On Tap for a Rainy Weekend

We have nothing of import planned this weekend! After weekends of symphony or shopping or the in-laws visiting (and FOGCon happening next weekend), we stumbled upon a free weekend! Which is good, because I've been exhausted the last few days. Sleeping until 7:30 might not be considered late to most people, but that's a good 2.5 extra hours of sleep for us.

Added to that, we've finally been given another stretch of lingering rain and cool temperatures. That's actually what we should have gotten a few months previous as a typical San Franciscan winter, but I can't complain (other than my sinuses pounding)...we definitely need the rain to fill up the reservoirs and keep the hills and mountains from catching fire later on in the year.

So! Things I actually do want to do (or must do) this weekend:
--Get haircut (we're doing that soon)
--Food/stuff shopping
--Write out and mail rent check
--Do our taxes (honestly, I usually have them done MUCH earlier, I've just been distracted!)
--Laundry
--Writing/research for Walk in Silence
--Play with new website idea (long-term...more about this in a future post)

On that note, we'll be heading out momentarily (in the rain, natch) to head down to Fillmore so I can get my haircut at SuperCuts, then walking down the block to Japantown for lunch (okonomiyaki, woo!) and shopping (more manga, woo!). Whee, mundane life! :p

Scintilla Bonus: GDMFSOB

I'm generally a down-to-earth, even-tempered guy. I rarely let things bother me, and when they do, I usually just process it somehow, or at most maybe kick a trashcan or something, and move on. You might see me irritated, but rarely do you ever see me downright pissed off.

I will warn you, though...if you *do* see me pissed off? I'm bound to say some pretty harsh things. I might regret them later on, and they might be wrong, but that's what happens. I'll apologize afterwards if it's warranted, of course, but I don't hold back if it reaches a certain level.

There are very few times that I've let fly, though. The one time I said hurtful words was when I had my hours cut from just shy of 40 hours a week down to 10 at the radio station job in 1996. The owner happened to be conservative and religious (she had a major in divinity, so she wasn't just bible-thumping, she knew from where she preached), but I got along with her just fine until she basically told me at the last possible moment that my hours were strictly temporary until she could get someone else to fill in. In a fit of anger I dropped the key to the station on her desk and walked out. That wasn't what pissed me off, though...the crowning achievement was when I tried to apply for unemployment, she'd written a response to that office saying I'd never worked more than 20 hours a week there, and I wouldn't be able to collect.

That afternoon, I was so fucking pissed off at her for screwing me over that I walked into the house saying "You know, xxxx xxxx is a True Fucking Christian." Had she been in the office at the time, I would have said that to her face, no doubt.

Sure, that might sound like nothing, but this is me living with a family of Roman Catholics, and I have a deep respect for religion and spirituality (it's the followers that sometimes test my patience). Saying that was quite against my nature and the least respectable thing I could have said about her. People can piss me off or anger or irritate me, but I let it go--I forgive them for not paying attention or deliberately being hurtful, because it's part of being human. But rarely will I call them on it.

[Of course, talking politics is a different story, and my default with the Conservatives as of late has been "What the fuck is wrong with you??", but that's a different post all together.]

So yeah...if you get me pissed off or angry enough, I won't become physical. Instead I'll keep an even head and say something very hurtful instead.