tuesday's monday

I don't have much to say today — at least, not at the moment. But I feel the need to put a buffer, to create some distance between me and the last post. All weekend I thought about it. It felt like having an open wound that everyone could see. (Not that there are all that many people who read this thing. Although it is odd to check the stats and see how there is a not-insignificant amount of traffic from people just bouncing randomly from the Blogger front page. Especially if you post late at night — folks who are up and surfing around will see the blog as being "recently updated" and click through.) It bothered me that those were the words that were left out here, when I'd finally cooled down enough to feel distance from them.

I had a good weekend. I got to spend a good amount of time with friends, and with Amy. I spent some time working (freelance design and writing), so I didn't feel completely useless. I got to play some games. (RoboRally rules!) and we saw a really good movie (Children of Men).

I also did some painting. No, not like that — some geek painting. Friends Mike & Andrea P were coming over Sunday (to hang out and play RR) and I thought it'd be fun to paint the little figurines that come with the game. I bought the paints and some brushes on Saturday and then thought I should try it out that night — just to make sure the paint took, you understand. Just one figurine. I ended up painting three of the RR figures and one from another game. It made me incredibly relaxed — that feeling you get when you're completely focussed on a task and forget the world around you, and let go of the voice in your head that criticizes and reminds you of other things you should be doing. Geek therapy.

Happily, many of the games I've collected over the past two years have figures that could use painting...