I've had a good couple of weeks. The 15th was my birthday. That night I went out to the Outback Steakhouse with eskil, Arlo, uzi, jlbec, Amy, Tracy and yosh. Dinner was fun. Ate too much cow. Drank too much beer. Afterwards we stumbled across the road to the Peppermill. I love that place. People began feeding me drinks. I had a pink squirrel (after hearing about it from robey), two Zombies and another drink - possibly an apple martini, though possibly not. Much of the night was blurry. Eskil and I were both very very drunk. Joel and Amy were very kind to give us a lift home and put up with our drunkennes, though I'm sure it was amusing to them at some level. I was reminded again that I need to make an occasion for Amy to mix lots of cocktails because the has both the enthusiasm and the training for it :-)

That week I ended up feeling pretty depressed about my life. I don't think it was the "I'm getting old" depression or anything. Seeing my friend Bec from Perth cheered me up a lot. She stayed at my place from Thursday to Saturday. It was good to catch up, talk about old times, find out what people are up to. She is teaching English in Tokyo and had stories about living there. It sounds like a facinating place to live for a while but I have the feeling that it would annoy me for a lot fo the reasons that San Francisco does (ie: too crowded and uptight and too obsessed with work). I would like to live in Japan at some point but I should probably move somewhere else between now and then.

On Saturday night Dan had a party. It was sort of a birthday party for his neighbour Amy, but it was mostly just a party. I had a really great time. Dan's roommate Cyrus his a DJ and so are some of their neighbours. We drank and danced till about 4 in the morning. Then we went next door where one of their neighbours has an awesome little studio set up. I would have liked to go to the Danger party that night, but I was already overbooked. We crashed on Dan's floor and in the morning BARTed back from Oakland to San Francisco and went to the Kilowatt for a beer on the way home.

Last night I went out to dinner with raph, chema, yosh and nullity for Ethiopian in San Jose. Raph and Chema are in town for the OSDN printing conference. It was good to catch up with them both - and I hadn't seen Seth for quite a while either. Then I caught the train up to the city, taxi-ed home, dropped my crap off, changed my shirt and taxi-ed back down to Popscene. Dan was there and so was Molly (a girl I met at Dan's party). It was the regular popscene crowd (fun) and the regular popscene music (fun, too much Morrissey).

Who knows what the weekend will bring...