May 2006 Archives
Saturday Nite, 5/27/06, 20h33m. I'm making burritos. Watching bad Sci-Fi channel movie with Dean Cain, about a post-comet-strikes-earth-and-nearly-destroys-civilization timeframe. Eh, it's good mindless stuff for background noise.
Jason's off with his friends tonight, so I have the place to myself. Gives me time to plan dinners, look at recipes, and just reflect on life & such. The apt is so different when it's just me here.
I consider "why don't I go out with friends tonight?" Well, hmm, truth be told, I don't really have anyone to go out with. I know thru his LJ that Jesse's off at some party for the weekend. The only other person I really know well enough for doing anything socially would be Paul, but I have no doubt he's got lots going on (yeah, I did try to reach him, he hasn't responded to my SMS from hours ago).
It's really just so much different from life back in Austin - and it's not an Austin-thing, really, just the fact that I had such a wide social circle there. I know I could have headed down to 1920's, down to Spider House or the coffee-shop on Congress (gosh I forget the name! How dare I!) and run into any number of folks. Tho I know today it would not be the same, as a good number of folks I did know back in those days have since left - Ryan, Rux, Scott, Matt, Steve, Justin... many still around, tho, too (Gary, Justin & Scott, Vernon/Richard, and of course folks from Dell like JV, or even Denise).
It's also curious to see how many people are getting married, seriously entangled in relationships, having babies, etc. It really does give that sense of "growing up" to life around you. Life grows up, same as you do - tho sometimes at different paces.
It's nearly 9pm - I wonder if I stay up & watch TV all night, or goto bed (and hope those blasted neighbours don't start playing Erasure at 7am again like they did this morning) (I was pissed! I tossed on sweats, marched over - music blaring from their front door, even tho it's a 2nd/3rd story apt just like mine - rang the doorbell. Dogs barked, music lowered, someone stomped downstairs, peered thru the peephole, then snuck back upstairs without answering the door. I was again pissed that they wouldn't even answer the door - but at least the music was down/off).
Jason always invites me out with his friends - I argue that it's hard to really fit in with them since THEY have so much history, and tend to go off in conversations where I can't really participate - football/sports, common history/friends, etc. He says they like me and enjoy having me around - I don't doubt it. Tho I am already getting the "computer guy" rep, and that's put me off just a hair at times. But I think it's not that I mind sharing his friends - that's wonderful and they're good folk - it's more that I still have issues that I haven't really made any significant friends here of my own. Speaking of which, I really should call up Jerry & get together with him & meet his g/f. So I really am starting from scratch here. Even in Austin I had John to intro me to people and it spread from there. Here, not so much. Tho LA people are odd, and not nearly as friendly as folks in Texas (duh!).
Eh, all in time, I suppose. I also figure I won't be here forever, in SoCal. I do keep my eye on the future, on where I'd like to move to, live, build a house, settle down. Could I even setup some place off the grid, so I'm fairly self-sustaining?? That idea has an appeal from certain perspectives.
Well, I back to the burritos!
So everyone at the office yesterday, today, and tomorrow, are downtown at E3. The Office, she is MINE! It's a great chance to catch up, not be stressed, and possibly get ahead of a couple things. Kinda nice!
In other news, "June Gloom" has set in early this year. The last few days, early morning fog (which is nice), which then lends itself to sticking to the smog, and you end up with grey/brown thick haze all day long. As I described to one of the few people in the office yesterday, it sucks having like 1 mile visibility like this.
I just have to work my way throught these long days - and enjoy them while I can!
Busy week what with E3 in town, and the company both showing and attending. Look for great things from the PS3 and from our game :)
I gotta go staff the Sony press conference tomorrow afternoon. After that, a couple of meetings and that's my E3. I'll be doing good if I can completely avoid the show! Reminds me of Comdex, but in a smaller space.
I'm growing old, and less tolerante of huge crowds as that trend continues.
Driving into work is nice - it's a good 20-25 mins where I get to ponder the day, the world, etc.
So I got thinking - why the heck are people so upset over the proposed immigration legislation (eg. forcing people to obey the immigration rules which already exist) and decide it's enough to have a MAJOR demonstration in downtown LA...
...YET... no one's demonstration about gas prices (which are starting to climb towards $4/gal), which effects every single person, legal or illegal, in this country.
Is the America culture so out of touch, so out of balance, that this is our future? It makes me sad.
