General update: got a haircut this weekend - didn't really want to, but also didn't want to appear too shaggy for my brother's upcoming college graduation. This weekend I fly back to Indiana to see him walk the stage. Then next week, he and my sister-in-law will be out here in SF for a week.
Also got new shoes. Still mismatched, brighter than ever, but this time low top slip-ons. Apparently all it takes to make normal Chuck's into slip-ons is a band of elastic cut through the tongue. Comedy is up to 3 nights a week now, with two shows coming up in 3 weeks. I find myself applying the simpler games to everyday life. In the long run I'm hoping it'll scare off the "nice guy" in me and leave a "rich-character" behind.
I generally don't say that I watch TV, but lately I've been watching House. I like it because I identify with Wilson, it's one of the few shows that pulls off having several attractive females at once, it has Hugh Laurie who comes from a comedy background, and it feels like it delves into what makes people tick more than most shows.
Being staffed over at Twitter is still going pretty well. I feel like I've been an effective Pivot for the team I'm on. But I'm also ashamed to say that I broke the help center for an hour and the other pair had to cook up an emergency patch the day I was out sick (I'm going on two weeks fighting a cough), and I may have been responsible for nuking seven days worth of code check-ins in our source control system. They got the history back, that's the beauty of source control, but things like this make me feel like an amateur when I have every reason to be projecting "professional".
Two more cousins are engaged to be married. I think that just leaves me and one other cousin who isn't out of college yet. I know it isn't a race, but can be hard to ignore the feeling that everyone is running past you.
I'm going out to buy a socket set tomorrow. Maybe a new battery for my cordless drill.
One of the things I've been grappling with lately is... there's a word for it... like deciding to buy a fancy phone and wondering if those purchases not only separate me from my fellow man, but from being 'human' altogether. Such as, "Mankind got along without 500 thread count sheets for thousands of years, do I really need them?" I don't have a good answer, because on one hand, I don't need those luxury items, but on the other, to not use the advantages I've been given and earned feels wasteful.
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