I took a day off for the first time in a while and drove to NC for my Dad’s birthday. We played golf and DDR and smoked hookah. It was fun.

Before the trip I spent more credit card reward points to get 100 songs. I got some Eames Era, which is cool except that all their songs sound pretty similar. I got the first Jamiroquai album, which pretty much kicks ass. I also got some Thievery Corporation, Air, Paul van Dyk, and Opeth.

On the way home I listened to The Infinite Mind, a program on NPR. Tonight’s episode was about money, how we think about it and whether or not it makes people happy. It was pretty interesting. Jim Cramer was a guest on the show. He talked about how his obsession with money used to consume him. There was also a economical psychologist who had some interesting things to say, like how people don’t think about the actual empirical value of money, but just of how much of it they have. For example, he said that people don’t get upset when they only get a 3% annual salary raise and that year’s inflation goes up by 5%, but if you cut their salary by 2% when there is no inflation, they get upset.

I still think of embarrassing shit I did years ago. I laugh at it to make myself feel better.