this guy at my gym, I can’t help but smile and think of this song :)

You know the type.

Katy Perry is a fun new pop singer - she has one track I love so much, I’d be shocked if I don’t work a version into the next mix.  Which I should be starting soon.

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Reunited and it feels so good! 

After a long break from WoW - and never really getting to the end-game content I’ve heard is where the game *begins*… I’m back at it.  That’s Bravehound (geez, what a surprise) above… my blood elf warlock on the Proudmoore server.  And of course, I’ve hooked up with the big gay guild on there… at my level (26 at the time of this post), that’s the Tainted Love guild.

So what happened to Tabula Rasa?  Well… I stopped playing once work got so demanding that I swore off all "fun" on a computer for a good while.  My elbows were aching and I needed as much time away as possible.  But now that things have normalized - as much as they ever will, anyway - I’m back, and ready to play WoW.  TR was fun, but WoW just has a heart that makes the time spent in the game, so damn fun.

Maybe it’s the community, the art in the game, and the fact that it’s *still* growing like crazy.Or maybe it’s the fun music videos (like the ones below) that people make using World of Warcraft.  :) There’s too much fun to be had in and around this game still!

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I rarely posts singles songs that I wanna share with others - maybe I’ll do it more often - but here’s one worth mentioning.

Yes, I like the pop music acts like Britney Spears for the same reasons I like diet coke.  But I’m certainly up for more substantial tunes on the radio - Robyn is a perfect example of a creative talent that deserves every ounce of recognition she gets.

I stumbled across Santogold a couple weeks ago on Arjan’s blog (a required read for music fans).  She’s great.  She sounds a bit like Tegan and Sarah - a duo worth knowing if you don’t already… their album So Jealous is awesome.

If you dig her, you find this track and other on iTunes.

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After some late night Friday night (aren’t I cool?) CSS editing to get things looking right, the new template is live. 

In some ways, I miss the old one… after all, I’d been using that shade of blue on my blog since 2004.  But just like when I felt a little sad inside when I got rid of my first car (an International Scout), even desired upgrades take a little getting used to.

So this sucker should load much faster.  And it’s a bit more flexible - it was designed with this layout in mind… whereas my old site was another template that I had heavily mutilated to look the way it did.  It was a mess under the hood.

It’s all converted, pretty much… save a few sidebar bits-and-pieces that I’ll get back up soon.  I don’t want anyone to cry over my missing tip jar! ;)

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