Facebook forgets Leap Day

If your birthday falls once every four years (on February 29th), don’t expect many birthday wishes from your Facebook friends, unless of course this changes in the next 24 hours: 

 

Notice todays birthdays (February 28) are followed by Saturday’s birthdays (March 1). Oops.

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Tumblr

If you’re wondering where I’ve been, make sure you’re following me at jondodd.tumblr.com. I’ll still post here occasionally (perhaps) when I feel like I have a lot to say, but for now, Doddfoddr it is.

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Fort Collins

Is looming like the Rocky Mountains, even though I won’t be leaving L.A. until August (which, p.s. is shaping up to be a huge month: Beijing Olympics. Verizon contract runs out = iPhone. Birthday. Move across the country, again). Good thing this is all six months off. But really, only six months? I feel like I’m just getting settled in Southern California as far as church, friends, place, work, routine. It’s really taken me this long to feel comfortable (October to February = 4 months?) so the idea of doing this all over again doesn’t sound like too much fun. The other thing I’ve been asking myself lately is, what does Fort Collins really accomplish? If my heart is truly split between Pittsburgh and Asia, then why Colorado? Is it my dream job? Nope. Is it a good job? Yeah, it is. It’s a good fit for me for now, and I just have to trust that staying with ELIC will be the right thing for me for another year, at least. So what makes it hard? Well, I’m starting to really love my church here in California. Will I most likely find a new church in Fort Collins? Most likely. Will I dis-like leaving a church two times in a year’s time to follow a job? Absolutely. Will I find new people to connect with and invest in and build friendships with? I’m sure I will. But there are friends from high school, college, China, Providence, and now California, that I will miss when I move on (most that I already do). I’ll find new coffee shops and brewpubs (serving  Fat Tire, I’m sure) to frequent and if there’s a good Thai restaurant anywhere in Colorado, I’ll know about it. I’ll figure out the cool thing to do on a Friday night (but it won’t be Pinkberry), plus I’ll be within an hour of awesome dudes like Matt Stewart, Adam Wing and Tim Wilsey, and about 1500 miles closer to home, but I’m feeling a strange mix of a desire to stay and a desire to leave, just not really to leave for Fort Collins. I’m sure it’s a great town, but my heart is so many other places, and I’m not sure if I’m ready to invest in somewhere new again. Neither am I sure if I’ll feel ready to leave L.A. when it’s time. Six months from now, just 26, with the Olympics fresh over and iPhone in hand, I’ll be packing up my life once again (with no real thought this will be the last time) for Colorado. Six months. Maybe I should say half a year instead–sounds longer. [NOTE: I apologize; WordPress isn't letting me add paragraph breaks to my text. It's a little bulky anyway, so thanks for reading, and sorry for the lack of white space.]

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