Happy 4th

Now go make the Bush administration happy and spend some money. Ya know, to "boost our economy."

I would recommend the $5 game sale at Circuit City going on today, for anyone who's reading this on the 4th itself. Lots and lots of earlier GBA, PS2, and Gamecube games (including some cult-classics like ICO and most 2K4 sports games) and a relatively small and unworthy collection of Xbox games are all, you guessed it, five big ones.

I'm headed to Oklahoma for the day to "celebrate" my grandfather's 4th-of-July birthday, but it's only a day trip, so I'll be home later tonight (~10:00) for any festivities going on.

Role models

Drew's secret xanga has a post with a lot of thoughts on the stupid things we do in high school in pursuit of whatever the hell it was we thought we were pursuing. But it ends on a good note: had he not gone through all of that, he wouldn't know one person whom he considers a really valuable friend.

That reminded me of some thoughts that had been bouncing around my head lately. There are only a handful of people that I really consider people I look up to. The vast majority of my friends and peers are my equals, in my mind; no better, no worse. But every now and again I'll get myself into a dire situation and ask, "What would [insert name of friend or family member here] do?" And that gives me some direction as to the kind of person I want to be.

So, role-models-who-shan't-be-named-but-few-of-you-are-my-readers-anyway, thanks. And ya know what? I miss the vast majority of you because I don't see most of you often enough. Either you're in Austin, or New York, or just across Fort Worth but way too busy to see me, but it's occurred to me that I've been missing out on you guys for some time now, so I'm setting out to fix that.