Snowman Studios
Last weekend I went and did rallycross. It's a bit like the autocross events I've gone to, only it's done on dirt. It was a lot of fun, and I have some pictures (many of which will require some cleanup and resizing). I'll post them eventually.
The Chinese do too much to control their people. Now they are telling gamers they can't play more than 5 hours straight. What will all the script kiddies do with their free time in between learning astro-physics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183340.stm
Yet another girl has randomly shown up. That makes 4 in 2 weeks.
One of the girls I knew in high school (one grade lower) now is working at the same company I am in the marketing department (1 of ~60 people). The weird thing is that I had been thinking about her and a certain incident where I had made a very harsh statement (not sexist or profain or in any other way non-PC, just not very nice). But that is like water under a bridge (as she put it).
Ok, back to back Aikido practices are a bad thing. I can hardly move or get out of bed this morning.
Well, a couple of random things came up this week. Well, specifically random girls.
The first requires a brief explanation. My parents knew a couple when they were living in Chicago, and have kept in touch since. They have a daughter who is 2 years older, and we spent time when I was young (as in pre-kindergarten). I've seen her sporadically since. The daughter's cousin was out here for a conference (she's a senior at UCF), and the parents told her I was here and so they arranged for us to get together. Thursday, I met up with them and we went out for drinks with other people from the conference. Today, the two of us went out for dinner and walked around La Jolla. It was fun.
The second was a temp receptionist at my office. We had talked about some crazy stuff going on for her, and I gave her my number because I wanted to hear how it all turned out. It was only later that I realized what "a guy giving his number to a girl" could look like, and from there I didn't expect to hear anything. She called Friday to tell me things have gone better for her. I was a bit confused because she didn't identify herself immediately, then asked if I knew who it was (I said "no"), then continued on. Combine this with me being in a rush to go to Aikido, and my head was spinning.
As I said, random. Very random.
I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, partially because of travel.
Christmas came suddenly, and seem to go just as suddenly. Staying in town made the holiday seem shorter and took away the activities I normally associate with the holiday.
The Tuesday after, I went to Minnesota to visit John (Pat drove up). It was nice and relaxing, and it felt good. When I'm at home, I feel like I need to be doing productive things (laundry, dishes, cooking, etc). But there, I could just relax and not think of such things. It was great. On Friday, we had to shovel out the driveway and clear off Pat's car for him to drive home. The chore turned into a bit of fun, with the required snowball fight, snow-bowling, snow-pitching (a tree was the strike zone), snow-discus, snow-basketball, and snow-football throwing. I forgot to build my snowman...
