It is getting darker and cloudy these days, days are noticeably shorter. I can sense the days are getting shorter because the sun dips below the horizon before 8. Here in Britain the skies can be grey for days at a time, it feels so grim, the summer is fading away for another 9 months. In virtual reality the weather is always nice unless you don't want it to be. The talk on everyone's lips is the strange comet, i3-atlas. Some people think it is slowing down or changing speed like a space ship, others are sceptical and think it's just a comet flung out from another star system. Other people think it is heading for earth.
When the news is grim, when the skies are grim and filled with grey, what can you do? Get some comfort from your imagination. I imagined winning the lottery and getting planning permission to build my house on an abandoned industrial site. The house would have extra large vents, the vents would be used to contain a small gauge railway set.
There would be cupboards in the house with nothing in them. You open the cupboard and there is no back-panel, just an opening to a mini train station. There would be small trains with 4 cars, each car is just big enough for one person to sit in it. Each train car would be a custom made box with an array of skateboard wheels screwed to it but it would be dressed up like a train. At the flick of a switch lights would turn on and the miniature metro rail system turns into a fishless aquarium; there would be screens inside little glass boxes showing fish swimming around but there would be no fish in them. It would be a fake aquarium. It looks real but there is no water and no fish.
The large vents would also be very good at taking stale air out of the rooms and filling the rooms with fresh air. A house with extra large vents to facilitate hobbies and make the air fresh. Imagination just for comfort. Sometimes imagination isn't just used to create things it is to settle the mind.
