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| Silence, Little Lamb! |
The new year finds us in no better position than before. Divestiture of useless possessions will continue ad infinitum (or until I run out of stuff). The whole purpose was to ready myself to move into the "crack house" in Chinatown. That decision is still pending.
The Nexus 7 tablet computer will have little use now that the "blog" has been quasi-mummified. There really is no purpose in owning it. I could simply exploit the display models at the fruit-based computer store in the den of consumerism (read: shopping mall) in Kahala. With no bookstore anymore, there's not much else to do anyway during my evening outings. So, that's where we stand at this point in time.
Still in the building.
ReplyDeleteI think i understand you better now. You need to experience unpleasant situations for truly extraordinary lengths of time before you are finally motivated to move on.
ReplyDeleteI spend much of the year traveling now, mostly by foot, camping maybe 2/3 the time, 1/3 in motels. I suppose there is a great deal of natural beauty in the areas where I hike, but I am mostly oblivious to it, and that's not the reason for my traveling. The true reason is to burn off excess time and physical energy in the least painful way I know of while waiting to die (which could easily take another 50 years given my good health and long-lived a ancestors).
I recommend supplementing the tablet with a kindle paperwhite (pay extra for the ad-free version). Kindle is like reading a real book, where a tablet is too distracting with all the colors and bells and whistles. Plenty of free books for kindle at gutenberg, in case you object to supporting the amazon juggernaut. I make an effort to read mostly books at least a hundred years old. I've considered limiting my reading to the ancient classics (greek, latin, hebrew, sanskrit), probably in translation, since I can't read any of those languages now. Then again, I have lots of time on my hands and maybe studying dead languages would be a good way to fill it. Best wishes. Anonder of the old geocities journal.
Greetings. I'm the reader who shows up regularly on your traffic feed from either Yokohama or Tokyo. I'm now in California, but I will return to Japan next week. We've never met, though we did exchange a couple of e-mails in the mid-1990s, in case that rings a bell. I've been reading you on and off (recently mostly on) ever since.
ReplyDeleteAdding moderated comments is an excellent idea. Keep up the good work.
Back in the building after an absence of a few months. Sending (belated) new year greetings from the United Kingdom.
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