Posts tagged with "interesting people"

Dinner With Sonas

I had the chance to hang out with Sonas on Wednesday night. He brought over some wine and cig­ars just as a chance to relax. He grad­u­at­ed last month and is look­ing for a job before he looks for a law school. The thing is, he’s not tied down by any­thing at all. His girl­friend is in Seattle, fin­ished her stud­ies and work­ing as a phar­ma­cist, but he has no plans on mov­ing there. He’s per­fect­ly fine with mov­ing back home, out west, or even over­seas to find a job. I have to admire that kind of free­dom, espe­cial­ly since he’s in a rela­tion­ship. There’s a trust there that real­ly goes beyond most of the oth­er rela­tion­ships that I know. We end­ed up order­ing in and hang­ing out on the bal­cony. I can’t relate to him very well because I don’t know much about him, but I can def­i­nite­ly say that he’s an easy per­son for me to talk to, which is a rar­i­ty in itself.

Yesterday I had the chance to hang out with Pat, and just kick back with some Soul Calibur II. We were pret­ty even­ly matched, although I had the upper hand because I actu­al­ly own the game and have a steady char­ac­ter. We’d real­ly learn each oth­ers moves, so it end­ed up being a game of reflex­es and feints, instead of but­ton mash­ing like it is against most peo­ple. He’s the only per­son I know who used to be a hard­core gamer the way I used to be, so it was great to be able to talk about fight­er styles and relate on that lev­el.

A Weekend House-Sitting

Thumbnail: The house
Thumbnail: Spike shakes on my lap
Home theatre

Spent the week­end house sit­ting for my boss (on a trip to watch his daugh­ter per­form in New York) with Trolley, Nick, and two Eric’s. We spent most of the week­end hang­ing out, play­ing some Gamecube, watch­ing movies on the 100″ pro­jec­tion screen, and mak­ing runs to Timmy Ho’s.

My boss and his fam­i­ly has three dogs, two cats, a few tur­tles, and some guinea pigs. One of the dogs, named Spike, is a tiny ter­ri­er but is like a lit­tle light­ning bolt. He’s still a pup, but won’t be get­ting any big­ger than he already is.

The two cats, Boots and Puffy, are well behaved and friend­ly.

I got the chance to hang out with Eric, the one who’s not Trolley’s broth­er. He can appre­ci­ate a glass of Appleton Estate as much as a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, as much as a well designed com­put­er game. And I mean real­ly appre­ci­ate, as a per­son who almost com­plete­ly under­stands what he likes, instead of the super­fi­cial tastes that so many have nowa­days. I can light up with him, talk to him on an unbe­liev­able num­ber of lev­els, play games with him, or just hang out. He rarely speaks, but when he does his speech has weight, it has mean­ing with so much insight. I hope to hang out with him some more if he does­n’t go back home to Toronto. There should be more Eric’s in the world.

Bus Buddy

Met some­one on the bus back who has some odd coin­ci­dences with me. Both of us are Scorpios, and read­ing books writ­ten by authors who won Nobel Prizes in Literature with­in two years of each oth­er. The per­son who start­ed at her work around the same time I start­ed at my work end­ed up being the per­son I replaced at my cur­rent job. Our fathers also both went through their midlife crises in the last two years. Both bought Japanese motor­cy­cles, then bought Porches. Both were Boxters and sil­ver.

A Comfortable Fellow

I met one of the coolest, most out­spo­ken peo­ple the oth­er day. He was a Chinese man, I’m guess­ing in his ear­ly 60’s, who was an asso­ciate of my uncle’s. Somehow, he kept thank­ing my uncle for favours with­out mak­ing things awk­ward (I’ve always been a ter­ri­ble thanker, which is part of the rea­son I’m hes­i­tant in receiv­ing gifts). He spoke with a boom­ing voice, and used English expres­sions mixed in with his Cantonese dia­logue, the way Russians would use French in the 1800’s.