Get Your Shit Together

Friday – Sometimes you reach a point where your solution to the problem at hand has become so complex you can no longer wrap your head around it.  The solution is always to take a deep breath, review your encapsulation, refactor, and simplify your interface.

“Well, no, not exactly.  It’s a complicated case, Maude.   Lotta ins.   Lotta outs.  And a lotta strands to keep in my head, man.  Lotta strands in old Duder’s–”

Shot pool with new officemate J – he’s good but inconsistent, and we were almost perfectly matched.

Had a massage from a powerfully-built Swedish woman.  Came out feeling like an old man.  Sure is nice to be able to roll my neck around and not hear a lot of pops and clicks, though..

Rounded up a poker table for Friday night.  D gave me a ride up to R’s place, where J and the other R were waiting.  B and his friend P came by.  I had a feeling it was going to come down to me and D in the end, not to sound cocky, but because we were the only two playing actual poker.  And low and behold we did, and I walked about 30 bucks richer.  Nice.  D stopped in after we got back to the hill for a beer and a blunt.  Smart kid.

Saturday I helped my mom and Jay move.  Their new house is in Magnolia, so hmmm…  Very 50’s, but then again so was Mum’s last house before they re-everything’ed everything.  Certainly a nice piece of land in a nice neighborhood.  Good view, good floors.  Greek for dinner.  I still don’t get lamb.  Mum and I went for coffee and chocolates afterwards, which was nice.  Came home and stayed home, instead of getting shitty drunk as planned.

Today, I slept until noon, but I was having such a wonderful dream I stayed back for a while longer, well worth it.  Was supposed to see J for an evening date tonight, but she came back late and tired, which I foresaw and understand.  Can’t shake the suspicion that she is going to end it soon, though.  Probably just paranoia..  and I had just come up with a good nickname.

Watching “Role Models” and eating a manly dinner:

Real men make their own potato chips.