Hindsight

May 10th.

Jon told me the apartment hadn’t changed all that much. When I went inside, a few pieces of furniture from the bedroom were moved out by the kitchen. Otherwise the place was almost exactly the same. The only new addition was that the place smelled like cigarettes.

It was just slightly emotional being back in the place that was my home for a year. We ate Hokka Hokka Tei bentos while watching some Japanese TV…

I’ve been unemployed for three months now. In May I travelled in order to catch some inspiration and visit old friends. I still have more pictures to post from that time but I wanted to break the silence for now and throw out more recent happenings.

PowerMac G5

Just before I left Japan I decided to take a plunge and purchase a Dual 2.0ghz PowerMac G5 and Final Cut Studio. This was not cheap at all. In fact, it plunked one of my credit cards so hard that its bank actually increased my interest rate, which leads me to the following…

eBay

I’ve sold just about any big item or item of non-value, non-sympathy out there to more appreciative (and paying) bidders. I am actually able to make some extra cash right now as well. Apparently, I’ve been on eBay for seven years - I started window shopping there when I was still in college.

Exercise

A family friend’s son is staying with us and he had the same mindset about jogging. We started about six or seven weeks ago. At first, we ran 4-5 days of the week for about 20 minutes with a five minute break in between. But our bodies weren’t getting enough rest. Now, we run three times a week. In total we’ve definitely run over 50 some odd miles total, and my blood pressure is 103/66. Can’t say that Wal Mart’s machine will be accurate but if my friend had a 145/105 reading and is on medication, I’ll believe my number.

Work Search
It’s starting to take its mental toll on me…being home that is and not having a job. I’ve been searching on craigslist in their LA and Orange County sections… locales to me. Out of the many resumes I’ve sent, I went to one interview. It didn’t seem a fit to me and I was under-qualified. I keep searching for something that I can be happy with.

Projects

My next video is 80 percent complete and holding still. I need to shoot the establishing scenes soon - this has been a problem due to my friend’s scheduling difficulties. I want to get it done soon so that I can continue smoothly on my short reel.. an experiment with Apple’s “Motion” software.

I also just paid for ecto prior to making this post. It’s worth 18 bucks to update multiple blogs under one tool. That and thus far the updates seem constant. This may have well been the first time I’ve paid for a small piece of weblogging software, and so far I’m happy.

I’m here. But I’ve been trying to keep myself busy as well… Learning software (more on that in the future), selling things, keeping mentally busy and physically fit to some degree.

I have no regrets with my path thus far, I am just hoping that there is a happy ending to this chapter in my life.