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so it's the end of the year and i came close to an anniversary - it's been one year i started to write this blog. the reason to start was simple - to keep in touch with online friends (i also wanted to share some wisdom but it hasn't happened so often or even far).

so what's up? i'm just importing some movies from this year and some leftovers from 2004 (right now a theatre play Speak Truth to Power by Ariel Dorfman performed by volunteers, in between them my dear anne). if you never did it... it's time-eater and it's a tricky job in kicking myself to do it (i'm not the only one with the problem... see third and half episode of four eyed monsters, it's all great stuff). i decided to take tapes with me hoping that i find some time between holidays to go through, import, edit and export about seven hours of material. mostly shots of family, friends and travels. actually, the strongest impulse was christmas phone call with my mum, who got herself a new dvd player.



how i finally found a time? i'm sick with flu. it came so fast. i was visiting friends at christmas eve and stayed a few days at iicd in williamstown, ma. i had a great time, and the dog i am... dogsitting right now had one too, i hope. it's a place on a hill, a few miles from civilization, very peaceful. i made a bunch of nice new friends and had another deja-vu - installing tiger on an old powerbook of a man with beard in mountains (hi caliph). but just the last morning woke up with sore throat.

i managed to drive back to the work three hours on mass pike but left earlier in the afternoon to get to bed. but it was already too late. i was all ill with flu the next morning. but i had to get the next day to an apple store, about thirty miles far. of course i underestimate traffic, got there late, had to wait, and then left somewhere (that cafe i bought green tea which i all spilled when opening car doors? i called them. or was it the car's roof?) the cool neoprene pocket with repair receipt inside (which i hopefully won't need as the powerbook is already on the way back by dhl to my work place).

yeah it's best to be in bed, with tea and some great stuff to listen or watch like the channel frederator - cartoons, on my ipod, for free. the guys have great sense for humor and for background colors, too.

it's time to post this words. i had visit from the new friends. we had nice dinner together and now they took (free, today) train downtown boston. it's just fresh snow falling.

this holidays i won't send any common neither personalized letters to the whole address book as last year. on contrary, i will only reply on letters to people who send me greetings already. this end of the year i realized i should stop reminding myself to people who don't care about me, and focus on those who do. so, dear voky, verena, elisa, monika, alena, valli, shane, vanessa, kaci, meda, krvinkaxxx, ewance, maja, chlanovi, laala, michal, adelka, michaela, anne lene, and of course anne, thanks very much and same to you! kouckovi and chlanovi, thanks for lovely letters (i forgot to check mailbox so i found out later)!

while most of the people in czechia goes already sleep, in africa soon sun is going to rise. people in china are going to eat their lunch, but... their have their own year and lunchtime. and on aotearoa it's already afternoon.



it's about last 80 minutes left of this year here on east coast. i'm going to have a think about you my friends.

take care,
josef

ps: as i watch some rumors about intel apples, i came across the register quoting a guy from sony:

"Ultimately, Kutaragi suggested, we'll see 16 teraflop supercomputer 'cabinets' and one petaflop (a million billion flops, in other words) server rooms - the latter delivering enough raw power for true AI systems, he said."

wait a minute. the same company who made my car stereo, handycam and phone (well that one together with some vikings) is going to create the real terminator and agent smith?