Robot Claw

I woke before 7am, and ate a hearty bacon breakfast that KLS had cooked for me. Shortly after she left for work, and I logged onto WoW for fifteen minutes or so to quickly do my daily quests. Around this time a loud hubbub outside distracted me and I was surprised to see our neighbours were having the largest tree in their frontyard removed…

I moved out to the living room and set up to do some schoolwork. For the next 2 hours or so I prepared classes and began work on next weeks midterm exam whilst listening to the new Morrissey album (Years Of Refusal). It’s rockier than his previous effort, and so far seems not as much of a masterpiece. I also ate some chocolate cake during this period, and washed it down with orange-mango juice.

I called my good friend SFL during the morning and we chatted as we usually do. During the call a great bang scared me greatly – I was sure the tree that was being removed had fallen onto the house! Luckily it had not, but so great was the weight of the trunk falling it sounded (and felt) like a bomb going off!

KLS took a half-day today and came home around midday. We went to Cynderellas for lunch (surprise, surprise) and I ate the usual. At this point we tried to decide if we should ‘do anything’ to make the afternoon special. Nothing came to mind and we went back home.

During the early afternoon I played a variety of games I had received for my birthday (more on these later) and spent quite some time getting used to my new iPod Touch (think of it as more of an internet/games device and less a music player, at least as far as I am concerned). Later in the afternoon we decided to go and see a movie.

We left the house before 5 and spent a little while shopping before going to an evening screening of Slumdog Millionaire, which was really a bit of a masterpiece. We didn’t get out of the film until 9pm, and had completely skipped dinner. At this point though I was barely hungry, so dinner will be a bowl of ramen at home. It’s ready now in fact, and KLS is teasing me to come eat!

After dinner I expect a gigantic piece of chocolate cake will be washed down, and perhaps some more iPod Touch tinkering will occur. Possibly followed by some more Puzzle Quest: Galactrix on the DS before bed. I can’t stay up too late you see, not just because I have to get up early to head to school.

But because I’m an old man now ;P

We’re at the cinema RIGHT NOW waiting to see the Chun Li Street Fighter film. I don’t know why they sold me an entire seat since I’m sure I’ll only be using the edge!!!

I read an article after last week’s plane crash about another plane crashing into a house, back on March 3 1972. Intriguingly enough the crash occurred not 15 minutes from where we now live in Schenectady, NY and the cause is to this day unknown. I don’t know how many or who were on that plane, but it was morbidly interesting to note that they died the very day I was born.

< Cowboy

In class the other day I tried to impress upon my students the futility of planning too much for the future. Of course none of them care much at this point – full of youthful optimism that they are – but my message was that it’s difficult to control what may be especially since the energy is better spent trying to wrangle what is. Do your homework now, instead of planning to do it the morning it is due.

As I bid farewell to my 37th year it is with more than a little astonishment as to what I have accomplished, seen and done in this time. Furthermore, I am humbled by the fact that when I truly attempt to chronologue events in my mind it seems like a very long time has passed, which is to say life may not move as quickly as it seems, and even if it has we are afforded more than enough time to make the most of it!

This bodes well for my future. Given that I expect at least as many years to come as have already passed, who knows what else is in store for me?