Shop Trance

I saw one of my playing card packs sitting on a shelf collecting dust, what a shame it is. I live in a world where I can't sit down with another person and play a game, no one has the time and peace of mind to stop a play for a while.  It exposes how miserable the world is. Small talk is dead, public decency is worn away, the youth are angry and frustrated and all that is left is payer and the little daily perks that keep my chin up. 

An ordinary working man like myself will buy one item of clothing per week to slowly replace my clothes as they get worn out. I can just walk about in shops and look at stuff for a few hours and get something new. I got some new bamboo shocks for a fiver, I wonder how they got the fibres to be stretchy like elastic. The mysteries never end. 

I just look at stuff in my home and see a familiar sight and I sip some coffee, joy comes from that. As the world stinks of allegorical decay and hate, I distract myself with routines and things. 

A solar powered flower lamp, a favourite book, the lights in my little bar, my hobbies and games on my Nintendo I can play in my down time. 

If you keep your fingers busy, everything will be ok. There is a joy that comes from being transparent to everyone and being busy in private. 

A few Happy Thoughts

I was recall from my childhood in the movie 'Ghost Busters', there was a scene where they confronted Gozar the Gazarian, a made up supernatural being. 

I was wondering why it chose to appear as a human woman yet it had red eyes. It looked creepy, like it was pretending to be a human. I even thought to myself that it used the image of the key master and gate keeper as a template to create the image. Then it went into their minds and used the stay puft Marshmallow man as an image of their distructor because Ray was thinking about marshmallows. Those were the good old days, we would borrow a VHS tape from blockbuster videos; I liked VHS cassette tapes because they were about the size of a book so they could be on a book shelf. The shop would always smell like freshly made popcorn so that was nice. 

Isn't it nice when the sky is clear and there is a nice sunny day. You can look at the trees and breathe in the fresh air and try not to think about anything for a short time. 

Sometimes it's hard to be a man, all your small talk is scrutinized and you feel like society is always judging you. Sometimes you feel awkward because a person is afraid of your presence. They don't know men like myself are just thinking about things, they're thinking about package holidays, smart watches, computer games and movies they watched when they were a child. I just think about things, not mischief or violence. There are some bad men out there but most of us are placid busy bodies getting on with routines. 

SlowMag 40

I was thinking about a metro train that would deliberately go slow and it would hover on magnetic fields. I would call it the SlowMag40 because it is slow, it hovers on magnetic fields and moves at 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour). Why? It would be designed to be reliable and comfortable. 

I drew this in 5 minutes because I don't get much time but you get the idea. You get 8 padded sofa like seats with each door set and a window pane bench on both sides, that's it. There are 3 door sets for each trian carriage. 

There isn't much stuff to go wrong, the train is slow, there are no wheels, it goes 25 mph, there isn't much wind resistance. Although the train moves, there isn't much moving parts. 

Time is the worst pirate. 

What April 2024 Means To Me

Throughout April I thought this may was going to be a general election but I was wrong because they had a snap election in December 5 years ago so the new general election will be later this year. There are still elections on may but they're for the mayors and commissioners. 

It was always cloudy this month and very dark. The Israelis are still trying to rescue their hostages and people are still protesting about the conflict. They're ignoring all the other conflicts in the world, even the ones that have more casualties, lots of selective outrage. In the middle of the month there was a direct exchange of missile fire between Israel and Iran. It started when Israel accidentally hit the Iranian embassy in Damascus city in Syria. 

I managed to get a good deal on a Nintendo switch and was playing Red Dead Redemption throughout the month. It is an old game and they ported it over to the console the way it is; to me it is a new game because I never played it. I missed out on playing a lot of the 3rd person open world quest type games from the previous decade. I have no regrets with the way I use my down time, life is too short to care. A young boy was killed by a maniac with a sword the other day.  I feel pity for the boy and his family. Life is short and it can be shorter than you think. That is why I try to enjoy my down time.