I've been thinking about how America is now 'The Gun Country'. It's the place with all the guns and the gun violence. Maybe they need to lean into it. Presidential election at dawn with muskets.
I've been thinking about how America is now 'The Gun Country'. It's the place with all the guns and the gun violence. Maybe they need to lean into it. Presidential election at dawn with muskets.
I did a little house walk-around with the missus today. What still needs to be done to get the house just how we want it. What still needs to be unpacked or set up. We've got so much done. Just the last little bits to be done.
I've cancelled my subscription to my Mastodon client 'Ivory'. I think I've finally run out of enthusiasm for social media. I might check it using Elk occasionally but not obsessively. It's just not working for me anymore.
Celebrated my birthday this last weekend. Bought myself a Cricut paper cutting machine and spend the whole weekend enjoying creating stuff. The results were sub standard but the pleasure in learning new stuff is everything I enjoy.
We put together the last bed today. We're officially moved back in more than 2 years after the flood. Everything else is just cosmetic. It was a more emotional moment than either of us expected.
I've been looking forward to many things for many years. Paying off the mortgage. Repairing the home that was destroyed by floods. Getting moved back in. A week off. Now that is all behind me. I don't have any important life things to look forward to. And so I find myself looking forward to video game releases. Putting an enormous amount of emotional investment into getting to play Hades 2 or Satisfactory.
I drank a couple of glasses of red wine last night. This is a rare occurrence these days though it used to be a nightly one. I don't have a headache today. I'm not nauseous. But I do have this terrible melancholy. Drinking wine is like drinking synthetic happiness. It sours overnight and pools in the body as despondency. My world view is pessimistic. I don't think anything is good. I suppose that's why they call it whine.
I've been playing around with VR recently and it's such a compelling experience. The odd thing is that when I'm not using it I keep hallucinating various windows are popping off my screens. I didn't realise how fragile my sense of depth was and how quickly it can be trained to expect the impossible.