Derived Requirements

In the last post, I listed my 12 requirements to begin my Super Secret Plan, aka the SSP.

Last night, Fabiano and I sat at the bar of the Golden Gopher downtown, talking about parts of the plan. We were unfashionably early, there about 9pm, so we got to sit up at the bar drinking beers.

Fab and I have been at the Gopher a couple of times now, and I really like it. The idea that I can go to a pub with a mate of mine to chat about life over a couple of beers is really cool. Very much like my British life. It seems like such a normal and necessary part of a guy's life, but, no one else in my life does this. All my other friends are recovering alcoholics that don't drink, full on alcoholics that can't just have a beer without ending up with a DUI, strange kids that don't like beer, guys that just can't talk about their lives because they don't have lives or don't want to talk about themselves, family men with kids and wives that aren't allowed out of the house, or people that live a million miles away.

Having a quick pint with your buds after work is one of the elements of community. California has no community.

Anyway, talking about the SSP, I've begun to realize that there are many derived requirements. The term "Derived requirements" is contractor-speak for things that you don't directly want, but are consequences of the decisions you've made.

Like this one...

If I am to do the 12 requirements for the SSP, the television has to go, the Playstation has to go. It may be that all the tech needs to go, so that I try living in the real world, instead of just watching it.