Don't know if I've posted this before, but I'm really feelin this tune out here in AZ:

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Can't find a youtube video that just has the song I wanted to post. A spotify link will have to do.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2vg1UxcczdQScP010LlHa4


....but I really wanted to post a video of some good music on this one....

Here's an old favorite:

That brings back memories. I've been listening to my old "dump" playlist, where I put cool songs that didn't fit nicely in my other playlists. Both of the above songs were in there, but the Song of Four Seasons has been taken off of Spotify, so it stood out to me as I was skimming the list.

Speaking of memories... these days I sometimes catch myself thinking about what life would have been like if I wasn't such an idiot when I was younger. What a beautiful alternate present and future I can paint in my mind, and what a futile exercise.

There is a chance that I'll be relocated to Tennessee within the next year. I like the idea, but I feel like I am just starting to become attached to people here.

A friend of mine asked me to be his best man recently. It's an honor I didn't expect at all. He's definitely one of the people I respect most in AZ, but I didn't think he regarded me as a close friend. When he asked, I realized that me and him are more similar than I previously thought -- in that we don't have many friends. That said, he is certainly my closest friend in AZ (wife excluded), and I'm blessed every time I'm around him. Chowon's and my work schedule have me with almost no free time lately, though, which is really bumming me out, because I want to be a more active and involved best man.

"Then it was said to men, 'if you sin, you will die.' Now it is said to the martyr, 'die so that you will sin not.' Then it was said, 'if you transgress the commandment, you will die.' Now it is said, 'if you decline death, you transgress the commandment.'"