Closing Down Continues

Today my bank accounts and Banker’s Guarantee and all that other financial stuff were officially closed down. The only link I now have to living a “local” life is the fact that my phone still works, and that’s only got a lifespan of about 48 hours at best and then that too will have its plug pulled.

On some level, things are finally startint to seep in that I am leaving this place. For the last year or so I’ve been mostly hanging out with the editor of GameAxis for obvious reasons. We see each other all the time at the office, and, more importantly, we just get along really well, being in just about the same age group, and having a similar sensibility with regards to games, comics, art, film, authority, and how to buck authority. Tonight was his birthday and so the Wife and I had our last dinner with him in what will potentially be either ever, or for the next year or so depending on how his–and our–fortunes turn out with regards to certain projects. But he’s been a really fun, great guy to hang out with, and like the fella’ I had dinner with on Friday, is one of those people I count as a good friend here. I’m gonna’ miss him and the way we’d launch into a tangent about a particular comic book, trashy film or obscure game that would usually leave the rest of the crowd kind of wondering exactly what Tibetan monastery we had gone to school together in.

Also, for the first time since one of my friends got married, I watched Transformers The Movie. The Wife had a vague recollection of it as a kid, but this time she got the full on treatment, and, thanks to my incessant playing of Guitar Hero, had a newfound respect for the wailing guitar solo that follows soon after the hardcore utterance “The Transformeeeeeeeeeeeeeers!“

And, in case anyone is interested, the Wife is now doing her own personal Top Ten Countdown, where she lists the things about this island she is not going to miss. You may have to scroll up to see it.