Personal

A few of us went out after work friday. It was interesting. Gus, & Matt were trying to get me to dance with some women we were sitting next to. Now they were very nice women, but I am never good at dancing. I don’t think I am that good at it, but more importantly I just don’t like doing it. The only exception is when I am really drunk. Right before the passed out phase I like to dance! Friday was not one of those times. I never liked meeting women at a bar. It was always weird. I have “hooked up” a few times at bars mostly in college, but I just wasn’t into it that much. As Matt and I discussed, you meet people when you have the “i don’t care what happens attitude”. It is actually true. I have had my best luck meeting women by saying “screw it, what can I loose”, than by thinking about crap and worrying. The problem is you can’t force your self to not care, or I have not been able to. Either you do or you don’t. Not sure if I am making sense or not, but at this point I don’t care. When you have nothing to loose and you realize that, you get the best results. I just wasn’t into the game on friday.

Saturday I hung out with my friend Rich. I guess amanda (his girlfriend) was avoiding me. Kidding, I think she had other plans. We were going to goto see X-2, but by the time we got together and ate dinner it was past the last show. Dam outback has huge lines. He didn’t want to see the Matrix Reloaded. Either everyone I know has seen the dam movie or doesn’t want to go to see it. I may go on monday just to see it, screw going with people.

The rest of Saturday was a lazy day. I got my haircut, and missed breakfast with my parents because of the dam line. I also decided to actually do work on my web site. I am totally fixing up my photo album pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX instead of front-page. It is slow going removing all the front-page html in the site.

So I got the envelope with my executed copy of my new lease. Now all I need to do is call my current land lord and work out some sort of agreement over the last 2 months of rent.

Then there is the endless address change forms to fill out. The ordering of cable, etc.

I need to get a new lock for the door. Turns out I could have put an extra lock on my current apartment and I didn’t even know I could.

Some other good news about this new apartment. It faces west so I won’t get woken up by the rising sun. I have that problem now since I face south east. I get tons of sun. I like it dark when I sleep. It can be bright in the apartment in the afternoon. I am only home in the afternoon on the weekends anyway.

My sister has cool terrace furniture that she is going to show me. I don’t remember where they got it from, but we will take a trip to the store if I like it, so I can get a table and some chairs.

To be honest I have no plans on the agenda for the holiday. I just realized I had off this week. I am not sure if it will be nice out or not. If it is I may goto the beach with my family. I haven’t done that in ages. Of course I can’t check the weather since I have no internet access!!!

I do have a bunch of projects around the house I want to do. I can think I will get some done this weekend, but I probably wont.

I want to frame this picture my sister gave me. I need to finish working on my web site. I need to get my dad my scanner so he can begin to digitize his slide collection. I also have some video’s to encode to MPEG also.

Some of us went out after work today. Miguel knows a friend that promotes parties, so we went to one. Keith, Sam, Alyssa, Jenn, Miguel, Vijay, and I went. It was ok. the drinks were strong, but the music wasn’t setup when we got there. I was tired and needed to get some work done tonight so I took off after 2 drinks with Sam. He gave me a ride to penn station. he is really funny.

A few of us are planning on friday night drinking this weekend. more information on that when I get it. My hands are tired, so more later.

I keep forgetting to update this thing with when I get a migrane. So I got the “beginings of a migrane” today. It was the first one in a about 2 weeks. I took 2 furiset and I feel all better. Actually they make me feel more than all better, but I am not complaining. I worry about these drugs, but it worked.

So I tried sleeping a different way last night. I think the way I lay my arms is causing them to hurt the next day. I think that may be causing my pain when typing and mouse clicking. Not sure. My hands hurt still, but I need to give it a few days and see.

Still have no idea what my plans are for the holiday weekend. Until yesterday I forgot that next monday was a holiday. John and I try again for poker this Saturday.

Our next softball game is tomorrow. It is supposed to rain, so I don’t know what is going to happen. We play my sisters company Standard & Poors. She wasn’t sure if she knew people on the softball team. I assume that they may have more then one since they have like 2000 people working for them.

So I signed the papers today for my new apartment. As much as I wanted to buy something I think in this economy I wanted to keep “liquid”. I am moving into the first apartment I spoke about last week. It is a 1 bedroom in the building complex I currently live in. I am in the other building, on the 19th floor. I have a fantastic view of the manhattan skyline, and a patio.

I get to move in July 1, 2003. Now I have to find a way out of my current lease or else I am paying double rent for 2 months.

The bad news is the furniture I am going to get is not arriving till September or so. My parents are giving me their mint condition living room set, since my mom wants something new. Granted this set is like 15 years old, but she has not let anyone sit on the couch except for company in like 10 years. It is in fantastic shape. The wall unit is huge. They want me to take the dining room set also. That did not wear as well, and I don’t know if I have room for it. I was told I get it after the jewish holiday’s in september, or whenever they fall out this year. I really don’t know. I am that religious.

I am going to wait until after I get back from vacation to take care of all the address changing things. the major deal is changing the cable to the new apartment. I will have pictures before I move in. I have some but they are not very good. I will take a bunch in June after they paint and do the bedroom carpeting.

Now all I need is a girlfriend to hang out at my new place, but that is a different story!!!

Ok so I tried out this fresh direct. It actually was really good. They came within a half an hour of when they said they would. And they apologized for being late! I even cooked up a steak I ordered from them. it was good. This begs to question how lazy can we (i) get? I don’t even have to goto the grocery store if I don’t want to. Is that a good or bad thing? Food shopping is ok to miss out on. But what about regular shopping? I spent about 2 hours with my dad today shopping at best buy. he wanted to look for DVD’s. Waiting on line all I could think about was how we could have just gotten DVD’s off amazon. The scary thing is that he would have probably gotten 50 times the selection off amazon also. So do we shop because we need stuff, or do we shop because it is a social thing and we need stuff? I am getting philosophical, but I took a class in college that focused on post WWII American culture. One aspect we covered was the mall culture. People actually spend the day at the mall, buying things is optional. Is the mall culture dead? Is the online buying culture alive and well? Probably not yet, but I have narrowed down the number of things I need to goto a physical store for by allot. I think there are less things I need to go out to a store for than there are that I can order and have shipped to me. Don’t get me wrong. I like to shop if it is for the write stuff. I actually liked spending time with my dad shopping. I don’t get to spend that much time with him so it was cool, but I avoid the mall now a days. I used to go just to go. Weird world we live in where I changed my entire perspective on something in less than 3 years.

I think I decided on what apartment to get. I will probably pick the first one I saw. The second one looked nicer, but I just had a not so good feeling about it. Even though the real-estate agent is expensive, it is not much more than doing it myself. The guy I would deal directly with wanted me to kick back his friend. The amount he wanted didn’t save me anything, since his rent would be higher than the other apartment.