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That was a nice walk. I discovered to my surprise that Micro Center sells console systems and games. I didn't buy any of that, but I noted for the first time the relative prices of the different systems; surprised to see that the PS2 is fully twice the price of the Game Cube.

Last year I swore to myself I'd get a modern video game system because it is a fine thing to have video games. I will give myself a crash course on the systems' relative merits and make my choice soon, I suppose. Friends who know the sorts of games I like -- and the games I like too much -- are welcome to weigh in. My personal exposure to these systems is very slight, limited to playing with a local friend's GC a few times. Super Monkey Ball! (I have actually had the most exposure to the now-defunct Sega Dreamcast.)

Speaking of crash courses, I forgot to note that seeing short films of varying quality made me want to make movies, because I'm so sure I can do better than that. Do I know the first thing about cinematography? Hey: I'm surprised I spelled it correctly, just now. Do you know anything about this? Any pointers you can offer me? Books? Seriously.

Add this to the collection of things I want to do, I will do, if only I get the creative spark for it. But the tinder lies cold, cold while I continue to sit in my room (or in my cube) and natter away to myself. Generally I need to smellllllll the godforsaken FLOWERS. I have been on a hectic rush-rush go-go since putting the book down in November and... this is not the way to happiness. Rush-rush begets more rush-rush, more than it solves things.

If you don't count my recent unemployed period (and I don't), I haven't had a vacation in... in... I don't think I have taken once since the time I visited

leahleaf &c. in 1999. Maybe you can count summer 2000, when

daerr and I went to the O'Reilly open source convention in CA (which unexpectedly served as the springboard into my move to Massachusetts), and spent several extra days nosing around the west coast, visited

meeshdoublel and

zyxwvut, and generally did nothing work-related. So, coming up on three years since my last real vacation. Uh-huh. I don't think this has been very good for me.