Keeping busy

The last 5 days have been pretty decent on all counts! I spent the weekend relaxing and hanging out with friends. On Saturday I went out to the breeders house where I adopted Skype so I could hang out with them and Skype could romp with his family. He had a blast (I can imagine having 10 times your weight in pit bulls to play with would be fun from his perspective) and got quite worn out in the process. After that I went over to a co-workers house for a while for a pre-thanksgiving celebration. She announced her engagement and everyone seemed to have a good time. After that I ended up going over to my friend Scott's house. He's had a couple of bad things happen to him recently and I wanted to just go hang out and be there for him. I'm hoping things start to look up for him as he really is a nice guy and deserves the best in life.

Sunday was a very lazy day for me. Skype and I chilled out most of the day and just watched movies. In the afternoon we took a long walk and got some of the kinks out of Skype's muscles. He's been growing fast and getting him enough exercise is becoming more and more important to his health. It's amazing how much he grows, every once in a while I come home from work and swear that he's grown while I was gone.

Monday brought some unexpected expenses. On Saturday while I was out at Q's house one of his friends noticed that my tires were very worn. One of them had about a quarter of an inch of the radial showing and as it was explained to me I am quite fortunate that I had not had it blow out already. During work on Monday I took my car to Discount Tires and got four new tires to replace my old ones. The guy there was amazed that I was still driving on that tire and surprised that I had been able to drive it to the shop. $300 later I had my new tires on the car and a renewed feeling of security. The new tires did help my handling a little bit, but it's still a sedan - god I want a sporty car. It's very frustrating to wait for a new one, but I'm going to make myself wait until I'm 25 so that my insurance will go down before I go running out to buy a new car.

Aside from that excitement this has been a fairly mundane week. I've made a couple of deals at work and am continuing to hack away at Star Ocean: Till the End of Time when I get a few moments. Tonight I might have my first date in a while - not sure on the timing, but we will see.