Pilot's Log

Remember that dream I told you about where I came home from an errand and the house is suddenly filled with strangers who have to stay with me and my folks?

It hasn't happened yet, but my parents invited some relatives of our neighbor (the one in the hospital after suffering a stroke last week) to stay at our place. They were allegedly scheduled to arrive today, but they haven't yet, and I don't know if they'll really take us up on the offer. As a result, I can't start on any of my projects, and I'm afraid if I tried to start writing again either I'd get messed up by the guests or something worse.

Look, I love my parents. There are times I have to do things for them and I don't mind that. But I've been living in this house TEN YEARS now, and from Day 1 I realized that it would never be a home for me, as I don't have any say in what goes on here. I hate that I can't live on my own. I hate that I have no friends here to talk to. I hate the intrusions on my privacy that my folks feel entitled to make. I hate being almost forty years old and still being treated like a child every so often.

I don't know what I want anymore. GenCon proved that I'm a mundane. It also showed me how The Other Half lives, and I don't envy them. What it didn't show me, was a Way Out.

What do I dread? Another twenty years of living this way.

FP

At this time tomorrow I'll be on my way to Indianapolis for GenCon.

I doubt I'll have Internet access at any time during the five or six days I'll be gone, but who knows?

Hey.

On a forum I belong to, a couple of my RL buddies were trying to talk me into going with them to GenCon in Indianapolis in August. I said, "No tengo dinero"...and remembered where I learned that phrase.

For you younger folks, there was a hit song in Europe by that title by a New Wave band named Righeira. I saw the music video to that on the syndicated TV show Night Flight. My curiosity reawakened, I did a Google, and came upon a YouTube of the video itself. The song is pretty catchy, and the video is a neat piece of rotoscoping and animation. Makes me wonder if there are any available DVDs with the video included.

Still, "no tengo dinero". *shrug*

FP

PS: Lyrics courtest of www.lyricsandsongs.com...

REFRAIN: No tengo dinero, wo
No tengo dinero, no, no, no, no
No tengo dinero, wo
No tengo dinero, no, no, no, no

FIRST VERSE: Los modernos lujos viven aquí
En el lugar más alto de mi ciudad
Se nutren de imágenes y de relais
Yo quisiera estar ahí más

REFRAIN

SECOND VERSE: Los nuevos italianos crean aquí
Impávidos y fieros de la velocidad
Neo psichico es el sintético edén
Yo quisiera estar ahí más

REFRAIN

BRIDGE: Neo psichico
Besado de una dea tu eres
Patria de estos te crean
Neo psichico
Besado de una dea tu eres
Patria de estos te crean

REFRAIN, REFRAIN