I Have I(rritable)B(owel)S(yndrome)

Check it out! The San Gabriel Valley is getting served. I actually took this picture 'cause I could see the highrises in LA from where I was (top of Reseda Blvd.) but they didn't break through the haze in this picture. Now a quick lesson about the Valley.

Rich people live to the right in this picture, and poor people to the left.

So people over at the household here like to play games with each other alot. I am not a big game (elephants?) person. More often than not when I play a game I get filled with quite a bit of tension. You know, trying to beat someone and all can do that. Everything you do for a very short amount of time is important in your quest to win the game. I find this sort of false conflict between me and a person I usually enjoy being around quite distasteful. It often feels like simply creating a problem for it's own sake. Also, conflicts and attitudes taken in games can make their way into other areas of life. Playing a game has a way of concentrating aspects of an individual (greed, curtness, too serious, never serious, etc.) in a way that can illustrate quite rapidly a way in which a person can irk you. Anyway... summary:

1. unnecessary internal tension=bad
2. support of dislike towards a person due to small personality differences=bad
3. games that are fun and play down conflict=good
4. E.T. for Atari=aweful