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A Very Social Week
Oct. 8th, 2022 10:12 pmOnce every so often I find that unexpected social events dominate my week leading to a journal entry that is surprisingly devoid of work and commentary relating to what is considered a wide variety of interests on serious matters. Unable to help myself and more of a comment on the quality of the people I associate with, these "social occasions" become a bit of a symposium in their own right. Monday evening, for example, started these with our regular Burning Wheel RPG session led by Justin A., set in The Thirty Year's War, whereupon we explored, in a rather delightful narrative form, the intrigue, law, and social status of the Holy Roman Empire of the 17th century.
The following evening coworker NinjaDan and old friend Eli J., came over for dinner which insightful commentary on matters concerning logic (formal, finite-valued, fuzzy, paraconsistent, etc), category theory, and international politics. A wayward hat required Eli to visit again on Friday evening where we spent many hours expanding even further on these topics, emacs, data types, psychology - the discussion aided by several aristocrat cocktails over the nine-hour discussion. We converse all too rarely and it has been a very long time since we've been in each other's company, so that was quite a wonderful evening.
On Wednesday, I received a surprise message from an even older friend from Perth, John P., who was en route to Brisbane with Sarah Lee P. and Michael D. and was staying at the hotel next door. As both incorrigible nerds from early cyberpunk days, John was very enthusiastic about recent readings from NASA in the Soviet rocket programme from the space age and we have a strong shared interest in early computing technology. Later met up with a mutual friend and neighbour Ju L., and we went to a local French-Vietnamese restaurant and then to The Cloakroom, a quiet bar on a weeknight with especially astounding views (from c150m high) of Melbourne city and Southbank.
On Thursday night, I ventured out to the deepest suburbia, specifically the Victory Lounge at Chadstone, the first time I have set foot in the place. The purpose of this was the annual general meeting and celebration for the BPD Community. It is an issue that remains close to my heart and I have a sizeable write-up on the illness pending. The formal meeting was thankfully swift, followed by excellent speakers, especially international mental-health innovator, Mary O'Hagan, and a rather wonderful artist, poet, and project manager named Kate whom I seemed to have established a new friendship with.
Finally today, in lieu of going to PAX (thousands of pop culture nerds at the Convention Centre, have fun everybody), I caught up with fellow co-worker and biostatistician, Judy, a relatively new friend who, apart from an interest in the sciences is rather new to Melbourne and a keen cyclist. I took the opportunity to give them a bit of a tour around South Warf, Port Melbourne, Westgate Park, and Docklands, all of which were new adventures for them.
And all that is why I'm having a quiet evening at home alone tonight!
The following evening coworker NinjaDan and old friend Eli J., came over for dinner which insightful commentary on matters concerning logic (formal, finite-valued, fuzzy, paraconsistent, etc), category theory, and international politics. A wayward hat required Eli to visit again on Friday evening where we spent many hours expanding even further on these topics, emacs, data types, psychology - the discussion aided by several aristocrat cocktails over the nine-hour discussion. We converse all too rarely and it has been a very long time since we've been in each other's company, so that was quite a wonderful evening.
On Wednesday, I received a surprise message from an even older friend from Perth, John P., who was en route to Brisbane with Sarah Lee P. and Michael D. and was staying at the hotel next door. As both incorrigible nerds from early cyberpunk days, John was very enthusiastic about recent readings from NASA in the Soviet rocket programme from the space age and we have a strong shared interest in early computing technology. Later met up with a mutual friend and neighbour Ju L., and we went to a local French-Vietnamese restaurant and then to The Cloakroom, a quiet bar on a weeknight with especially astounding views (from c150m high) of Melbourne city and Southbank.
On Thursday night, I ventured out to the deepest suburbia, specifically the Victory Lounge at Chadstone, the first time I have set foot in the place. The purpose of this was the annual general meeting and celebration for the BPD Community. It is an issue that remains close to my heart and I have a sizeable write-up on the illness pending. The formal meeting was thankfully swift, followed by excellent speakers, especially international mental-health innovator, Mary O'Hagan, and a rather wonderful artist, poet, and project manager named Kate whom I seemed to have established a new friendship with.
Finally today, in lieu of going to PAX (thousands of pop culture nerds at the Convention Centre, have fun everybody), I caught up with fellow co-worker and biostatistician, Judy, a relatively new friend who, apart from an interest in the sciences is rather new to Melbourne and a keen cyclist. I took the opportunity to give them a bit of a tour around South Warf, Port Melbourne, Westgate Park, and Docklands, all of which were new adventures for them.
And all that is why I'm having a quiet evening at home alone tonight!
