Greetings and salutations ponies, and welcome to the 5th episode of Random Ramblings of a Ponified Wing. My last week was filled with quite a bit of stress -- minus of course one phenomenal event, which I will get to later. The gist of it is that I will be moving back to Chicagoland to start a new post at a national lab. This, obviously, requires moving, logistics, lots of driving... essentially all the shit that ponies bucking hate. In four days, I will leave a life behind, most of my friends, a great home, and the way things have been for the last 5 years.

The time has come. I drove down from Minneapolis, putting up with shitty, cell-phone babbling drivers for over 400 miles, and stalked out places to live for a few days. After a struggle, I signed the lease on a place yesterday morning and drove back up (once again BUCKING drivers) to a home in dire need of some moving assistance. It's stressful, emotional, and quite honestly downright annoying.

Last Saturday, however, was a lot of fun. I attended the Feld0 fundraiser and met my new favorite artist - Dawn Rider. Man, can his mad Australian vocals really come through on love ballads. You are an inspiration, my friend. Hehehehe... X3 worth every Celestia-damned penny. Props to Marco as well. At some points, I thought he was going to have an aneurysm, but he really pulled through to help out a friend. That shit is a class act.

I was going to rant more, but meh, it's such a nice day that I stopped giving a damn.

You know what's coming. Digging down deep...

Get the hell off my text file, you Celestia-blessed hippies!