March 14, 2002So half a month has elapsed since I flew the coop. What's new? Nothing. Going to work, setting up the apartment (which is looking fab, if I do say so myself) and trying to save up my pennies for a rainy day. Well, perhaps that is a lousy adage to bust out at this particular juncture, as we've experienced nothing but rainy days for the whole week. I reckon y'all catch my drift, though.
Oh, and apologies for the massive picture - as cool as it might be. The computers at work won't let me load JPEGs for editing purposes for some obscure reason. "What the hell," says I. This slight hiccough should be rectified as soon as I get myself back home for a visit. Or not, I don't know. Oh, yeah; I'm still looking for a quote as well. I'm sitting here wondering why I'm updating this thing in the first place - I'm so not prepared. I guess it's mostly just to let folks know I'm still alive and kicking more than anything else. And with that, I'm goin' home to eat chili and watch cowboy flicks. It's good to be a bachelor.
March 31, 2002 Hmm. This isn't going as smoothly as I would have hoped. Guess my brilliant scheme to work on this after work wasn't so brilliant after all - seems the students at the school have a prelidiction for checking their email after class. How inconsiderate! Ergo, I am currently processing data and compiling information for a secondary home-page construction algorithm - one that includes the potential use of an Internet Cafe's online services. Otherwise, all is relatively well. I am feeling hale & healthy, quite poor (as in 'no dough') and rather addicted to my free cable package. TV - it's even more demanding and time-consuming than I remembered; either that or my ability to resist/distract myself has waned considerably. Granted, these days it is fairly easy to blame the addiction on hockey: the playoff race is in full swing and I'm all over it. I even skip opportunites to go out on the town just to catch a game. I suck, but the up side of the situation is I do manage to save on entertainment costs.
Another cause for the cathode-ray addiction might be the simple fact that I still don't really know anybody in town. I've bumped into a few old friends (some best left unmentioned) and met a couple of people at ultimate, but nothing has coalesced into any sort of realtionship yet. It would appear that although most folks in the city are friendly, very few of them actually want to be friends. It's all very odd. I'm sure that coming back from Japan and readjusting to life in North America is playing some role in this, but I can't shake the feeling of loathsomeness that afflicts me these days.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that everyone I meet should immediately want to become my best friend (and yes, I'm also aware that these things take time, thank you), but there is a sense of aloofness and disinterest mixed with some severe clique action in this city that is likely going to drive me nuts. I don't know - could be I got a little too used to being special in Japan and haven't grown accustomed to my return to 'just-a-guy' status. Could be I'm a freak. Could be the weather. Could be an opportunity to get something accomplished, I guess.In other news, the top keywords used to find my site on search engines have changed again. Thank goodness. No more "inhaling gas fumes" freaks for me. As it stands:- MOPERY BLIND: 80.78%
- PETTY MCDONALDS LAWSUIT: 18.65%
- MOPERY: 0.56%
At least two of these make definite sense, anyway. The third, well, it is entirely possible that I've ranted about the McDonalds lawsuit in the past, so I suppose I can let it slide. Perhaps I should contact some of the search engine webmasters out there and see if I can't find out just what is going on. Then again, if I do that, the fun might just stop altogether - and then where would I be?
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