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Except for the entries that aren't.

Yes, there probably are some there.
Good god, Mesa.

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One thing that birthdays teach us is that tomorrow is not a given. The only real time that you actually have at your disposal, to use, to plan, to act with...is NOW.
Roger Waters tells us that, "We spend 18 years preparing for a life that has already begun" and that you "spend your whole life preparing for the future like it's timeless, then you will find out that you're living your life right now".

I turn 27 today.

And I am cool with it.
25 and most of 26 are what I now like to refer to as my "crisis years" and now that they are behind me, it's high time to march forward and be proud. I don't feel old, I feel awesome.
Bring it on, new year!


Although, every birthday, without fail reminds me of this song, because you can't just live your life waiting for shit to happen:

Ticking away
the moments
that make up a dull day

Fritter and waste the hours
in an offhand way
Kicking around
on a piece of ground
in your home town

Waiting for someone
or something
to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
staying home to watch the rain

And you are young
and life is long
and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find
ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run
to catch up with the sun
but it's sinking

Racing around
to come up behind you again

The sun is the same
in a relative way
but you're older
Shorter of breath
and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on
in quiet desperation
is the English way

The time is gone
the song is over
thought I'd something more to say

Doing another "cut".
If you haven't updated your journal in forever, you're out.
No lurking allowed.

Our old website is gone (if you haven't noticed).
So, I've archived all the old comics and there's a nice note about our untimely death also:

http://jinniferb.com/twomonocles/

I can't believe this thing that's not much bigger than a penny and mostly made of plastic is going to cost $556 ($628 w/tax and shit).
I understand that the insurance and healthcare companies want you to pop out as many babies as possible because you're just making more customers for them to rape on your own dime (and especially the sick ones! you pay more money that way!), but jesus christ. I don't understand why it's SO expensive. And it's especially prohibitive for those of us who aren't freaking employed. Yeah, that's logical. You'd think the smart thing to do would be to make it as cheap and as accessible as possible so that poor/unemployed people like me aren't pumping out children that will end up leeching off the system because we can't afford to have them. Squeezing a a baby out of your vagina is free (it'll come out of you no matter what/where/how) but putting a tiny plastic doodad in you to prevent such a thing is half a grand? How does that make any sense?

I get that, in the long run, it's relatively the cheapest method (assuming I use it for all of the 10 years it's 'good' for, that comes out to be about $55/year for hassle free birth control) but...I dunno. I'm pretty sure I've never spent that much money on any single object in my life, at least not all at once. Not saying it's not worth it, I guess I just have a problem with how expensive birth control is and always has been in general. Even when I briefly had health insurance, they still didn't cover any of it.

Why is it so pricey?
It's not made of anything special and it doesn't really do anything besides sit there.

I hate you baby-centric American healthcare system. I hate you.

The last and possibly the funnest entry of them all. Just bizarre, random, candid, goofy, shit that we took pictures of that make no sense or we just thought were hilarious/pointless in some way.
Enjoy!


A billboard at the bus depot.

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Ok, this is the second to the last post I'll be making about Prague. This one is primarily of random statues, parks, gardens, buildings, fountains and other things I thought were interesting/beautiful but not necessarily specific enough to explain anything about the pictures after I took them. Cool stuff in passing.
But wait! The next post is what's golden. Haha. Still worth a look.



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Our hostel, which I believe was called "Crib 15" but didn't have any outdoor signage to indicate anything about the establishment whatsoever. We were supposed to say in the "Chili Hostel" but when we got there they had lost our reservations and were completely booked. So we got sent to their sister property which was still kind of under initial construction, aside from the creepy toilet, the place was pretty nice. $127USD for 2 people for 5 days.





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Strangely owned by The Knights of the Maltese Cross, the "John Lennon wall" is a living, breathing, continuously evolving work of free, public art in the name of peace and political prosperity.



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Built in 1357, the now pedestrian-only Charles Bridge is decorated with over 30 Baroque statues of saints, patron saints and other martyred types and connects the East and West banks of Prague.



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