That's roughly how far it is from my house to Office Depot. 3 years ago, my brother and I would frequently walk there, just for fun. Now that almost never happens. And it was making me terribly sad. Matter of fact, it had been almost a full two years since the last time we made that jaunt. I've asked him several times, but he always complains "it will make my back hurt", "I don't feel like it", "I'm not in my prime". Today, he's at Squiggs' house, and I have no DSL, so I decided to clean Motoko, MuggleEater, and my new old server Lumpy (It was Ed, but people kept confusing him with Ed from Cowboy Bebop, so I decided I'd clear up the field.) In any case, I didn't have any spray air or a car to drive out and get some. So I said to myself (outloud nonetheless), "Vap's not here, I'm going to walk there." Threw on my coat and was off. It took me about 45 minutes (I stopped into the bookstore to see if they had The New Tenchi Muyo volume 4) and I bought my spray air. Then I stopped for a sub, and went home. The whole process took me 2 hours. At the end of it, I was glad to be out of the cold, but otherwise still had quite a bit more energy.
What this means to me is that I really need to start doing things without Vap again. Because of all the heck he gave me when we where younger about not spending time with him, I've been working very hard to do stuff with him. But it's clear that sometime he keeps me from doing the things I enjoy. And it's not like I havn't done stuff without him before; my entire life from when I was about 8 to when I was 17 didn't involve him in any way. It was just me, my computer, and time. And most of that didn't have the Internet.
I've grown into the role of social being, but it's something I've had to work to be able to do. By nature, the only person that I need for company is myself and the occasional discussion with a human being, but I only need about 2 hours a week of that. So with everything considered, maybe I should just blow off this whole social thing and get back to the things that make me the happiest... Plus, I could really use the exercise. :)
4 and a half miles, childs play.
Mood: Unsure of where to go with my social life.