On the move..

I am moving again for the seventh time in five years, but only six blocks away. This time I am running away from a crazy roommate. It is possible that I am flighty.

My father is a poet

date Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM
subject Happy Birthday

Hi! Andy,

This morning, I whispered my greeting in my head, hoping that the electronic field, the light, the wind and any other super-natural power will deliver instantly to you my best wishes and sincere thoughtfulness.

Happy Birthday to You. All the Best.

Love,
Dad

I have become very lax in my blogging. Alas.

Yesterday I was thinking that working 9-5 should really mean leaving the house at 9 and getting back at 5. I should attempt to convince my employers of this new definition.

In the past few months, I spent a lot of money trying to buy happiness. I purposely did this to test the old adage. Turns out you really can't buy happiness. Or at least I didn't. Photography equipment, video cameras, scooters, clothing, and expensive food didn't work. But maybe I was just buying the wrong things and should have been spending my money on prostitutes.

But I guess almost all my happiness and depressions have nothing to do with money. The only purchased thing in my life that really made me happy was my car. And crashing it was the only really truly depressing thing that was caused by a material good. (I am still in mourning, and in year eight of my self-imposed vow to not have a car for ten years.) But then I guess the car had nothing to do with it. The car just represented the only time in my life I got what I wanted.

Big, Bigger, Biggest

At the corner coffeeshop, coffee drinks come in three sizes: Short, Tall, and Grande, in increasing size.

Short is smaller than Tall. This makes perfect sense. But why is Tall smaller than Grande? Tall means big. Grande means big. Is an Italian big bigger than an English one? I think they should take the idea further, and just use the word for "large" in all different languages, and distinguish between them based on the average size of that country's people. So Okii (Japanese) would be smaller than Big (British accent) would be smaller than Big (American southern accent).