- Not such good luck with the online poker lately - can't seem to get my head into it, and experience has shown that when I'm not into it, it's not a good idea to play. Still, I forced myself somewhat, since Clau is out I don't need to worry about scheduling or anything like that. However, after stinking up the joint, I've decided to take a little break. Of course, maybe making that decision will get me in the mood again. Who knows.
- Been thinking a lot about my pathetic lack of ability to be a long-distance friend. I'm soooo terrible about keeping in touch with folks - I still keep in occasional contact with most of my friends in California and Santa Barbara, but by occasional I mean "extremely infrequent". And, now, I feel myself losing touch with the folks in New York. Sometimes I wonder if moving here was really the right thing to do. We moved to Munich because there are a lot of things that it provides that New York simply can't - a decent quality of life, easy access to all of Europe, carreer opportunities for Claudia, an opportunity for me to learn another language and culture, a chance to have a two-bedroom apartment, and the list goes on and on. But, one of the things that makes New York great is that the best of the best go there, in everything, and as a result you have the opportunity to meet a LOT of highly intelligent, motivated, interesting people. Over here, not so much; of course, there are smart and fun people wherever you go; I had a lot of similar friends in Oakland (most of whom moved to New York at one point or another!), and I eventually managed to find some similar folks in Santa Barbara, so I'm not hopeless as far as Munich is concerned, but it's certainly not as easy to find good peeps here.
- Actually, reading over that last part, I don't know if it's entirely true; Claudia has managed to find quite a few nice, interesting folks here - even her co-workers are a pretty good crowd. I guess it's more that I haven't felt like we really clicked with anyone yet - for me, the top two classes of friends are folks I like and admire, and am happy to have a beer or conversation with, and there's the top class of folks where there's just that click, and every time you see them it's a blast. We've met plenty of folks from the first category, but none from the second.
- My employer in Munich is soooo different from New York. This will have to wait for another post, because there are a lot of complexities and details.
- As often happens when Claudia goes on a long trip without me, I have re-discovered Starcraft for the umpteenth time. Nothing, but nothing, can suck me into a temporal black hole like that game; it's mental crack cocaine - I can play for hours and hardly be aware of the time. I spent most of the weekend absorbed in the Terran and Zerg missions (yes, I've finished the game before, but I honestly get just as much pleasure every time I play from the top, at least until the end of the Protoss missions when things get ridiculously hard).
- While browsing through Miro, I came across The Hayley Project. What a cool idea - of course, a lot of folks are comparing it to lonelygirl15, although I watched a couple of LG15 episodes (way back in the day, before it broke that it was all staged) and thought "why is this popular again?" As with so many other things, my interest in things like THP is not so much for the thing itself (about 75% of the acting and dialogue is good, the other 25% is pretty amateurish), as much as for the idea. To me, it's the semi-grassroots version of Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, which had some budget and (let's face it) some serious talent behind it. Again, musings on this could fill an entire post (and probably will soon).
So, as you can see, lots going on in my little brain. Actually, now that I've started whetting my appetite, I think I want to tackle one of those "this could be an entire post" topics. Stay tuned.
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