well it's Monday and what a good fuckin start of a week... work went well, upgraded my new bike with some new tires and when i got out of a business meeting i was meet by such a wonderful thing... the sounds of thunder and lightning... so i naturally went towards it... as soon as i hit the CWU campus i was hit by rain and hail... and had the time of my fuckin life... it was so great to be able to ride around in the good weather... feeling hail pelt my bare face and arms... my entire body was soaked from head to toe in cold ass water... made me feel so damn good.. what a pick me up really.. on top of that i got a damn good exercise... it's really hard to wheel threw rain and hail when a Ellensburg breeze is backing it up... well that's all



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it has been a good week...

even thou in reality this sucked it was also very funny... on last Sunday i crashed on my bike, what made it funny is that i was going really fast and ran straight in to a fence. for four years i have been riding down Craig's hill... and every year i went on the same path... apparently about 6 months ago they put in a new fence at the high school... me not knowing that ran straight into it... it was really funny thou... thankfully the only thing hurt was my Ego

got a landscaping job... me and my brother are making a zen garden for a friend of ares... this will be a first time for me... i have done plenty of landscaping jobs but i never created a zen garden before... i have put in trees,shrubberys!!, and made multi layer brick flower beds/fountains... it's gonna be fun... on top of that i get to work out doors witch i love...

i got my GED certificate and just sent in my application too CWU... the councilor said it is a sure thing i will get in... witch means i will start school in the fall... i can't wait... a little nervous with the idea of starting school...

i mean i haven't been in a class room going on three years... fuck i am gonna be 21 this year... 21!!!! i don't care about the drinking thing.. if i wanna drink i can get alcohol, hell i can go to the bars...it's just crazy too think i am gonna be 21... i am two decades old...

i also got a summer job... doesn't pay the best... but the hours make it possible for me to keep my current job... witch rocks... two sources of income are much better then one... i will actually be working with my friend stan basset... he runs the youth services in town... basically i have to watch teenager and set up activities(hiking, camping or what ever) so basically i get to screw around and get paid for it...

also me and my brother chris and mike are gonna start hiking the ridge and sparing together... i decided a few day ago that my knuckles are a little soft so it's time to toughen them up... i am gonna start punching the bag at my brother house every day... kinda sucks when your knuckles are soft because they tend to bleed the first couple times you punch the bag... doesn't really hurt ... it is just very inconvenient...

been playing allot of Final Fantasy Tactics... god damn i love that game... i only wish it was a little harder... i love getting all the secret characters and boosting them too level 99 and going toe to toe with dragons... i want to get a PSP version(and the PSP itself) so that way i can battle other peoples groups... but that is a ways off for me...

i have been reading allot of mythology stuff lately... especially voodoo... mainly due to the voodoo man i keep drawing... and what i thought of voodoo was not far off... voodoo is some cool stuff... thou god/loa are awesome... and kooky... so far my favorite god is Baron Samedi(or baron Saturday)i won't go into detail but here is a [link] i would look into more of it too... it is just so cool.. like reading Norse mythology...

right know i am rockin out with some metallica... and reading a new book i got, "Orcs" i like it so far.. thou i am not far into it... it is different then most books i have read... it is a fantasy style book.. but it has more combat and less magic(so far)

the art videos i got are sweet... been watching those things allot... would watch them tonight but i need a break form the damn things... unfortunately i have something sad to say... i have pretty much lost all my glass art work i made... the second to last piece i had... broke the other day... witch sucks... it was a larger of a dragon slithering up a tree... it's not like a premium piece of art i did .. but i still liked it allot... the only thing i have left is a credit card sized glass work of a ghost... if that breaks i am gonna be really bummed... kinda got some attachment to that little thing

WELL sorry for the long journal and hope you are all doing well...

Sincerely Thomas I. Cox (Bokkodo the voodoo man)

P.s i could be wanted for man Slaughter...

P.S.S kidding...