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Saturday, June 22, 2002

Longest Day Of the Year

Yesterday was the first day of summer, the longest day of the year. More sunlight then any other day we will see for a long time. A few years ago I started the practice of finding someplace to sit outdoors and drink everyday on the first day of summer. My goal is to sit down with a cold beer and watch the world go by.

For the second year in a row I did this all by myself. I tried to get one of my friends with a house to host me, but they all had plans. I could not get anyone to even came out with me. I feel bad that I had to do this by myself again. I have been developing friends in San Jose. I have been working hard to develop a life for myself here. I still had to go out by myself. This makes me a little sad.

Beer

So I went out and had a beer today. There is something about moments like this that almost all for beer. Sitting outside and drinking a soda is not the same thing. It sets the tone when I am sitting there. It is like I do not need any other reason then I am just drinking a beer.

I think about this because if I was Muslim, I would be forbidden from drinking. I do not know what is the right side of this idea. Is it better to have a beer or to not have it? Could I be happy for the rest of my life and not drink? How would moments like this change for me? These are all things I should think about.

Labels: beer, longest day of the year, self, summer

- Rich, 11:11 AM |

Friday, June 21, 2002

Friday Five

Friday Five

1. Do you live in a house, an apartment or a condo?
Studio Apartment

2. Do you rent or own?
Rent.

3. Does anyone else live with you?
No. I live all by myself. I wonder if I could go back to having a roommate.

4. How many times have you moved in your life?
Four time not including college. Four more times with College

5. What are your plans for this weekend?
Friday, Drink some beer outside on the longest day of the year. Saturday, first birthday party for a friend's son. Sunday, Maybe see a movie.

Labels: answer, Friday Five, housing, question, self

- Rich, 10:16 PM |

Wednesday, June 19, 2002

translations

An e-mail message received from Miss Angela-la-la. I laughed so hard at this I thought I was going to bust a gut.

I randomly clicked on one of the links in Sad Salvation this morning to translate it.. i translated it into Portugese, then German, then back to English. It's beautiful ;).

"Purchase of the RECORD of DIGITAL
I that bitching always on, as is not no good memory of the writing in San Jose there....
Bark and Sebastian - it folds its hands child, you go as a agricultural worker
Crows that children in the flower count - (boat-put)"

"I think of that the maize in the column is my food of the favorite person or thing."

"I explained my to nut/mother, that I came to house, because nobody me cozeu a cake, since that I I moved myself of the west. He said that she was fortunate to cook a cake for me."

"Visited Jeremy, average friend Jeff of the mountain range marries it. It is resembled Mrs. Carro To say had I deep feeling for it and rebuffed."

"In the past I would die with a woman and I never had a probability with the woman of outset."

"Today I ate Kathy with my sister today to the noon. I taste of the proximity, that I have with Kathy."

It's beautiful poetry, really.

angela:::

Labels: Angela-la-la, translation

- Rich, 11:20 AM |

Tuesday, June 18, 2002

What would Joey Ramone Do?

It had to happen someday, but did it have to happen in New York? Isn't there a joke in UHF having to do with this?

Labels: broken link, IMDB, Joey Ramone, New York City, UHF

- Rich, 9:55 PM |

Monday, June 17, 2002

Meaningful Dates

I told a friend about my goal of three meaningful dates in the next year. I told her because I know she is the type of person who likes to connect her friend together. I could see her light up as I started to tell her that. I wonder if it is going to work or not. I know that I have to try tapping my friends. I think that will be my plan until the end of July. After that I will have to try something else.

Labels: dating, goal, self

- Rich, 3:56 PM |

Sunday, June 16, 2002

Working on Sunday

I am actually at TiVo working right now. I am not the type of person who likes to work weekends. I think that it is important to take time away from work. If you are working all the time, your productivity will suffer. I do not even feel fully productive when I work a normal eight hour day.

Yesterday the AVS Fourm had a TiVo Picnic. They asked that some of the employees show up. I decided it was the right thing for me to do. It is always good to fly the flag as my father would say. I had an okay time. I had some cool geek conversations about HDTV and nano-computing. I did not stay too long. It was really hot yesterday. I was starting to feel a little dehydrated. That is always a good sign of when to leave.

Today I am in the office looking at issues. There is a deadline that I need to meet on Wednesday. I need to plan out how my team is going to attack these issues. If I did not have to worry about the rest of my team, I would not be in here right now. I have to have a plan by tomorrow morning. If I do not have a plan by then, a lot of time will be wasted. I cannot have that.

With all that said, I am in the office right now. I still take a second or two for a diversion. It is not as often at the regular work day, but I still have to refresh my mind from time to time. I have to get out of here before too long. I will not have anything left for tomorrow if I do not.

Labels: self, work

- Rich, 1:24 PM |

Feeling like and Adult

This is an answer to Angela's Question

I know this is not what I thought 30 would look like. Then again, when I was 25 I used to say that all my friends and I had the same flaw, we could not see ourselves five years in the future.

Things that make me feel like an adult:

-Writing checks for my bills every week
-Living on the other side of the country of my family
-Grocery shopping

Thinks that make me feel that I am not being adult enough

-My eatting habits
-The state of my apartment
-living in a studio apartment

As for Jeremy's questions,

What are the new difficulties that one faces in adulthood, and are there (ethical, sustainable) means of surmounting those difficulties?

I am not sure what the new difficulties are. My biggest is problem is getting involved with communites. The exisiting groups I run into do not seem to meet my needs or interests.

Are "alternative lifetyles" more likely to yield happiness than "traditional" lifestyles? If so, what are the difficulties involved with pursuing an alternative lifestyle, and what activities could counteract those difficulties?

I am not sure. Most "alternative lifestyles" work hard to build a self-selecting community within that lifestyle. I am not sure you could classify my life as eithe traditional or alternative right now.

Do adults need play, and does play provide more for an adult than simple regression?

I think that adults need to play more then we admit to. I think there are social aspect to play that we get few other places. I have to admit that sometimes playing leaves me empty and I want something more substaintinal. I guess I should look at the games I am playing.

What is the role of ritual in an adult life? Of learning?

I do not know the answers to either of these. But they are questions I ask myself all the time.

Who are the people who are thinking about these ideas? What are the helpful texts?

The only people I know thinking about this are my friends.

Labels: adult, Angela-la-la, Jerery P Bushnell, QA, Questions

- Rich, 1:00 AM |

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