楽観主義者

The above kanji is pronounced "rakkan shugisha", which means "optimistic person". No reason to be optimistic in particular, but to quote Simon and Garfunkle, I'm "feelin' groovy".

Got to hang out with Jonathan last night for the first time since the new year. Brandon also joined us. Caught the newest by George Romero, and it wasn't too bad. Unrated director's cut, so there was lots of gore. If anyone knows how to do gore, it's Romero. Didn't get to it, but I'm looking forward to catching The Transporter 2. The first one I was tepid toward, because I didn't realize that it was a true action movie. And when I say true action movie, I mean as in they literally wasted no more than 5 minutes on plot, the rest was pure action. Being a plot guy myself, I was let down until I decided that plot simply wasn't what it was supposed to be about. It's just supposed to be about a guy kicking ass. In that endeavor the movie succeeded wonderfully. So I hope for more of the same from #2.

Today was spent entirely on two service calls. The first was to a local non-profit, and the second was to the director of the non-profit's home, so it really felt like one big call. Kinda cool in a way. Especially since it wasn't just sitting in front of AVG and Ad-Aware all day. I got to dig through a pile of donated computer parts, figure out what was what, get it together, set it up, network 'em, figure out who should get the newer printer and who should get the printer they were now losing... it was a fun change of pace.

Got some good comments from a pseudo-relative who worked there; I hadn't been by since Christmas and I got some complements on my apperance, which felt quite nice. It's good to know others can see the changes, even if I can't. Still have to keep my nose to the grindstone of course. I've got a long way to go.

Nothing new to report on the aquarium, except that some internal fears about my new leather coral may be unfounded. I thought it didn't look as healthy after I added it to the tank, but I think it's just the angle that it was placed on the rock; Sort of gave it a droopy appearence. No big deal.

Groovin' out.