Same thoughts. Fortunate to have some pretty insightful old friends, but lot of them are pretty dull company.
Have to make what you can out of it though. Cannot do speaking of the latest game, but weather is fine. Non demanding discussions can be treated as rest. Hard to take a lot of that though. 

 It's exhausting having to pretend.  

 True and it probably shows. Unfortunately that's also interpreted as arrogance because of Bitcoin profits even though it has nothing to do with wealth. 

 They see you as someone new, but you still see yourself as the same kid who figured some stuff out.