I've taken a couple days off from the internet (also because I had a client I was working with/for for the past week); and during my downtime, I also managed to beat Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow 100% again. Far quicker than last time I played it, at least by a good 5 hours. I was far less stingy about my MP consumption, and knew the right spells to use on the right creatures, and got a few good early spells that made excellent standbys for pretty much the whole game (Ghost is so worth the effort. So many undead units weak to holy, you can pretty much beat the whole game with that spell, until you get Valkyrie and Nightmare (dark magic equivalent); but it's cheap and quite strong for an early spell. Killer Mantle renders the remaining creatures laughable, and hitting the wrong ones, outright nightmares).
It seems I also have a steady stream of work for the rest of the week lined up. Hopefully if I can get an outside contact, I can make better use of my income other than junk food and gas money, and maybe rebuild my social life outside the internet. I noticed things have been starting to go stagnant with my routines lately, and what better opportunity than this to get things started? I'm looking towards meeting with an old co-worker from my last job that's about to get laid off from the recent close-out of the local Food Lion. We shared enough common interests; might make a good contact for going out (social gatherings and such). She did, after all, invite me to hang out with her friends a year or 2 ago so I had something to do for that New Year; turned out quite fun, and they were a rather fun bunch. Enjoyed my company, last I recall. I had other things to deal with at the time (while still working there, and coordination was all wonky), so I never really continued things afterwards. With my freelancing, and her likely finding or having found new work, we can probably coordinate things a little easier in the future.
Who knows, maybe later on, when the weather improves later in the year, I might have some people to go surfing with and so on; or at least, be invited to join in some activities outside hitting the local taverns and bars (though drinking will probably still be involved); like, at least checking out a convention, and see what that's all about or something (I think I recall them mentioning going to a Comic-Con or similar-style conventions. Dressed up, and everything). Try some new things, and maybe knock out a few Sitcom-stereotypes ingrained in my subconscious about such events and so on (at least going to test the waters before diving in). Maybe meet somebody that's single and is a good complement to my personality. All important thing is making the first step in this direction to get things started, at least.
In other news, birthday is coming little over 2 weeks from now. Yet another reason to at least get the first stage over with, at least so that I have someone that I can invite, whatever happens by then (no clue what's planned). In any case, I finally found motivation to 'go out'.
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