Lots of Monkeys

I have a large carboard banker’s box.  Within this box are hand written journals that I’ve kept since high school.  I haven’t written in a journal consistently over the last couple of years, and I think that’s a great loss on my part.

Without knowing where I’ve been, how can I see how far I’ve come?

Reading through them is often a bittersweet experience.  Especially during the high school years (Season One) where everything was melodramatic, characters were really shallow and character development took years.

But they are inspiring, and I’ll try to use some of them in the coming posts.

If I have to talk about Spa World, I have to talk about nudity.  This is because nudity, while not the focus of the facility, is a crucial, unavoidable detail of the experience of Spa World.

Spa World is a Korean style bath house facility, and if you go, you will get naked.

And it is awesome.

I had a great time.  I didn’t think I was going to have a great time, I had my own cultural conditioning, hangups and body issues to overcome.  But it was the last chance to hang out with a friend who was leaving the country and I wasn’t going to miss out on seeing her before she left.

When I first got to Spa World, I wondered if we had come to the right place.  It’s two mirrored doors in a strip mall with a garish “SPA WORLD” sign hung up on the front of the facility.  Once I stepped inside, it was a different story altogether.  It is fancy.  No lie.  I was greeted by a long hallway that led to rows of small wooden lockers.  On the other side of a counter that had giant rocks in it, friendly hostesses greeted us in both English and Korean.

I looked outside at the black tarmac of the parking lot, and looked back in towards the dark wood and marble floors.  I walked towards the counter, in towards the spa, and left an entire culture on the other side of the door. Continue reading →

Finished inFamous and looking forward to a sequel.  I guess that’s pretty high praise in and of itself.  Played it through twice, even.  Finished all of the side missions on my first run through and then just finished the storyline on my second run as a good guy.

The nice thing is that it lets you sandbox once the game is over.

You can go through Empire City and get all of the things you missed because you were too busy trying to get through the storyline.

Overall, a lot of fun, and fairly compelling.