a couple of new pictures have made their way to the pictures page..view them at your leisure by clicking the camera icon at the top of this page...

23:39

i forgot two other song books i'd like to read: rivers cuomo and fran healy

22:19

have you ever refused a piece of gum because you felt the person offering it to you might need the entire pack?

10:01

a couple of quick things...songwriting journals i'd pay big money to see on a regular basis: ben folds, ryan adams, mike garrigan, and stephen jenkins... now, here's somethin i found mildly hilarious...a termite walks into a bar and says, "hey, is the bar tender here?"...say it out loud..it makes it exponentially funnier (keeping in mind that any exponential factor of zero is still zero)

23:04

how about those seminoles, knockin off the top ranked dookies...so a pretty good sports weekend..wins by the redskins, the wolfpack, and the sems...gotta love it man...in an unrelated story, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life, so i think i'll try to get well rested for it...have a good one, mahalo/aloha

20:56

school starts again in about 36 hours and i'm so excited...i didn't sleep as much as i would have liked during the break, though i'm aware (and grateful) that i got more sleep than some other people i know...so i guess i'm kinda lookin forward to this semester...i mean i guess it just gets me one step closer to graduation and that's always a plus (though graduate school looms in my future) ...alright, enough of that, it's depressing me..that's all i've got for now, i hope you're all enjoying your days and nights...have a great rest of the weekend

01:32

two new features of dustinriego.com are now available. i have a few pictures on the picture page, and the slightly innovative [daily interactive] is now available by clicking the link under the header pictures...i hope you enjoy, let me know what you think...

23:48

when stuck inside your home during the blizzard of 2002, one thing remains certain about toilet paper...2 rolls are better than 1...it appears as though i may be having a little bit of shoe with my foot later on as the snow has not yet relented, and the sustainability of my food supplies now comes into question (not really but i like being dramatic)... is the snow ever gonna stop falling down? everytime i come back to my computer a new 'winter weather alert' pops up, with the latest extending snowfall warnings until midnight tonight...well, the more the merrier, i always say...enjoy

17:21

::[song of the day]:: let it snow (the boyz ii men version) by boyz ii men

and once again, as is customary every couple of years, the city of raleigh and it's associate cities/townships are crippled by a monster downfall of 2-3 inches of snow...can you feel the sarcasm...ok, the actual accumulation might end up being more than 2-3 inches since it's at about that right now, and still coming, but is this really a big deal? my grandparents lived in maryland where a foot of snow still wasn't enough to keep kids out of school...i mean do we really have to go to the grocery store and buy out the entire store because we won't be able to get there for...12 hours??...ok, so it might be longer than that, but has anyone seen the forecast for saturday? 40 degrees...so people went to the grocery store, bought 3 gallons of milk that they will be force feeding their kids by next monday so it won't go bad before it's used...ok...now i'm really mad, because the drive home from the mall has gotten me in such a bad mood that i can't enjoy the snow...breathe dustin breathe...ok...i love the snow...i wish peeps were around right now to enjoy it with me, but i know better than to ever let a good thing go to waste, so i'm gonna go play in the snow all by my lonesome... peeps, i'll be thinkin about you...have a glorious evening...

22:26

snow happens...

19:12

due to cold weather xmas bowl v was cancelled, however, if it snows, i'm definitely going back out there...

12:36

let it be noted that the m-w.com word of the day is 'penchant' which just happens to be one of my favorite words... in other news, my new years celebration was pretty good...i'll leave my activities to your imagination, but don't let it run wild on that one, the evening was fun, but nothing to go nuts over...alright, well that's it for now, i hope you all have a wonderful second day of the year...remember, make each day better than the last..or not..either way it's just life...

00:16

::[song of the day]:: think it over by wave

::[quote of the day]:: plenty of other fishees in the sea by t-racy sming 'da bomb' chao

happy new year!!! welcome to the new design for dustinriego.com. i know it's not much, but it's exactly what i wanted. simplifying the design makes it much easier for me to add things when my time is at a premium. basically what i'm saying is that i'm trying to shift the focus towards offering more content rather than a "flashier" look. unfortunately i haven't quite finished my work with that extra content yet, but it should pop up soon so keep checking back here for more. i hope you have a wonderful and safe new years...later

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