There were so many plans for last night. Constructive plans.

I dropped Hunter off at the BART station and said good-bye to him for what will be a little more than a week. Although I'm still tempted to come back sooner - it seems crappy that we won't be able to spend any of our marvelous SimParentCompany weeklong holiday together.

I could have driven him to the airport, but this would have been foolhardy for several reasons:

• We live on the East side of the Caldecott Tunnel. That's like a kamikaze mission.
• It's holiday shopping season, so there would have been no making it past the Emeryville exit. Fucking Emeryville and their Ikea.
• Um, there was sort of a 6.5 earthquake down the coast yesterday. Maybe the Bay Bridge ain't the best idea, if you can help it.

So we're both opting for the BART. I leave tomorrow AM. As in, Ass Meridian, or something. Why I always end up on early morning flights is totally beyond me. I'm NOT a morning person.

Especially not when there's a stranger pawing through my underwear with decided interest at a security checkpoint.

@#@#$@#$ Orange Alert!

Anyway. Once I came home, there were many plans:

• Do the laundry. Before my closet becomes a Superfund site.
• Clean the apartment, as best I can.
• Maybe even begin packing.
• Watch my new South Park Season 1 DVD set.

You wanna know what I ACTUALLY did?

I turned up my music on my beloved non-sucky computer speakers, and I danced around the second bedroom, occasionally singing along.

There. There's my secret, exciting life. I run around like a fool to my MP3's. Sometimes I even do situps. Amazing, I know.

It's nice not to have neighbors.

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So apparently Need For Speed on Xbox arrived. Huh. So do I get Doug SimCity 4 or return it and get NFS UG instead?

He does have a laptop, so maybe SimCity would be nice as a take-it-with-you gift. Assuming the laptop runs the game and all. It's a resource hog.

But of course if he doesn't like it I'll feel doubly guilty since I know all the people that made it.

Path of least resistance. He's getting what I've got! Haha!

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I'm actually at home right now. Lazy me. There's no one at work anymore so I'm in no rush. My tasks today:

• Finish my text writing for SimSequel.
• Play the NGage version and report back about whether it's crashing.
• Check on the testers.
• Pick up my playtesting copies of SimSequel. [I'm one of 5 internal people who was picked to playtest, along with a couple of designers and stuff. Maybe I can make a small difference. :)]

Not so bad as a day goes. I just need to get off my ass. It's raining here and I'm not enticed. If it weren't for that picking-up bit I could stay here all day.

In any case, if I don't write again, have a very happy holiday. I'll have my laptop with me this year so that I can post without accidentally stumbling upon Dad and Kyle's porn downloads. Can we say DEAR GOD?!?! What a lovely family we have, really.

Happy Holidays.