I really planned for more exciting updates, I wanted to show you some dazzling pictorials of cooking with liquid nitrogen and fun things to do in the kitchen with CO2, but frankly I'm stuck waiting on a few more materials, and until they come, the fun chemistry extravaganza will just have to wait. In the meantime, I want to assure you that I am happy and healthy, and most importantly, that I am not sitting still.
Maybe I woke up a few mornings in a row, fairly sleepless due to the 35th Street construction crew working all night in Manhattan, seeing the Empire State Building outside my hotel window, but I can't give a ton of details about that yet, either.
Maybe I put new Michelin Pilot Sport PS2's on the S2000 and enjoyed some amazing rides, changing gears every second, utterly unable to break the traction on the new tires, after having gone all the way to Jacksonville, intent on purchasing a Lotus Elise, only to decide that the once-car-of-my-dreams is just too small. That's life.
OMG, I photographed it! Someone call Homeland Security.
Maybe I tried Grand Theft Auto IV and was underwhelmed by the slow gameplay and low framerate, but have had to mostly keep quiet about that because everyone else was too busy proclaiming it to be the greatest game since Donkey Kong. History will absolve me, once the hysteria dies down.
Maybe I've been learning and applying new web programming techniques at work, making new, more immersive browser-based applications as a result of increasing pressure to utilize an ever-expanding bag of tricks, to hit always-moving targets and deadlines that weren't set with my input, but the results are astounding.
And maybe most days are pretty normal, I put in my 10-12 hours and do my best to decompress for half an hour or so before sleeping, so I can get up 5 hours later to exercise and do it all again until a weekend dawns, because I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the savings (open a restaurant? buy another house?), I only know that I'd love the opportunity, whatever it will be, and nobody else will make it happen for me.
And maybe if you think you understand how it feels, this entry is for you.
-Chris