I just got back from a Nightmeal with Dan and Jess. It was fun... I realize again though that occasionally my brain puts things together in very different ways than most people, and when this happens, it often leads to odd parts of conversation. Actually, this happens more often than you'd think. I'm not really certain why, and wonder if it happens to me more than it does to most people. Anyhow, chances are pretty good that, unless someone comes to visit me this weekend, I'll have something to do on Saturday night.

In other notes, a friend is now in the early stages of a new relationship, and I'm happy for him. He suggested I ask out a particular someone else, but I just don't think that other person is my type. I'm pretty picky though.

The deep thought for now is a reflection on my recent reading, and a challenge for Marxism. Marx suggests that as communism is incredibly more productive than capitalism (in human capital), people will not need to work as much to produce a surplus of goods, and so there will be no institutional or state forcing of people to work as work is intermixed with more leisure. This, on the face of things, seems plausible. The problem, or question, I see is that normally Capitalism, when an area becomes efficient enough that fewer people are needed for task X, forces them to a new focus of labour through price pressures. How then would Communism deal with such labour shifts as technology develops? Would it suggest a mix of leisure and swapping labour to a less-advanced field? I have several similar questions...