Friday, December 07, 2007
A Few Random Thoughts
Yes, it's Friday night, and I'm home blogging.
We had our first snow this week. It was a small one. I like snow. Specifically, I like so that is so heavy, my office is closed and I can stay home.
I need a haircut.
There are more people in my condo's gym now. Two reasons for that, I think. First, there are the people who would walk or run outside, but now that the snow's here they've moved inside. Then there is the post-Thanksgiving crowd, the "oh no, I put on so much weight, I'm really going to start working out now!" people. They will fade out by Christmas, but then we will get the New Year's Resolution people for a couple weeks in January.
A lot of these people are carrying on conversations while walking on the treadmill or talking on the cell phones, or whatever. I don't really care if people want a hard workout or not, that's their business, but when I get into the gym and can't get on a treadmill or elliptical machine because of these people, then I get annoyed.
Danny is on vacation in Hong Kong now. Lucky bastard.
Linh has final exams now. I do not miss taking those at all. Nor do I miss grading those things.
I have been Christmas shopping and it feels good!
Tonight I made cookies. New recipe. We'll see how that works out.
The mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska hit home for me this eek. That, of course, is where I went to high school, and I know that mall very well. The shooter is from Bellevue the town where I lived, though he went to a different high school. It's weird to see familiar places all over the news again in a tragedy. (I was also pretty familiar with Virginia Tech, the site of our worst shooting ever last spring)
I think it's time for the Christmas tree to go up.
My office Christmas party was today. It was a bowling party. Somehow, that doesn't quite say "Christmas" to me. I skipped it and stayed at the office catching up on work.
Kester in Honolulu is taking a choral class and is performing a couple concerts at a local mall. THAT says Christmas!
Kester, by the way, knows someone else I know from Singapore besides knowing Allan. Again, I am amazed by how tiny this world is sometimes. Facebook helps keep everything straight...even the gays.
My Gaylasian friends have discovered Facebook. I love that. I love them. I miss them.
San Francisco was a lot of fun. I like that city. Though Honolulu was warmer.
I find I'm getting out and doing more on the weeknights, and that is a good thing.
Richmond Michael will move away in a week and that makes me sad.
Eddie in Malaysia just started a new term at his university this week.
There are things in the air, amazing possibilities that are just a short reach away...we'll see what comes of them.
I'm glad I made it to the gym 4 times this week as planned, but the numbers on the scale haven't changed in a week. Not that they could change very much, of course.
We had our first snow this week. It was a small one. I like snow. Specifically, I like so that is so heavy, my office is closed and I can stay home.
I need a haircut.
There are more people in my condo's gym now. Two reasons for that, I think. First, there are the people who would walk or run outside, but now that the snow's here they've moved inside. Then there is the post-Thanksgiving crowd, the "oh no, I put on so much weight, I'm really going to start working out now!" people. They will fade out by Christmas, but then we will get the New Year's Resolution people for a couple weeks in January.
A lot of these people are carrying on conversations while walking on the treadmill or talking on the cell phones, or whatever. I don't really care if people want a hard workout or not, that's their business, but when I get into the gym and can't get on a treadmill or elliptical machine because of these people, then I get annoyed.
Danny is on vacation in Hong Kong now. Lucky bastard.
Linh has final exams now. I do not miss taking those at all. Nor do I miss grading those things.
I have been Christmas shopping and it feels good!
Tonight I made cookies. New recipe. We'll see how that works out.
The mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska hit home for me this eek. That, of course, is where I went to high school, and I know that mall very well. The shooter is from Bellevue the town where I lived, though he went to a different high school. It's weird to see familiar places all over the news again in a tragedy. (I was also pretty familiar with Virginia Tech, the site of our worst shooting ever last spring)
I think it's time for the Christmas tree to go up.
My office Christmas party was today. It was a bowling party. Somehow, that doesn't quite say "Christmas" to me. I skipped it and stayed at the office catching up on work.
Kester in Honolulu is taking a choral class and is performing a couple concerts at a local mall. THAT says Christmas!
Kester, by the way, knows someone else I know from Singapore besides knowing Allan. Again, I am amazed by how tiny this world is sometimes. Facebook helps keep everything straight...even the gays.
My Gaylasian friends have discovered Facebook. I love that. I love them. I miss them.
San Francisco was a lot of fun. I like that city. Though Honolulu was warmer.
I find I'm getting out and doing more on the weeknights, and that is a good thing.
Richmond Michael will move away in a week and that makes me sad.
Eddie in Malaysia just started a new term at his university this week.
There are things in the air, amazing possibilities that are just a short reach away...we'll see what comes of them.
I'm glad I made it to the gym 4 times this week as planned, but the numbers on the scale haven't changed in a week. Not that they could change very much, of course.
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