June 24, The yard.

It's a gorgeous day today, too bad it's Calgary! (haha) So I'm sitting outside at the behest of my lady-friend, writing. I was playing a video game, but I was getting a little tired of it. There should be an age limit for using a microphone in Team Fortress 2. There's a few mosquitoes out, but not an intolerable number, so all in all, I think coming outside to write was a good Idea. I guess I could also study my CompTia a bit, but meh. This is better.
Richard and Brian came for a visit last night, we had a good little chat, watched some television and ate a bit of popcorn. That was okay. I don't talk to my friends very often, I've never been the chatty type. Filling a pleasant silence with idle chatter strikes me as time that would be better spent doing anything else. Not that I dislike talking, I just like for there to be some content involved.
I'm being hypocritical though. This writing constitutes as idle chatter. Most people who know me are already aware that I'm not a chatter, they're probably aware of a whole lot of my personality traits. So to whom am I talking to here?
Probably myself, I tend towards introspection fairly regularly. I'd think that this means that I know myself fairly well. And that's true for the most part, I know what I want to be, I know what I dislike, I know who I care about, and I now that I don't know everything. I don't know too many of the details about myself. If someone were to ask me “Hey Nelson, do you like baking?” I would reply “Yes! I certainly do!” However, if that person were to then ask “Why?” I would probably be stumped. Baking is a thing that I like to do, and I rarely think about the details.
Thinking on it now, I know that I find the process of measuring, preparing and assembling ingredients to be relaxing, and there is somewhat of a closet chemist in me that is fascinated by the reactions of those ingredients that create tasty food, and the rest of the scientist in me loves how the application of heat and time changes those initial components even further.
Lindsay just baked a Spice cake. I'm hungry.