Moment of self-pity for my Saturday:

• My Saturday movie plans were thrown to the wind when the friend I'd hoped to see suddenly skipped town to go skiing.
• My Sunday movie plans were tweaked when another two friends 'thelma-and-louised' to places unknown to get away from the world, leaving only a note saying they'd be back when they were back.
• Another couple friends who said they'd visit and play never showed up, probably figuring they'd see me at the 30th birthday party for another friend at Stanford that evening, the drive for which, sadly, I didn't really feel up for after all of the aforementioned.
• Two other friends let me know they'd rather not spend time with me for a few weeks because, within our 'urban tribe' of four, I had dated two within four months. This is the one that really vexes me, but all involved are bloggers, and so this probably isn't the best place to air frustrations... It suffices to say that, as bloggers, I thought they would be better at communicating feelings. Disillusionment has a bitter taste.
• But then, I wasn't attending my grandfather's funeral, as Dinah was, so things could have been a lot worse.

The upside is that, at least for me, despondency is the mother of industry, and I got a lot of good programming done on Fury, enough, you might note, to warrant a bump in the version number. Yes, Fury is now at version 3.2.

My Sunday turned out a lot better than Saturday. I got pulled out of bed at 9 by Ali (not literally; she called me when she was done with rowing (Rowing at 7am? It's Sunday!) and we got Chai, walked on campus and caught up on each others lives. Going on 22 years, my friendship with Ali is my oldest, and talking life stuff through with her always gives me a good perspective.

Emily, Chris and I went to see Beauty and the Beast in IMAX at the Metreon. God Disney musicals can rock. (Note: Lion King is coming to IMAX on January 1, 2003. What's with the annularized movie releases? Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (okay, biannual), and now Disney IMAX re-releases... Are movies franchises the new holidays? November 17 is 'Harry Potter Day'? Well, for the next six years, anyhow.)

Karen and Crystal (thelma and louise) came back in the afternoon, after a theraputic run down to Gold Country and wine tasting.

Another evening at home, coding, catching up on TiVo, talking to Dinah.