july is finally over.  i’m ready, and have been ready for weeks, months, to move into my apartment.  15 more days.

i had a grand total of 3801 hits on my site this month.  when the site first started, i got so few hits that i’d know who visited my site from their ip address, and it was usually my friends.  a happy day it was when i tracked down an ip from colorado.  i don’t know anyone in colorado.

i’m going to odessa for three days.  it’s a town in west texas where most of laura’s family lives.  i’ve never been there, but i have driven through west texas.  it seems that all of west texas, over 100 miles of it, smells of oil dereks or animal feces. i can only hope that odessa is different.

i looked up record stores that are in odessa.  there are two, 45s Forever and Endless Horizons Discount Records and Tapes.  the first one sounds interesting, though it will probably be stacked wall to wall with unwanted country singles, achey breaky heart happily mashed up against the streak.  but maybe not.  i don’t know what to think of “Endless Horizons” though.  sounds like they might carry some good old self reassuring records to elevate your soul to a higher dimension.  i once got a cd by Mythos.  it was in a used bin and it looked interesting, i had never heard of them.  the label was “Higher Octave Music” and said “take a journey on sound to an alternate state of reality.”  i was too stupid, or too young, or both, to realize that this was the mantra for new age music, and that no new age music can be good music.  after listening to it and going through an hourof uncontrolled vomiting, i gave it to my mom.  she agreed that it was rubbish.