Kansas City Chiefs = Schadenfreude

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Oct 302012
 

I admit that this is bad, but I have been taking a ghoulish delight in the meltdown that is the Kansas City Chiefs this season. Now, this is not because I actually harbor any ill-will towards the team. After all, they aren’t regular opponents of the Browns, and really haven’t done anything particularly heartbreaking against the team. Yes, there was the infamous “helmet” incident, but that was entirely on the Brown’s player, and not something that the Chiefs did.

No, my pleasure is derived from the fact that the Chiefs are proof that people who failed with the Browns previously are, in fact, just not good at their jobs, and that this wasn’t some sort of failure by the Browns to realize untapped potential.

In fact, the Chiefs are practically the Browns v 2.0 right now. The roll call is frightening in terms of who’s migrated over there:

Scott Pioli — GM. He was originally thought to be a top contender for taking over as Brown’s GM, and at the time, was considered to be the best man in the NFL for a GM position. In the end, typical Lerher weirdness took place, with Pioli not getting the job, first being reported as “asking for the moon,” but later reports contradicting such statements. Whatever. As it turns out, it doesn’t look like he was up to the task, as his 4 years have only lead to the current disaster. I will say that Tom Heckett’s time in Cleveland has been far more productive (and, of course, now he may easily be fired at the end of the season due to the new regime, ugh).

Romeo Crennel — When Romeo took over as interim coach last year and won some games, and was then hired on full time, I could see this outcome happening. After all, I saw it in Cleveland: he has a great run, and then just can not keep the team together as a head coach. A great guy by all accounts, but seemingly overwhelmed with how to fix problems on the team.

Brain Daboll — Daboll, as all Browns fans remember, was an offensive coordinator for the first time with the Browns, having previously been a QB coach. He wound up taking a huge amount of flak in Cleveland for the tepid play-calling, low-scoring, and general offensive ineptitude. I don’t think that anyone in the city was sad to see him go. He went on to the Dolphins, and started to have some more success (although the Dolphins were one of the 4 teams to lose to the Browns). But so far his work at the Chiefs has still been as uninspiring as ever. Recently, the big complaint is that he is not getting the ball to his best players — a charge, by the way, that was often leveled at him here in Cleveland.

(By the way, all of the three gents above were part of the Patriots dynasty of the early 2000s, so it’s easy to see why they would all form together again.)

Brady Quinn — 1st round draft pick of the Browns, meant to be Cleveland’s new franchise QB. He came from a winning program, was a Browns fan as a kid, and was instantly loved by the fan base. Unfortunately, he turned out to transition poorly to the pro game, having constant accuracy problems and also injury issues. In fact, even the old Browns motif of the QB controversy is now inherited by the Chiefs: Matt Cassel is benched for mediocre play, Brady is officially given the job for the rest of the season, but then Brady is injured in his first game as a starter, and now Cassel is back as the starter for a couple games. This is exactly the same type of thing that the Browns have suffered through for years with Couch/Holcomb, and Anderson/Quinn. Especially because it was essentially one average QB replacing another.

Peyton Hillis — The breakout star and darling of the fans the year he hit over 1,000 yards rushing, Hillis then followed that up with a year marred by injuries, bad agent decisions, flakiness on a level not seen since a reality TV show, and questionable work ethics. Oh, and fumbles. He did get things together in the last few games of the season, but by then, it was too late. Now, he works on the Chiefs, but still has problems with fumbles and injuries.

For me, the most beautiful moment of this whole ordeal for the Chiefs was this excerpt for the recap of their week 2 game against the Buffalo Bills, which KC lost 17 – 35:

“I thought that we would be better, and we’re not,” coach Romeo Crennel said. “So we have to try and figure out what that is. From what I’ve seen, if we do what we’re supposed to do, then we would be better.”

KC’s offense managed just 71 yards on its first five possessions and then coughed up the ball on its sixth, when Hillis fumbled at the goal line.

“I messed up and let the team down,” Hillis said. “I put the blame on myself.”

I swear, replace the “KC’s” with “Brown’s” and this would have been a word-for-word reprint from a Browns recap of a loss just a couple of years ago.

The Greatest Mistake In The History of The Planet

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Oct 072012
 

I was talking with a friend this weekend about something that I’ve been dwelling on a bit more recently, for no actual reason, but nevertheless, fits well with the upcoming holiday:

The discovery of America was really just the result of two utterly massive mistakes, by both Columbus, and by his contemporaries; but when the two mistakes combined, they cancelled themselves out in a spectacular explosion.

It’s becoming better established that people in Columbus’ time were well versed in the knowledge that the world was a sphere. So, Columbus’ great revelation wasn’t about the world being round and thus enabling him to sail east to reach India. Rather, his big idea was that he was pretty sure that the world was much smaller than it really was. He drastically under-estimated the miles between the shores of Spain and India, unlike everyone around, who were, in fact, correct, that the voyage between the two countries was far to vast to make before running out of supplies.

Now, I have seen it said that Columbus’ big advantage was that he was considered to be one of the best navigators, and was able to use the trade wings across the Atlantic Ocean with great affect to speed across the waters. but the other advantage he had was that the ones who said that the world was too big to sail around (and were right about this) were also completely wrong in assuming that all of that mileage was nothing but trackless water. Nobody had the slightest idea, it seems, that there was this gargantuan continent that stretched from North Pole to South Pole, almost, sitting smack in the middle of the “empty” ocean.

As I told my friend about this, I also remarked, that for me, the thing that blows my mind is that there’s nothing in our current lives that can replicate a discovery of this magnitude. Because remember, this not only was a “whole new world” (sorry, Aladdin) with its own unknown cultures, food, and resources, but it was also someplace that was within reach of the sea vessels of the time. This wasn’t something where Columbus had the most technically advanced ships of the age, and everyone else had to spend years catching up before they could also make the voyage. Once Columbus revealed this new land, pretty much all countries that were already well-known to the sea were able to make the journey.

What would that be like today? What could it be? Where could we not only find a whole new land with its own vast landscape, food, and natives, but also was somewhere that was easy for pretty much all countries to reach who had reached a certain level of technological advancement. It’d be like if we suddenly, one day, discovered a huge floating island that nobody ever seemed to notice before, but now we could actually travel to and from using the airships that we already have today.

It’s an idea I’d like to try and develop. I’m not sure into what form, yet, but definitely something that would allow me to explore it in great detail. Regardless, it’s also just fun to think about.

Quirky Football Note

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Sep 302012
 

Currently, the Cleveland Browns have the same record as the New Orleans Saints: 0-4.

I doubt anyone would claim that the Browns are on the same playing field as the Saints, but it is rather amusing when you consider the old adage: “Nothing matters except the Ws.” And right now, neither the Browns nor the Saints have any.

Personally, I think the Browns have the bigger challenge — they get to go and play the Giants on the road next week, so I doubt anyone is considering that one as an upset. Mind you, the Browns did upset the Giants on national television back in 2008, so stranger things have happened.

Touch of Enchiladas

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Sep 162012
 

Enchiladas actually have nothing to do with this post; I just liked the sound of it.

I hosted my friend John over the weekend, mainly Saturday night. We meet up in the city, treated ourselves to some classic McD’s, and then returned to my apartment to partake in a screening of “Touch of Evil.” I have had this film since Christmas, and so I was glad to finally get a chance to see it. And given the rather depressing tone of the past week, I figured that this was just the ticket to a bright, cheerful, and perky weekend! Heh.

Very dark and disturbing in a number of ways, and overall a very well put-together film. There is only one part of the film that I’m a bit confused about, namely why the wife was dropped off at that particular hotel, but fortunately it wasn’t enough to take me out of the film. I enjoyed the debate about the point of the cops and the law, as well as the underlying racial tension that pretty still resonates today.

I saw John off into the city today, and I was planning on going over to Best Buy to get some replacement speakers for my computer, but, well, brilliant ol’ me, I forgot the gift cards back at my place. So, looks like I’ll be working with only 1 working speaker for a while, still. My best guess right now is that I can pick some new ones up on Friday, when I should be going in to the city for a lunch. I could always pick them up before either my basketball or soccer game, I suppose, although then I have to lug them to the scrimmages, and then back home. I’ll play it by ear.

Tonight, it’ll be more Thief: Gold, and then some work on my mobile game idea; I just need to write up the details into my own person GDD, and I will then be all set to use it as the testing grounds for my Unity self-teaching lessons. I’m actually really looking forward to this — I’ve been able to absorb a lot of what I read concerning Unity, and have gotten to the part where I can start seeing how to put things together in order to make the game work. Of course, the coding aspect is going to be tricky to fully learn, but all the same, I’m feeling pretty good about the dive in.

A Plague Upon My House

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Sep 132012
 

So, I had said, jokingly, to some friends and family recently that I may have been cursed by some deity based on the fact I’ve had a rather rough go of it within the gaming industry — now, however, I’m starting to think that this is actually the case. At the very least, I have the old biblical signs of a disapproving higher power as insects have decided to hold their annual convention in my apartment. Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve had problems with cockroaches, mosquitoes, and flies.

Roaches are an ongoing concern as long as you live within 5 miles of NYC, but I actually had been doing well in that I hadn’t seen any for several months. But then, I caught one trying to get across the carpet, and then again last night, one popped up on my computer desk. …the hell?! I know that I eat around the desk, but it’s far cleaner here in than in the kitchen. I’m glad that I haven’t seen them in the kitchen, at least, but still, why are they out around my working space all of the sudden?

The mosquitoes and flies are less of a mystery — I open the window and have no screen, so they just come on in of their own accord. But still, today, there were 2 flies buzzing around, and the last thing I need while I’m unemployed is the feeling that I’m living in a cartoon stereotype of living in a dump.

The exterminator is making his monthly visit to the building on Saturday, but it looks like I’m going to be out at that time going to meet up with a friend. Which, by the way, seems to be the 10th time in a row that he stops by the day that I am not around.

Like I said; cursed-boy, right here.

One bit of good news

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Sep 122012
 

A couple of weeks ago, I had submitted a proposal for a speaking gig at GDC — as my friend Julia put it, we have at least a 0.0001% chance of getting on the list. I was actually feeling better about mine, though, as I already had the presentation pretty much finished. I had given last year when I was at Arkadium, and everyone really enjoyed it. Plus, I later turned it into a opinion piece that got published on one of the gaming industry websites. So, I felt that that boosted my chances by at least 0.001%. Woot!

But, when I gave the submission, I had put down my Arkadium email as the point of contact. Since I no longer have that, I was worried that on the off chance I got accepted, I wouldn’t ever hear about it. Which, you know, would really be a bummer.

So, yesterday I sent an email to the contact listed about submissions for GDC, explaining my predicament. But heck, who knew if that would work? I was expecting that at the very least it would take a while before I heard back.

But lo! I actually got a reply today, stating that the email address has been switched! That was a nice, pleasant surprise. It’s still a pretty slim chance that I’ll get in, but at least I’ll hear back yes or no on the matter, instead of worrying that I might have missed my shot.

It’s also reminded me that I should start on another new article/opinion piece. Now that I have some actually out there, I might have some better luck getting in on my own. And if nothing else, I would like to do some actual little video pieces. I really did enjoy doing those presentations at the Monday Meetings, and they were a great chance for me to research and learn more about a topic. Much fun.

Is That Webhosting Company Still Around?

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Sep 112012
 

The title is what I was thinking to myself as I started to dig through my notes and papers about my webhosting company. It’s been funny, because when I was in Grad school, and immediately afterward, there was so much importance being placed on having an online presence that it seemed ludacious that there would ever be a time that I would find less and less inclination to maintain my own digital life. But, then the rise of things like Facebook, LinkedIn, and even the various MMOs like League of Legends make things ever-easier to have a stake in the web without having to worry about html coding, css scripts, or image folders.

But as my Game Design site was in drastic need of updating (it’s been about 2 years), I spent most of today reliving the glory days from years past: firing up FileZilla, editing html and css pages, and digging through my old papers for passwords that I haven’t needed for ages. To my pleasant surprise, not only was my webhosting service still in existence (which, I guess, should have been clear from the fact that my website was still up), but I was also able to make the updates to the site without have to look at any reference books — for the most part, it was just a lot of grunt work of resizing images and typing in the new file names.

Of course, I wanted to do a complete site redesign about halfway through, but in the end decided it was best to get the site fully updated first, and then I can mess around with the redesign project later. If it’s going to happen, I want to make sure I take the time to do it right, rather than rush through some decisions that, in the end, weren’t in my best interest.

All in all, I spent a lot of time today updating all the info, and I’m definitely glad to get that out of the way. With that finished, anyone who happens to actually check out the site will be looking at information that now matches what my resume depicts. That’s probably going to be a good thing.

A dash of the family in NYC

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Nov 062011
 

Had dinner with my cousins Vicki, Natalie, and Cindy, my Uncle Paul and Aunt Linda, and a few friends of Vicki’s tonight. Vicki is currently in town to run that whole marathon thing that you might have heard about on Sunday, and the family and friends decided to fly out to support her. Of course, nobody is really sure where she will be at what time, and since she’ll be running with about, oh, 45,000 other people, it might be tough to spot her in the actual race, but hey — we are there in spirit!

I went out to join the group for dinner tonight, and what made this particularly nice was that I hadn’t seen Cindy or Natalie at the wedding last month, so this was a nice substitute. We caught up on the latest happenings with them and their own families, and also the bizarre news that Natalie was told her Driod phone would cost $650 to get replaced, despite her having insurance on it. Uhm, yeah. I told her that she received faulty info from the store clerk she had talked to.

Something else of importance I learned tonight is that it’s daylight savings time again. Heh, I had completely forgotten about that….

Well, this just means that I can stay up an hour later! Woo!

Then, tomorrow, I need to catch up with the family to figure out how we’re going to find Vicki in the throng of humanity running down 5th Ave., and afterward I’m off to my touch football playoffs, while they seek out the nearest Packers sports bar. I may join them later, but depends on how sweaty I wind up being. I also think I might try to touch base with them on Monday night, as well; hopefully it works out, as I won’t see Cindy and Natalie again until well into the next year.

But for now, onward to finish my laundry.

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That’s a lot of cardboard….

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Sep 212011
 

Okay, so I’ve been in my new place for about a week and a half so far. This month has actually been refreshingly busy in terms of me doing things on evenings and weekends rather than just sitting around thinking that “I should be doing things.” Here’s a quick recap of the whole apartment move/settling in events:

  • I screwed up on my timing — I forgot that on a month-to-month lease, you have to not only give a least a month’s notice, but that it can only happen at the start of the month. So, when I gave my notice to my old landlord in the middle of August, I discovered that I would have to pay for the whole month of September, anyway. This caught me off-guard, and I was not too happy, as I am actually right now paying for two different apartments.
  • However, I did manage to salvage some of this. The person who was in my current place wasn’t out until the very last day, and then the painter needed to stop in, and then Hurricane Irene was coming up the coast, and well, it just made more sense for me to put a hold on moving until the following weekend, on the 10th.
  • This also helped in that I was able to get Lacy and Dex to stop out and help me pick up the U-Haul and then proceed to load it up. There was some concern on my part about getting the truck in time, and we took a wrong turn looking for the U-Haul center (all my fault), but in the end once we swung into loading action, we finished up within an hour, easily.
  • I learned that next time, I need more boxes. I had a lot of bags for my linens, and they just do not stack very well.
  • I wound up dropping pretty much all of my furniture, some earlier that week, and some that morning. That means that my futon, dresser, computer desk, and tall bookshelf were broken down and tossed. I was saddest about the futon, as was really the first thing I had bought in NYC, and had been with me through my earlier moves. I was thinking about selling it or something, but given that the frame was just $20 when I bought it, and the mattress was covered in sweat stains, well, I didn’t see it commanding a pick-up, let alone any type of price.
  • Lacy took my old desktop (which I had mailed from my parent’s house and then wound up never using — not a good sign that I wound use it ever again), and I recycled my old laptops, but I did remove the hard drives from all of them, so I’ll look at getting some of those external hard drive mounts to plug in to the current computer so I can be sure to salvage my old files.
  • Dex mentioned that I was driving into NYC the weekend of the 9/11 10th year anniversary, and that there had been some terrorist threats going on, and wondered at the wisdom of it all. Not the news you want to hear after you’re all packed up.
  • The attempt to do a final vacuuming failed miserably as the vacuum was still stuffed with all of that carpet fluff. I happily left it on the curb.
  • Then, after Lacy scored some of my old electronics, they bid me farewell, and I was off. The trip was not too bad — traffic wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared, and I was only stopped 3 times at safety checkpoints to have the truck inspected by the cops. There was about 30 minutes of frustration in Brooklyn when I was suddenly confronted with an onslaught of “No Trucks” roads, blocking me from getting the places I needed to be. After a bit of backtracking and slipstreaming, I finally managed to get through and reach my place.
  • Over the course of the next few hours, people started to show up to help. People I knew, that is, not just random strangers on the street. Julia & her hubby, Joe, and even eventually Will (with his wife and daughter, although they were excused from hefting boxes). What started out slowly with just me making one trip at a time from the truck to the apartment ended up with the 5 of us acting like a well-oiled machine, getting the truck unpacked and everything up to the new place.
  • Afterward, Joe gave me a lift to and back from the U-Haul drop-off place, and I learned how to use the Navigator app on my phone, finally. Well, sort of, as I must have hit something wrong since it wasn’t following my little arrow.
  • Since then, I’ve made several trips to the Brooklyn Ikea, mostly for research. Between that and my research online, I was able to go ahead amass a large quantity of inexpensive yet sturdy furniture, such as a dresser, desk, and many bookcases.
  • I also got a Couch and matching comfy chair for free; a lady who was moving out 1 floor below me was giving them away. They are of decent shape, are bug free, and certainly fit into my budget, so I was happy to take them in.

At this point, it’s a matter of breaking down/storing some cardboard boxes, throwing away most of them, organizing the many things on the bookshelves that aren’t, in fact, books, and getting plants. Oh, and hanging pictures. So, yeah, still much to be done.

It’s also been a bit on the pricy side as well — the furniture wasn’t too costly individually, but whew, there was a good amount of it. After all, I spent about 6-8 hours putting it all together, and wound up surprisingly sore for a couple of days afterward. I still think I need to pick up a few more items, too: a couple of lamps, some placemats, maybe another bookcase with doors, etc. But the bulk of things have been dealt with.

So, that’s one thing that’s been keeping me busy. Another is the start of rec sports season for me.

Basketball scrimmage was last night, and things kick off next week. Ironically, despite it just being Jen, Jack, and myself for the full 40 minutes, I never got winded. True, aside from a few moments I never really was pushing hard (it was just a scrimmage, after all, and I had no desire to get hurt), but the really weird thing was that I played a lot better than I have in a long time. I think it might have been because I was pretty much relaxed and loose during the game, so I wasn’t tensing up on my shots and passes. We actually wound up destroying the other team, something like 26-14 or something, but part of that was just due to some mismatches between me and the guys guarding me, and also that I think they weren’t as comfortable as a team as Jack, Jen, and I have gotten. I’m sure once the regular season kicks in and things pick up, it’ll be a lot tougher.

We also need to find a couple more players, especially on the female side of the bench. We only have 2 girls on the roster, and since you have to have at least 1 girl on the court at all times, this doesn’t give a lot of elbow room if someone has to miss a night. It’d also be good to get another guy, although I certainly am not complaining about having more playing time.

I also got involved with a football team, much to my surprise and delight. Apparently, the captain was friends with a girl I played with this summer, and my name was passed along when the captain was looking to fill out the roster. So far, so great! We had our scrimmage 2 weekends ago and played our 1st real game this past Sunday, winning both. What I’m most excited about is that we have a few really good QBs — Scott can throw the length of the field — and if there’s one thing I learned from playing so far, it’s that you live or die by your QB.

I also continue to be amazed by the fact that I have been playing consistently well. Part of it, no doubt, is that the other teams so far have been playing together for the first time, and have not been really hardcore. When I volunteered and reffed the next game this past Sunday, both teams were really intense: one, in particular, huddled before every play to draw up a play, had their own custom shirts, and seemed to constantly have a grimace on their face, like it was causing them pain every second that they weren’t scoring. A bit disturbing.

As far as I can tell, things will continue to be busy for the foreseeable future. Besides sports twice a week (when did I become a jock? This still blows my mind…) I’ve been pushing to get the apartment wrapped up so I can have a little official housewarming party, and I want to do that before October. Beyond that, the “push for Madness” will begin in earnest, and that will soak up quite a bit of free time as well.

As long as I keep turning “busy” into “productive,” I’m in good shape.

4J

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Aug 212011
 

No, that’s not some type of code or anything — rather that is my new address. Or will be, anyway, by September 4th. I was down in Brooklyn this afternoon, and officially signed the lease for the Studio apartment. And, actually, 4J is just the apartment number, not the full address. So don’t try sending something with just “4J” written on the envelope. It won’t work. …on second thought, try that anyway, and see what happens. I’m sensing a highly metaphor-laden artsy independent film evolving from the experiment.

Whatever the case, this now means many things: (boy, I love lists, don’t you?)

  1. I have now marked off 2 of the 3 “big” things I was hoping to get done this summer. The first was the sale of the car, and the third (as of yet unresolved) one is the Kickstarter launch of my board game. I feel that the latter will have to wait until the fall, since I still want to get that video made first. However, I can, at least, start focusing much more on the production side of things: get quotes from card printers, investigate into having custom pieces made, and try to recruit some more accomplished artists to help dress up the game. The nice thing is that at least I can attempt to maintain the ratio of 1 Big Thing a month, and it’s possible I might be able to launch at the end of September.
  2. I have to make moving plans. My choices are either getting a U-Haul and some friends, or hiring a moving company. I would like to try the former, but getting my friends together to help me move, esp. at the end of Labor Day weekend, will be tough to pull off. So, while I shake some trees to see who falls out, I shall also use somewhat outdated metaphors during my research into local moving companies. The funny thing is that I doubt that I’m going to be moving much in the way of “big” stuff. The queen mattresses are really the sole thing — all my desks and bookcases are the type that should be able to be broken down. And even then, I think it’s time to sell/give away some of the things I have. For example, my little dresser has been a steady companion since I bought it when I first moved to NYC, but it’s been missing it’s bottom drawer for a while, now, and doesn’t come close to holding all of my clothes. Likewise, I think it may be time to bid farewell to my trusty twin futon, also purchased upon arrival (well, a month later, really) in the city. Besides just making a lighter load, there is another reason for this, which is….
  3. It’s time to upgrade things again. I went through this whole “upgrade” phase about 6 years ago, right before I moved to NYC to start Grad School. In this case, honestly, I think the sudden shift is that I have cleared out all my debt, and have started to save some real money. I have (and will have) more money coming in from my paychecks because I will have much less going out each month.  But beyond that, I think I also hit a threshold where I’m just tied of living in spots that don’t, well, really looked all that lived in. So, rather than continue to get things on the cheap and solely focusing on functionality, I’m going to be looking more at things that fit within my mindset for what the new apartment will look like, which contains the following ideas (did I mention I like making lists? consider it mentioned):
    • Print out some of my photos to large sizes and hang up on the walls. The shots from around Wisconsin in July are likely to be the main components
    • Upgrade the following furniture (more lists! Arg!):
      • Dresser
      • Kitchen table
      • Chairs
      • Love Seat/Couch (Hey, maybe I should call Julie and tell her I bought a couch — based on her previous logic she would be breaking down the door for a date)
      • Entertainment Center
    • Get some new sheets, towels, etc. with more of a Blue/Green color palette
    • Get some actual plants
  4. Lock down plans for my vacations. I have a full compliment of vacation days and personal days, plus the holidays. Now that I know that I will be in Brooklyn, I can see about getting tickets for trips home for Hayley’s wedding, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. And, hey, maybe a trip of my own. No idea where I would go, but I’ve always said that it’d be nice to take a trip on my own somewhere. Maybe it’s time to make a jaunt to Tibet….

I’ll miss this apartment, particularly the large kitchen (and the non-pick bathroom), but just the flexibility in being being able to visit friends and events in the city without fear of missing my last train home will be a welcome change. In addition, the place I’m at is just off the G train to Barcade, is a short walk from Prospect Park, and a short bike ride from John’s Bakery. Oh, yeah, and I will likely be getting a bike soon after moving. There are bike lanes all around my new place.

I think it’ll take a little bit to adjust to the smaller small, but honestly, not much. I really wasn’t using too much of my current place, and I’m pretty sure that there are a number of things that I can drop before the move. A good time for a purge of the old, and all that.

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