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July 31, 2006 

Hey guys, how are you doing. It's been a busy month since the last Diary posting. In the last week of June through to the first week of July I took the business trip I'd postponed. Went to Jamaica then out to Los Angeles. The people were nice, and thank God I didn't encounter any celebrities from the case, as that would have ruined my trip. For more on the trip, read the July Diary Supplement click here.

In the last month I wrote well over 2 dozen new songs and recorded the full songs and or the music (beats) for most of them. Should wrap up that to be announced endeavor shortly. Still wrapping up the album. I'm going to launch it with something else, once again, to be announced shortly.

It's been a lot of fun though. One of the times I'm happiest is when I'm working on the music and filmwork I love. Did a lot of filming recently as well. That will be announced shortly as well.

Then I moved from the house I was in after I sold my home (that stay was only intended to be temporary). A newscaster had leased that house to me. Now I've moved into another house. This one is big, a little bigger than my old house and I can fit all my furniture and equipment in here (ironically the garage is still full of boxes of new and old stuff - even though I donated some things to charity). We're about 80% unpacked. I really hate moving. It's a real pain in the butt. But logistically, this move wasn't so bad (still hated it though).

My god-brother was in Costa Rica doing a comparative study of the KFC’s of Florida (USA), Jamaica and Costa Rica. Really, I say that because we asked him how the trip was going and he brings up the differences in KFC's in the three aforementioned countries.

How insightful - yes, as Whitney said, "the children are our future" (LOL). Then he actually told us about the rainforest and other sites of interest - you know, what we were actually asking him about to begin with before he spouted off the impromptu KFC study (I'm just teasing him - but he really did do that, which had us cracking up).

His friend’s family invited him with them on their 10 day summer vacation and he had a great time. They did all sorts of outdoorsy stuff. He got two vacations this summer, as he’d already went to Jamaica with his mom. So he's basically tired, never mind he just started football practice as well. Break out the Gatorade.

Also, congrats to him on getting his license (you drive better than your mom, Maria Andretti). As per usual, his mom cried. Anything the boy does, she cries she's so proud of him. Can you imagine if he pursues a career as a professional athlete (scouts are already looking at him now in high school) - she would embarrass the boy at the games his team wins (and loses) by crying stuff like "That's my son" and "my baby." To my god-brother John - you know, you don't have to actually publicly admit she is your mom. Just kidding.   

Saw my little sister as well (my dad too). Wrote about it in the above posted link. They're doing well. My sister is all grown up now (well, just about). She's so cute. She showed me the graduation CD her school made for her class. It was entertaining (some of them are unofficial comedians). She'll be driving soon. She's in no hurry, however.  

I decided to get some pets - well, actually, two gold fish. One red (girl) and one blue (male). I got them a nice tank with plenty of room that they can swim around. I put a big decorative tank approved tree in it and blue coral chips at the bottom. The male is always chasing the female around and she's always running from him. The male appears to be giving off mating signals, well at least trying - the bubbles). So hopefully there will be more fish soon, as it will save me money in not having to buy more fish for the tank.

The red female fish is slender and the blue fish is ripped (yea, he's been working out - his scales are totally defined).

I made sure there was a male and female. I'm a Christian - there shall be no buggery in this household.

One thing though - at first when I fed them fish food, the male fish would gobble it up quickly but the female fish would chew her food for a few seconds and spit it out. I thought to myself, would you look at that, an anorexic fish.

It would be nice if they lived, as I like them already. My god-brother and his mom couldn't keep their fish alive for nothing. Their fish just kept dying. I remember when they went on vacation they asked one of our friends to go feed the fish and she called us from their place and said, "The fish are dead!" she was wondering why she would need to feed already dead fish.