May 12, 2009

  • - Okay, it's been on folks. No more Mr.Nice Guy for me on Facebook. If you send me an app that I don't like participating in, I'm not just going to ignore it, I'm going to BLOCK APP it. So long to passing a drink and good riddance to pillow fights.

    - Remember my issue about dust getting under the screen of my Blackberry Storm? It's gotten worse. A good chunk of dust has finally gravitated towards the center of my screen, and it's very obvious now. I'm going to attempt a couple of the DIY videos that I saw on youtube when I get the nerve to do it. Hopefully I don't break my phone.

    - A song and video that I'm a big fan of is Eve6's "Here's to the night." It's probably my favorite song of that band; who hit it big in the late 90s early 2000s. I find it to be a very melancholy type of song though, singing about the good times that was had in the past (emphasis on "in the past"). The video even shows what it was like hanging out with friends, just casually, but lively, in somebody's house. At my age, I found myself rarely doing that anymore. Sure I still hang out with people, but it's not like it used to be. Lately however, I've been trying to recapture those types of moments, especially when I hang out with my fellow Meg & Dia fans (boardies). I feel like I'm cheating though, because most of them are after all much younger than I am, and logically "that kind of hanging out" is still very much the present for them. So I'm relieving my past through them I suppose. Is that wrong?

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  • Hmmm... dunno I still hang out.  Of course my version of hanging out is a hacking session or screwing around things with other people.  The thing is, even in college, hanging out for me involved a type of activity.  I even hang out with my wife because we did that sort of thing before we were married.  I get cabin fever really often so there's lots of opportunity to just get out and change up the routine. 

    Also it really helps that ever since college, I pretty much stopped watching TV.  Video games fell off the map a few years after that.  That affords a lot of time for other things.  Not to mention the fact that it's really easy for me to notice how influenced people are by TV and games.

    What doesn't happen these days is just sitting in my room for quiet time.  Sometimes I do miss that, however meditation and martial arts is a good substitute.

  • @darren_macintyre - Well that's exactly what I'm saying. Hanging out nowadays for our age group almost always need to have some kind of reason or purpose for doing so. Hanging out "just because" doesn't seem to happen very often for me anymore. A situation like in the music video for "Here's to the night" rarely occurs like it used to "back in the day." BTW, Hanging out with the wife is not the same thing.

    Part of the problem for me is that I'm never fully available for my friends to even give the option of hanging out. I'm usually with the wife doing something together (be it family or grocery shopping), or I'm at work, or I already have plans to do something (which happens more often than not). I'm actually not at home as often as you would think, and if I was, it would mostly be when I'm sleeping, eating, or catching up on TV. Getting out and changing up the routine is ssooo not the problem, in fact I wish I could just sit in my room for some quiet time but there's always something I have to do. I wish I could have the option to say "I'm bored" like some people do, because I honestly don't have a reason to say that.

  • @darren_macintyre - "Not to mention the fact that it's really easy for me to notice how influenced people are by TV and games."

    Well that's a fascinating statement.

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