Posting from away

Keeping my promise so far. Hanging out with friends, had to ask to use her laptop so I could post to my blog. My other friend chuckled to himself and sang out that so loved personality descriptive "nerd".

I'd like to point out that he is in the kitchen right now unwrapping and studying articulated figures from the GI Joe series. (He bought one because it had a blinky thing with it, and noted that GI Joe was never this cool when he was a kid.)

So I think we're both well within the nerd descriptive here, just a different approach.

These are some of my best friends. We joke, and pick on each other, and most of the time when we get together it is simply to hang out. We don't really go to shows, or out to fancy restaurants (that's partly finance related), we don't need a plan for what to do. Many times we do things based around entertaining their child. Which ends up being pretty fun for me too. I need excuses to act like I'm 7, or younger.

While it's nice to have friends you can go out and act grown up with (drink some beer or wine, have conversations about politics and the world), it is equally as important to have those people who you can hang out with and be nerds. Poetry nerd, action figure nerd, english language nerd, gaming nerd, bad/tacky humor nerd, all of the above.

I wouldn't call it the true test of friendship, but when you can just sit in the same room and not feel pressure to make conversation you know you have something great. It's like going to see my mom on Sundays. In the warm weather we will simply sit on the back porch and drink tea. We may not even talk, or we may find something to complain about.

Not everyone finds satisfaction in this; the sitting on the stoop mentality. Watching the world go by, wondering about the neighbors. It becomes a meditation. It allows my mind to clear, to stop coming up with some sort of comment on anything and everything. Not every moment needs that MST3K running commentary. (Though it sure does make for some good laughs.)

Well, this has been what I'll term a crappy, navel gazing post. Lots o' lint, not much else.

However, I've posted for the day and have stayed true to the goal for THREE DAYS now. A true accomplishment for me. It took me YEARS to get into the habit of flossing my teeth on a daily basis. This writing thing is probably going to take a whole lot longer.