Days of Summer >> 7/12/16

1. 7/12/16
1. Windsurfing!
2. Work--a lot of research. Mike tried to show us how to configure a piece of hardware and got bogged down :)
3. Walk at BTC and then dinner with Dan and Stephanie. Mentally taxing b/c many degrees of uncertainty (how should I comport myself? How much do I even care?) and even more when discussing actual things (does the thing matter, compared to the social hospitality quotient of the conversation?) I feel like a morose teenager, flowered too late from an eagerly growing green stem of youth and naivete.
4. That sounds a bit dramatic :D The food was really good. And I recovered real quick just reading a couple chapters of HPMOR. Then I watched Deathnote with the family. Super fun. Almost started The Conversation again (Light of Deathnote is a great character to argue over) but instead, picked up the guitar and started humming along to the few chords I know (Spencer in E Minor). This lightened everything dramatically. Sang along with Dad for a few songs, laughed at the absurdity of Dad’s facebook stream. Parents retired smiling.
5. I stayed up for HPMOR. Read perhaps one of the greatest goofy, complicated, gamified battle scenes ever written (think Ender’s Game or perhaps Canadian Milk Burglar, if you are familiar with this game, which permits players to place a piece only if this leaves some possibility of all players reaching the prizes, resulting in incredible constraints and hilarity).
6. Overrode the annoying objections of my psyche’s babysitter and tuned in to Alex’s Song of the Day playlist for the first time in months. Perfect journal writing-music. And composed this log, sitting outside in the light rain and sweet fresh air under an umbrella.
7. May the joys of this world ever answer thy search and light thy path, and a very good night!