Saturday, June 24, 2006

12:33 AM - 12:58 AM
I'm bored as hell. I'm also at my dad's. The two kinda go together more often than not. Blehh...

I'm using a laptop. It has dialup. They have wireless internet in the house, and the compy upstairs uses it. It's in my dad's room, which is so full of smoke that walking in there gives me a headache, so I obviously don't use that computer.

Now, you might be wondering why I'm using dialup when there's wireless internet in the house. It's because I'm not familiar with the type of wireless thingy they have, and my dad and Jani are far too "busy" to do anything about it. I mean... She uses this compy too. So it would be in her interests to get the fuck away from AOL and get this thing on broadband or whatever the hell they call it.

I could be playing video games right now. Unfortunately, I don't have a setup here like I have at home. By which I mean the laptop isn't in the same room as the TV, so I can't be on the lappy and play video games.

"But Tom, laptops are portable! Why can't you just take it into the other room?"

Because the fucking cord that attaches the lappy to the phone jack thing isn't nearly long enough.

I don't want to leave the compy for two reasons:
One, someone might actually come online, thus I will no longer be bored.
Two, I don't want to stop listening to this music. Ordinarily I wouldn't care, because I usually listen to whatever music is in the game (music is a very important part of gaming for me). But the music in Harvest Moon gets old really fast, and I'd rather listen to the stuff I have on here. Bleh.

There's nothing to do. I don't have any books to read, there's no way anything more would have fit in my backpack, which I pack in for coming over here. Can't play videogames, can't read, nothing to do on compy... Well, crap.

I find it funny that I've written such a long post, and it consists entirely of me detailing the reasons why I'm bored, and the reasons why I can't do anything else. It seems that I post a lot more when I'm over here. It's probably the boredom.

So... I hope all you people have a nice weekend.. or something.

Do you ever notice how pointless some of our formalities are? People see each other on the street, total strangers, and feel the need to say "good morning" or something. That kind of stuff is fine, it's, you know, nice. But the people that you don't know that ask how you are or whatever? What the hell is up with that? It's always the same conversation:

"How are you?"
"Good, how are you?"
"Good!"

Then they part ways. What's the point in asking "how are you" if you never expect an actual response? And I find that people do this with acquantinces as well as total strangers. I guess it's usually the way a conversation starts. Or something. But it's stupid and pointless, because they don't expect a response from you other than "good" or "fine" or whatever.

When I ask my friends how they are, I actually want to know how they're feeling. It's not some thinly veiled attempt to look like a nice guy. And I assume that when they ask me, that they generally want to know. If I'm not feeling well, I'll tell em. I don't just say "good" and move on. Blech.

And these people that don't care how you feel and ask anyway... what do they gain from this? It's not being nice, because they don't care. If you're walking by someone and he asks how you are, if you reply, "Oh, I'm terrible, I just found out I have testicular cancer!" do you think that they'll actually stop to talk to you? Hell no! Most likely this person would be a little disoriented, clearly not having anticipated a non-robotic answer to his question.

I'm socially awkward with anyone not in my group of close friends as it is, I don't need these people that don't care about me or my problems inquiring about them. It's just so pointless! Why did this start happening? What's up with that? Bleh.

Well, I think I've said quite enough for now. You know you're bored when you start ranting about stuff like that. I'm gonna go.. check my friends' blogs again... even though I know that they haven't updated them since a half hour ago... I'm soooo pathetic... meh.
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