ill explain what this means later, but i wanted to have it here so that i could have it for later :)

today is a great day... today is the 35 anniversary of the birth of one of the world's souls that never made it far enough in his human form...

martin was an amazing fella, he was witty and intelligent beyond his years... he had an amazing way about him that was purely magnetic... his penchant for making people smile was uncanny... and most of all he was a good human... a truly good person... he loved the hoyas, baseball and what we all did most of the time... SKATEBOARDING :) dude never got to see the 1990's, never got to see so much, but in his short life, he saw a lot and touched a LOT of us... miss ya man.

so i take off on my scooter this morning, and i decide to take a new route, one that would take me through the side streets of salisbury and with that, it took me by the graveyard that saw my first friend... this graveyard is very near another good friends old house, the old graveyard that backed up to our first LUON halfpipe way back in the day, and home to the rope swing that swung over johnsons lake... well anyway, i stopped in to see Martin and about halfway up the lane i realized that it was in fact his birthday... kinda odd how i ended up there on that route, and then finally deciding to go up to his grave... all on his bday... anyway, i wanted martin to be googled and this is the first time ive had the chance to make that happen... so here you go marty!

so with this post, i wanted to attach a passage from a book that i am reading right now, "No Death, No Fear" by Thich Nhat Hanh and it goes like this:

"Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. We do not have to go anywhere in order to touch our true nature. The wave does not have to look for water because she is water. We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God"

Well, as I look back on the past year I can only say, where in the HELL did it go?

· Navtrak breaking 15,000 vehicles online to

· Revolution Web Design having a banner year to

· 3rd place at the Green Hill Yacht and Country Club club championship (in my flight) to

· 3rd place in the 1st Annual Pohanka/Green Hill Amatuer Invitational (in my flight) to

· 2nd place in the Intermediate ColdFusion coding contest to

· 1st place in our flight, and 2nd place overall at the 2005 Green Hill Member Guest (my father-in-law was my partner again, we have now won our flight 2 out of 3 years!!! and my 5th out 6 years!!!) to

· all of the natural disasters, wars, social uprisings, voting in previous dictatorial countries to

· the Carolina Weekend tour!!! (our 2nd one) to

· the Burr Open!!! (my 2nd one, the ninth annual) to

· setting up my own, flickr, myspace, delicio.us profiles to have me on the web, the things i like, the pictures i take, and the links i want to share

its been a crazy year, one that i will never forget. i look forward to 2006, i really do. i cannot say that i looked forward to 2005, but i think 2006 will have a lot of new an incredible things in store.

i am hoping to
1. become fitness and fiscally fit (more so than 2005)
2. i want to ride in the seagull century
3. i want to as well :)
4. i want to become a single digit handicap golfer (im a 12 right now, and want to be an 8 or 9. but i will not set any limit as i'd prefer to be a 5 or 6!!!)
5. i want to win my flight in the club championship
6. i want to make it to the 4th or 5th round of the presidents cup match play championship at green hill.
7. i want to do more yoga
8. i want to become a better buddhist

there is a lot i want to do, a lot of time will be taken to do it, but i think i can handle it.