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During that time, I’ve taken some personal time off, but in all of those cases, I took time off to attend weddings in faraway lands such as France, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. I finally came to my senses on Thursday in deciding to take a well-needed break from work.

Weddings weren’t that far from my mind, however. On Thursday, I went to the wedding rehearsal at Ardenwood. Edna and Erik came by on Friday to use my printer for some wedding photos they wanted developed. If that wasn’t enough, tomorrow is the big wedding shoot day in Fremont. I guess days off from work and weddings go hand in hand these days when it comes to my life, no?

Rae was at my place on Friday morning to hang out for a little while before heading back to Oakland in the afternoon. Around 2:15 pm, Edna and Erik arrived with pictures to print and a copy of the MacOS X 10.1 upgrade CD. Edna had picked that up from the Seybold Conference happening in San Francisco this past week.

If you read my August 23 entry, you’ll remember that I’ve been having some major problems getting OS X to boot off of my PowerMac. At first, I was skeptical that 10.1 would solve my horrible blue screen of death problems on my PowerMac, but imagine my surprise to see it install and boot perfectly on my PowerMac! I can now experience the wonders of OS X on my Macintosh! There’s still a lot of work to be done before it’s prime-time, but it’s a good first step for Apple in making their OS more mainstream and up-to-date.

After sucking through my ink cartridge on my Epson 1280, the three of us went to the Los Portales Restaurant on Moffett Blvd for dinner. I ordered the usual Juan’s Special Enchiladas and devoured it. My stomach’s been getting bigger lately… I wonder if my famous metabolism is starting to show its age. One good, long backpacking trip should change all of that, however… or a more rigorous exercise routine!

Brian came over today to pick up my 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 lens that I’m loaning to him. He started to take this photography course and needed a lens to go with his EOS3. We talked a lot about the changes in the economy, going back to school, and wondering what else is there to do in life but work! Brian mentioned that the years seem to be going by faster and faster. I think that’s the case with me, and I attribute it to a couple of factors:

1. Work: In college, there were so many things that you were learning and doing that every semester or quarter seemed like an eternity. With work, everyday is more or less the same. You wake up, go to work, spend 8-10-12 hours on your butt, come home, and go to sleep, only to start it all over again the next day. This makes everyday seem like the same… which in turn makes it seem like time is going by quickly following graduation.
2. Mental Hard Drive Space: Your memory is like a big hard drive. Say, for the sake of argument, that your brain has a 100MB capacity for storing memories. As a kid, you’ve only used a fraction of the total hard drive space, say 1MB. In college, you’ve amassed quite a bit of knowledge and memories, such that you’ve used up approximately 50MB. Now, your once cavernous hard drive doesn’t seem so big anymore, does it? As you get older, you start worrying about how much space is left, not how much you’ve gained. It doesn’t help matters that you haven’t defragmented the hard drive recently or reorganized it!

So, there you have it, my theory or hypothesis on why time moves soooo much faster as you get older. There are ways to break that cycle and perception, however, but that’ll be a subject for another day!