oh boy is it good to be home. don’t doubt that miami wasn’t great — after all, a convening of many great minds such as the conference i attended is sure to have some high points, and a few nights in a place like that is sure to send a bunch of advertising people into a frenzy. gin and tonics were rapidly consumed in hotel bars in the evening, ‘dead or alive’ was heartily sang in a karaoke bar after midnight, hotel pools were perhaps inadvisably crowded into after the bars all closed at 4am. overall both highly stimulating and fairly draining both mentally and socially. glad to have had the experience.

then there was the weekend! i’m pretty sure jessica and i have figured out our vacation pattern after this one. that being step 1: go somewhere we’ve never been. step 2: eat and drink ourselves silly. step 3: come home fat and happy. now we just have to figure out step 4: come back afterwards and exercise like crazy to burn off all those calories. however, the delicious desserts, wines, cheeses, breakfasts, were all heavenly and so was having a great girl to share them with. so i’m a happy guy.

especially now that i’m back and i can get back to living my normal life, which is strange when you wake up monday morning thinking, ‘oh boy, i get to actually go to the office and sit at my desk today!’ without a hint of sarcasm. it really is good to be back to a steady schedule for this week; i can catch back up on the world outside of myself, get back to finding some of that inspiration we spent those days in miami discussing how to seek out and use for the bettering of what we do, and perhaps most notably, put my couch to some good use while i sit home and NOT drink alcohol for a change.

so i think what i’m gonna do tonight is swing by the record store, buy some hopefully great new music, and throw it on while i do domestic things over the next few nights such as clean my neglected bathroom. do my abundant laundry. hopefully squeeze in some netflix and backlogged daily show episodes. and overall be very excited to have a week lacking in excitement.

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and oh yes, i will spare you yet another gushing mountain goats-based post (for now), but i just happened to notice while cruising around elbo.ws today that several tracks from the new album are popping up on their charts. i’m trying hard not to play all of them to death and just be excited the new album is weeks away, when i can properly digest it as a whole, which i always find does more justice to the songs. but, you know, if you’re inclined to sneak a little peek, there’s some beautiful piano work and soft sad songcraft you might want to indulge in just to whet your appetite… and i swear i’ll put a non-goats pay day song up tomorrow after my amoeba run.