jr conlin's ink stained banana

i think i'm somewhat low on the "fun" part of my life lately.

It's a busy time, and a lot is going on, but for various reasons, not a lot of joy seems to be creeping in from the edges. Building things generally makes me happy and there's quite a lot of things i need/want to build in the after hours. i'm even making some headway on them. The problem is that when i get home, i'm generally tired of thinking and not really up on the idea of spending effort working on things more complicated than clicking on links on reddit.

i'd mess around with new things, except that most of the "new stuff" really isn't that interesting. Take the Chrome OS, which is basically a bootable browser pointed toward Google. Uhm. Thanks? But i already have an iTouch. Sorry, but what's the major difference between this and a reasonably cheap laptop running Ubuntu? Oh, right! The fact that said laptop will most likely continue to work after my gmail account is hacked or i can't get an open 802.11n signal at 30,000 feet or eighty four miles east of Scranton.

Likewise, there's the new Budda Phone which looks promising, except for the fact that it's still freaking expensive ($600 unlocked, or close to $3000 on the 2 year plan, now with extra early termination pain), plus the ever elusive "better phone" just beyond the horizon. Plus, it's just a freaking phone, and it's not like your going to be able to easily tether it to your ChromeOS box when your outside Scranton anyway.

i'd write something for NaNoWriMo, but everything i tried so far has been beyond horrible. i'm half tempted to release 250 first pages and claim it as a collection of short stories. Plus, it's not like i've been writing terribly good posts here, so i've less confidence i'd put together something that wouldn't be used to torture future prisoners of war.

i think i need to do some random act of fun. Something random, possibly damaging, as well as something i may fear pictures appearing on the Internet. Something i will look back upon and try to come up with an alibi.

i'm not quite sure i know what it will be.

But i know it'll be fun.