Saturday, March 22, 2008

30 to 12 in 6 darts flat.

Life can suck sometimes. Actually, pretty often. Speaking of which, a good friend of mine got some not so great news last week. It also right before his birthday, too. I finally coerced him into coming over for a birthday dinner, and some cake. We even got him a little gift. I searched high and low for something that would peak his interest.

Nuthin', I couldn't find anything. Finally, after shopping for groceries at Wal Mart one night, I happened upon a wall of Nerf guns. Although a bit young for our tastes, I thought "What the heck..." So I bought him two. After dinner we cleaned up the dishes, put the cake away, and gave him his gift. He looked at Sara and I with the "What the....." look. We joked a little bit, and the proceeded to open the packages. Ten seconds later, we were 12 years old, without a care in the world. the house was our battlefield. Jumping over couches, ducking for cover, even throwing pillows as decoys. It was just like we were on summer break so many years ago. I'm sure the guns will eventually be given away, broken, or end up back in Japan with him. But that 2 and a half hours was what we both needed. Nobody lost, nobody won. Nobody even tried to keep count. The only thing I lost was my breath. I'm still a bit sore a few days later. I think I'm gonna need another dose of that.

The more I think about it, the closer I get to heading to Wal Mart for the Sniper Rifle version.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Vices

As most people know, I have a few too many irons in the fire. As a step to help reduce some stress, I am cutting back on my many, many hobbies. I started the other day with Optrata, Wordpress, a couple of neighborhood blogs, and so forth. I am currently taking inventory of other things to cut back on. My side project (again, one of many) Goufy Shumi is on the chopping block as well. I have slowed my use of Flickr, drastically, and next would be my proper hobbies. I don't have much time for photography anymore, Gunpla has become a pipe dream. Right now, my only hobby is listening to Last.fm and playing my DS. Something's gonna give, and I'm afraid it's gonna be me. Lately, I been going to bed at 9:30 as well as sleeping in every second that I can. Life just hasn't been fun. In an effort to maximize what time I do get away from work, I have to trim things out. Who knows, this blog may be next.