I believe I missed the part of my life where I search for things that I enjoy. I spent it playing video games and MUDing and whatnot. Not that those things aren’t fun (oh they are) but one should not spend ones life in from of the TV. If anything Dr Who (ironically of course, it being a tv show) has taught me that. It is why I am amused when I get criticised by some for wanting to go teach in Japan for crap money. Not everything in this world is about money, or Capitalistic Success.

Life for me, is about being happy. However the things I used to enjoy are not so enjoyable anymore. Gentoo, Video Games, Anime, they are mostly single person activities. Silicon Valley holds enough Gentoo Devs to have meetups and BBQ and whatnot. But for many other devs you can’t just call up someone and go to the pub (and I used to live in Michigan, where that is definately true). I do meet up with devs in the Silicon Valley area, even after my retirement. They are good people.

I spent my weekend watching Dr. Who, all 2 seasons of it. It was an enjoyable waste of time as it is a pretty good show. However it is also a depressing waste of time. It says ‘You have nothing better to do than watch 26 episodes of Dr Who’. This is more or less true. I did a few other things this weekend, but the words I would choose would be ‘nothing of consequence’.

My quest for the next set of weeks and months is to try out new things (yay being able to afford to do things), social activities and whatnot. Maybe there is something better out there besides anime and video games, and maybe not. But it would be stupid not to spend time looking, aiming ever upwards, not being content with what one has, but looking toward the future at what could be.