I am already on vacation. I left at 5:15pm on Friday, and I do not expect to have to return to work for 10 days. Life is good.
I'm doing laundry, getting ready to pack. I'm one of those guys who brings more wires, power adaptors, and electronic gizmos than clothes. So far, I'm bringing:2 mobile phones, a Gameboy Advance SP, an iPod (everyone needs an iPod), a laptop, and a digital camera. Let's face it...if I can get through airport check in without being stopped, I despair for safety on aircraft in this day and age.
T shirts, jeans, sneakers, docksiders, overshirts....I don't expect it to be cold, and I'm thinking it won't rain. Of course, I'm an idiot.
Debating bringing along this happy portable DVD burner I just bought. I got it because my old one is slow and bad and evil. And because I really needed a new DVD burner. Take my word for it.
That reminds me to install Puzzle Pirates on my laptop.
I've been doing more surfing and more reading of blogs in general. Wow. There are so many people out there blogging...and they're all cool. Is the intent of writing a blog to impress the fuck out of other people? Because if it is, there's a ton of them that just make me despair in not knowing those people. No, I'm not going to share.
My friend M in London keeps putting me on to these sexual orientated blogs. Not pornographic, per se...just blogs of call girls and escorts, professional dominatrices, that sort of thing. I think there's something very interesting about all of it...and I think it has mainly to do with the objectification of sex in general. I know my blog is usually PG-13 rated, but it's my fucking blog, and I'll talk about what I like. Anyway, the anecdotal stuff found on these really makes me wonder about the world in general. Not in a "Ohmigod, what perverts!" kinda way...because frankly, what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms (or in the back row of a movie theatre) is their business, as long as I'm not forced to participate. And I expect people to hold the same courtesy for me, by the way. More in a "That's a mindset that exists out there and I have no idea how it got there." I am a pretty imaginative guy, all things considered. I play a lot of RPGs, and I always have. But in no way can I get into the mind of some of these people. And that fascinates me to no end.
I suppose that blogs on cooking or videogames or hockey or any "G-rated" topic also lend insight into the psyche of the writer...but nothing lays a soul bare like the topic of sex. Sexual inclinations and preferences are something that some people swear they can "just tell." I think there's no way to know...and it's that no way to know that makes things interesting, isn't it?