I decided to wear ties again for a while.
I have eleven shirts, six pairs of pants and four jackets. In the absence of a fifth jacket, I wear the same jacket two days in a row during the weekend. These quantities (11, 6, 5) share no denominators. If I fix the order of my clothes and, each day, wear the next of each item, I can wear a unique outfit every day (excluding the duplicate jackets on weekends) for 330 days.
Today I made soymilk and rice balls.
The soymilk was satisfactory, given my inexperience, but I’m hoping to improve. It took a few hours and seventy cents of soybeans to make about a gallon. Next time I will probably use less water, as it turned out a bit thin. The flavor ended up ok, although I had to use more salt and sugar than I expected (about two teaspoons of salt and nearly four tablespoons of sugar for the gallon).
I knocked my glasses off at work last week. The frames broke on the cement floor of the warehouse. The one lens that fell out was not scratched, and I taped it back in temporarily. Over the weekend I glued the broken frame together. It wasn’t a perfect job; the lens was loose so I cut a piece of rubber band to fill up the space. I colored over the rubber band and the dried glue with a black permanent marker, and the repair isn’t noticeable without a close look.
Last weekend I was at the wedding of a high school friend. This is the third good high school friend of mine to get married. I rode a bus for a few hours and met up with another friend to drive the remaining couple hours to the wedding. There were awkward moments during the visit, but I still enjoyed it.
This weekend I finally clipped my hair short. I had been trimming the sides of my haircut as well as I could do myself with a pair of scissors.
February: Still on vacation. I took the bus to visit a friend from high school. That was a good time. I hadn’t had a conversation about my high school years in a long time. The visit prompted me to try reconnecting with more people I haven’t contacted in years, and the internet has plenty of tools to facilitate that.
March: I flew to the west coast to visit some friends from college.
December: I continued working at the board game publisher. During the holidays, my hosts left the state for several days. I had a nice time alone, watching the house. Although I made tentative plans to return home, they fell through, and I stayed where I was all month.
January: Still working all the time, Monday through Friday. Sometime during this or the last month I accepted a permanent, salaried, full-time position.
Early this month I went to see a wedding. There was an outer space theme. I had a good time, although I knew very few people attending. I also spent a good time with my brother. I met some of his new and old acquaintances, all of whom were very nice. We rode bikes on one of the many bike paths, and I was disappointed by my low endurance.
Shortly after getting back for that trip, I left to spend a few months living and working in the upper midwest.
I feel like I’ve been busy lately. I’ve been going to work again, I started trying to learn piano, I went with a group of friends back to my old college town this weekend, then got back and immediately went camping with a different group of friends.
Work was unexpected. I was looking forward to it when I found out, but it turns out that this project is very very dull.
I finally came home last weekend. Before that i had been staying with some college friends. While I was there they moved into a house they just bought, so I got to help out with that and see the new house. They, of course, were working most of the time, so I spent a lot of my daytime watching tv shows on dvd. When everyone was home, we played board games and similar, as usual.
I just spent the last couple weeks back in my hometown. I saw some friends that I hadn’t seen since the last time I came home, and some that I hadn’t seen for longer.
Some of us went golfing one day. I had never golfed before, actually. It was almost a really hot day, but the breeze picked up and the clouds came out, so it wasn’t bad at all.