Was my last entry really in October? I'm not usually one of those goddamn slackers that wait 4 months to let you know what kind of boring crap I've been up to.
So, currently Christmas went okay, as did New Years. My birthday featured home-made batter and deep fried corn dogs, on wooden skewers. As with all my birthday dinners, I practiced a couple times before hand, to shaky success. Upon the day, however, the dogs ended up about the diameter of a normal-sized squeeze bottle of Gatorade; they were thick, yo. Thick, corn meal batter, golden fried in peanut oil. No one, not even by buddy Brian, could eat more than one.
For dessert, we had home made cherry pie. I mean the filling, the crust, every damn thing. There was ice cream, too, but I didn't make that.
We played poker, smoked cigars, drank scotch; then a couple buddies stayed the weekend to play PC games.
The rest of the time in between then and now has been pretty sucky overall, with a generally happy ending. I volunteered to do a program for a local sci-fi convention. They are the largest one around here and the programs have always been a labor of love; meaning generally crappy from a design point of view. I thought I would give something back, since I've been going there since 1985, but it's been constantly sucking my creative evening time and going on waaaay too long. Add that with a boring job that has a shitty commute, and I haven't felt creative in a while. And that's bad.
I have been continuing to date Megadeth girl, but my ex-girlfriend current roommate super good friend... um... Nazca girl, has been having trouble dealing with this new wrinkle. On a quick aside, I haven't seriously gone out with anyone in about 3 years while I was going to school and getting my career on track.
So, it was basically like having two girlfriends, and not in whatever the good way is. They've both been nice and all, it was mostly my problem for not being firm enough about my free time. I suddenly felt like I hadn't had a moments peace in months and kinda snapped.
Luckily, Megadeth girl went to Spain and Nazca girl and I got in a huge fight that cleared everything out, then she went to her mom's for a few days (pre-planned.) I had three or four days to relax, play Rome Total War, and leave my bedroom door open for the cat.
So, for about a week now, I've been feeling pretty good (thus, here I am.) I still have the program project over my head, but it's almost done. Work is better, though still not creative, and I'm trying to relax during the shitty commute. Oh, and I had a six-course, top-notch French meal, my first, and got amazingly drunk off of fat, sauce, wine, and yummy, yummy rabbit.
Oh, and I went Caucusing. It ruled. The weirdest thing about it was I suddenly realized the 82 other people in the room (from my district) all lived within a couple blocks of me. Seems pretty obvious, but it was good once it sunk in.
Oh, and I have some movie reviews and other crap to write down soon.
Alright, back to work.
So, currently Christmas went okay, as did New Years. My birthday featured home-made batter and deep fried corn dogs, on wooden skewers. As with all my birthday dinners, I practiced a couple times before hand, to shaky success. Upon the day, however, the dogs ended up about the diameter of a normal-sized squeeze bottle of Gatorade; they were thick, yo. Thick, corn meal batter, golden fried in peanut oil. No one, not even by buddy Brian, could eat more than one.
For dessert, we had home made cherry pie. I mean the filling, the crust, every damn thing. There was ice cream, too, but I didn't make that.
We played poker, smoked cigars, drank scotch; then a couple buddies stayed the weekend to play PC games.
The rest of the time in between then and now has been pretty sucky overall, with a generally happy ending. I volunteered to do a program for a local sci-fi convention. They are the largest one around here and the programs have always been a labor of love; meaning generally crappy from a design point of view. I thought I would give something back, since I've been going there since 1985, but it's been constantly sucking my creative evening time and going on waaaay too long. Add that with a boring job that has a shitty commute, and I haven't felt creative in a while. And that's bad.
I have been continuing to date Megadeth girl, but my ex-girlfriend current roommate super good friend... um... Nazca girl, has been having trouble dealing with this new wrinkle. On a quick aside, I haven't seriously gone out with anyone in about 3 years while I was going to school and getting my career on track.
So, it was basically like having two girlfriends, and not in whatever the good way is. They've both been nice and all, it was mostly my problem for not being firm enough about my free time. I suddenly felt like I hadn't had a moments peace in months and kinda snapped.
Luckily, Megadeth girl went to Spain and Nazca girl and I got in a huge fight that cleared everything out, then she went to her mom's for a few days (pre-planned.) I had three or four days to relax, play Rome Total War, and leave my bedroom door open for the cat.
So, for about a week now, I've been feeling pretty good (thus, here I am.) I still have the program project over my head, but it's almost done. Work is better, though still not creative, and I'm trying to relax during the shitty commute. Oh, and I had a six-course, top-notch French meal, my first, and got amazingly drunk off of fat, sauce, wine, and yummy, yummy rabbit.
Oh, and I went Caucusing. It ruled. The weirdest thing about it was I suddenly realized the 82 other people in the room (from my district) all lived within a couple blocks of me. Seems pretty obvious, but it was good once it sunk in.
Oh, and I have some movie reviews and other crap to write down soon.
Alright, back to work.