The office of births, deaths and marriages

A lot has changed in my life over the last few months. Most notable to me anyway, is that I have moved into my own apartment. Friends have announced they are getting married (in countries 10+ hours away by plane), other friends have encountered pretty horrible and debilitating sickness. Things feel like they are spreading out in some ways - people moving further apart, life events seem to have more room to breathe. It's strange to me because my whole life I have had a fairly strong sense of purpose and direction, but I found myself sitting on the couch the other night not really knowing what to do next.

It's certainly not the worst predicament you could find yourself in - I'm doing ok, am comfortable and am grateful for that. It's just at odds with how I have been for the first 35 years. I am comfortable with just sailing along using only the breeze to guide me for a bit. Lets see what happens.

Throughout all the moving and changing social climate and babies I have been playing Yakuza 4 and am now convinced that it is an amazingly underrated and brilliant masterpiece. I plan to write something in-depth on it soon, so I wont go on and on about it here, but the sheer scale of the game is astounding. It has been the only real constant in my life of late - even work is evolving day by day.

One of the many upsides (and there are plenty of downsides) to having my own place now is that my work desk is out of my room and in the living area, placed in a way that will encourage me to start writing, creating, recording a lot more. I also seem to have a lot more time on my hands, so we'll see what comes of it.

That's it for now, easing myself back into regular crapping on. Hopefully I'll have interesting things to say about stuff next time.