sigh. shit. my lovely matsuda frames broke today. i ticced really hard, and my glasses broke right in the nose bridge. so i ate lunch with alan without my glasses, but luckily i had my prescription oakley's in my car so i could drive home and get my spare pair of glasses.
i've had these matsuda's for seven years. they were symbolic of my breakup with k2. right after we split, i got these specs as a symbol for a new look and a new life. so now i have to make an appointment to see my optometrist and get a new pair of glasses. i'm sort of hesitant to get plastic frames again because they're more fragile, but i really do like the look. hm. we'll see. fuck this tourette's. FUCK IT I SAY!
so tonight's the auto show. i can't say i'm excited, because i'm not into cars, and i'm not in the market to buy a new car. i love my V6 accord, and i'll drive it until it dies. i'm definitely going for the company; there's over a dozen people going. but i wonder what i'll do at the show. i bet it'll get boring after about 15 minutes. oh well.
so i'm in love with this song i've heard on the radio a few times. i did a lyrics search on google, and it turns out it's by the dixie chicks. it's called "not ready to make nice," and it's very pretty in places. there's also some angry spots, too, which provide a wonderful, passionate juxtaposition. i never thought i would like a dixie chicks song, though. maybe i'll look for it on itunes.
i had dinner with mike last night at ohana hawaiian bbq. i think i've realized that i don't like hawaiian food. but aside from that, we chatted for a while. i haven't talked one-on-one with mike in a long time, so it was nice and refreshing to do that. like i've said before, i am forever grateful to mike for inviting me to bowling nights and introducing me to the bowling gang. without them, my weekends would be dreadfully boring. i hang out with them a lot, and they're my normal crowd nowadays.
some of my friends are interviewing at this one promising company. sometimes i wonder if i should have gone the software route instead of hardware. software seems much more flexible. plus, hardware companies have a much tougher path to make money; tools, fabrication costs, etc. cost a lot of $$$. i mean, if you take it extremes, a single person can sit in his home and churn out a piece of software and sell it, whereas it's hard for one to write a hardware core and do the same thing.
i should be happy that i haven't been screwed over too much in my past relationships. i have a friend who's sort of wary of getting too involved in new relationships because of stuff that's happened in the past. it's hard for that person to commit fully, and i think that's pretty sad. i guess the older we get and the more relationships we've gone through, the more chance that there is a lot of emotional baggage.
my friend used a phrase, "chicken or the ham," which i think came from _grey's anatomy_. basically, the chicken only brings the eggs to breakfast, so the chicken is "involved." but the pig has to die to bring the ham, so the pig is "committed." i found that to be an interesting analogy for the participants in a relationship.
ok. time for my 5pm smoke, and i am outta here. have a great weekend folks! for those in the bay area, don't freeze! bundle up!