"look what *I* did..."

i'm back from my vacation and decide to have lunch with a friend of mine today :) it was good to see him but then when we started eating, i remembered why i sometimes feel *awkeard* talking to him...

he's always had a knack of dropping hints or pieces of new information right out of the blue -- like how a fisherman drops his line with a yummy worm on the end of it, dangling it in the water, hoping to entice a few nibbles -- and pauses with enough time to suggest that i should be asking him to elaborate on this new information.

and to be polite, i ask him to explain, and then he'll nonchalantly explain to me in detail about whatever new is happening in his life. today it was this new web app that he's working on and how stressful it has been because he's had to book a booth at a tradeshow for next year and that beta should be releasing soon, and blah blah blah.

oh i know this is his baby, and i know he's extremely excited about it, but i what i don't understand is, why didn't he just come straight out and tell me how excited he is about this new project instead of beating around the bush? i think i'd be even more happy and excited about it with him if i didn't feel like i was obligated to ask him what was going on...

don't get me wrong. i am very happy for him but the conversation just started out ... weird. it's almost like he's trying to show me that he's got an exciting life and it's too bad that i'm not involved in this project....? i have no clue...