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Oof. These past few weeks. A combination of health-related fun and not as much sleep as I should be getting has left me a bit out of it. The meds I had to take to deal with the health fun hasn’t been helping either. Have felt like I’ve been having a hangover for the past week. Or a concussion. Regardless, words don’t come to me to great lately. Especially when talking or e-mailing someone.

But hey, things are happening. And they’re happening soon, which is pretty amazing. I got an internship at a music publishing company and, after informing them of pre-made plans,  start next week. Will it lead to something a bit more solid than what I currently have going? I’m hoping so.

TRAVEL! In about ten days the boy and I are off to Chicago to have some C2E2 fun and explore the fine city for a few days. Ever since we first started discussing this trip I’ve been looking forward to it. Can’t wait to admire some of the nice spots, drink some amazing craft beer, try a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza (yum!) and walk around a city that I have been told is amazing.

And later on this month I’ll be off to LA for MusExpo, where I’ll be pitching some music to industry bigwigs and shmoozing in some pretty wonderful nightspots. Even teaching a round table…thing. Really looking forward to exploring the area and meeting new people.

I have kinda-sorta-maybe decided that if job prospects among other things aren’t really going the way they’d like…I’m going to look in to taking out a student loan and enroll in Niagara College’s Brewmaster & Brewery Operations Management course.  I honestly think I’ll be happy there and it can lead to a career in the brewing industry and eventually lead towards the dream of running my own brewpub. So…yeah, we’ll see there.

So yeah, that seems to be what’s going on with me in the immediate future…

So my family just got a new television. A 40″ 1080p HDTV to be exact. I’ve been excited, because I can finally play games on my Xbox (the previous TV was too dark). I celebrated by buying LA Noire and Gears of War 2. The latter is…I’ll admit, completely blowing me away.

But it’s a game that I’ve always been interested in. Primarily because of their wonderful trailers. To show you, here are the trailers to all three games in the series.

These trailers just blow me away.



As The Light Finds Its Way, originally uploaded by Robin LeBlanc.

So yesterday I turned 27 years-old.

The day itself, hell the entire WEEKEND was amazing.  Meeting up with friends new and old, drinking, laughing, talking the night away…and even getting to spend time with the New Guy, Alan, who traveled all the way from Virginia to see me on my Birthday.

The gifts were WONDERFUL.  Comics, music, a Samhain toy, Star Trek: TNG Season 4, a book on the collected works of Robert Crumb’s art on record covers, some beautiful flowers and the much-coveted Brooklyn Box Set, a set containing a signed copy of The Oxford Companion to Beer and a custom ale to go with it, only available at the Brooklyn Brewery’s shop in Williamsburg and paid for by my folks, graciously picked up by my friend Melissa and picked up by Alan who sent it to me.  Gorgeous, gorgeous gorgeous.

But, and I usually think about this at the end of the year, where things seem a little more…significant to me, I can’t help but notice the outstanding change in me within only the past two years.  I’m even thinking back to the times where I pushed people away.  And now…it really feels that in the past two years I’ve come out on to my own and at least have gotten on the path of being someone I’m comfortable with.  Add this to the selection of amazing friends I have and I really do count myself as an incredibly lucky person.

2009, as a lot of you know, was sort of a time of death and rebirth for me.  Some bad shit happened, I broke down and just didn’t know what to do.  Since then I’ve culled out the poisonous relationships, embraced the interests I was too nervous to embrace for fear of judgement while seeking out and getting in to all other new interests.  I’ve become confident to a level I didn’t even think was possible, in part with losing weight and being less afraid in expressing my opinions.

And of course I’ve learned that by being myself and not compromising who I was in order to fit in, I have gained the respect and kindness from a mindblowing amount of people.  That one shocked the HELL out of me when it started up.  Being yourself works, who knew?

So yeah…25 was a good chance to get my feet in the pool.  26 was me swimming around the pool and getting a feel for the motions.  And 27?

I get the feeling 27 will be the year to try my chances in the ocean.


Thank heavens, I’ve actually been busy with photography lately.

So I’ve been a bit busy with taking photos, getting a book together (more on that later), boxing, collaborating (DEFINITELY more on that later.  Hell, by Monday I’ll have a treat for you) and then there’s this…

My home brew Audacious Bitch, talked about on my beer blog.  With a beautiful label design by Emmanuel “Mojokingbee” Hernaez.

More stuff to come real soon, but I have actually been doing what I said I’ve been doing.  Creative stuff has practically exploded lately. !



This Isn’t Fun Anymore, originally uploaded by robinleblanc.

So after mulling it over in my mind for, hell, AGES, I’ve decided to open up an Etsy shop with selected works on sale currently at 20% off when you type the coupon code “WELCOME“.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/wornoldhat

Sometimes I have some really good days.

And it looks like the site is safe for another year.  To those that bought a print, thank you!  You made it possible for me to keep running!

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