Tis' not that deep.
Yesterday I had more trouble doing mental math addition than I care to admit. My buddy Jerry and I sat on a stoop tallying the final scores of BOPPN's 2024 NYC Scavenger Hunt, when I deliriously blurted out only wrong answers. Jerry, only slightly more lucid than me, helped. [west version]
I still feel just as physically shitty as during yesterday's math problems. But I'm starting to realize that yesterday was the best day of my life. [written listening to going to california by led zeppelin]
An hour into the hunt, I was far from that conclusion. I found a bug and was convinced the world was ending. But, after (mostly) calming down, I was able to fix it without anyone bringing it up! [listening to something will happen by Berlioz]
When you can build anything, how do you know whether you're spending time wisely? And in the past four years, I've done lots of hard work without heartwarming results. [a pirate looks at the age of forty by jack johnson, dave matthew, tim reynolds]
Yesterday, that changed. I haven't built the project of my life, but I've built one I'm truly proud of. We delivered the silliest day of fun. The few months spent working with Jerry, Shawn, and Belle, is the most rewarding project experience I've encountered. [listening to where the streets have no name by U2]
We'll be BOPPN! [all my friends by lcd soundsystem]
- "I want to reiterate again. Best day of my entire life."
- "It was truly one of the most special and epic days I've had on this earth"
- "Being [x] was probably the highlight of my life"
- "It wasn't even mental math. It was just putting the right numbers into the equation on your computer. You were forgetting the numbers that you were looking at" – Jerry G