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Now my web-rounds have mostly consisted of doom-scrolling reddit and the news, which is no way to achieve mental health. Especially given the news as of late...
You know what I mean.
But - recalling better days here's a couple of links I've probably posted in the past.
The first is Jason Kottke - Link: https://kottke.org/
Who's good, because while he's as well agonizing over the state of the union, he's also got other things going on. And it's important to remember there are other things going on, this news cycle can be paralytic.
The second is Futility Closet - Link: https://www.futilitycloset.com/
Which is updated daily, and a respite from the day to day assault on our attention spans.
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Ha! And - finally I have done it; at the restaurant we've hired some new staff and I've wrestled weekends off. Saturday and Sunday, specifically, and if I'm fortunate I'll be able to dovetail my other days into doubles meaning that I'll have 4 1/2 days off per week.
Which would suit me just fine.
The Saturdays off, well, I'll be able to attend the theatre, develop a better (and healthier) social life, get up to all sorts of things...
Starting today. Yayy!
Now - at the library, blogging and having done some maintenance on the database, the back-end, front-end, mentioned my uneventful and rather boring life it's time to read a bit my book of the moment - Richard Hakluyt - "Voyages and Discoveries" - rather abbreviated from it's original million and a half words to a comfortable 150, 000; a sixteenth scholars thorough documenting of all of Britains sea-voyages, often in the first person, descriptions of distant times and lands when the world - to Britain largely - was still a vast and unexplored place.
Anyways, it's great reading...
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And so I ran out of bandwidth the other day on my phone following a drunken downloading of the entire internet.
SO, for the next few days my internet use is restricted to the library.
At home it's too slow. Way too slow.
Facebook - can't even load the shortest inane video. Reddit stalls, even news sites are unreachable - it just shows how bloated with code the internet is; this website is no exception, these things should load on my phone no problem, they're simply text and images, that they don't shows how grotesquely badly the internet it being implemented. Code bloat. What should be done with a few kb worth of files & text now takes mb, even gb; and to no avail. Bandwidth for sale, use up the bandwidth as quickly as possible so we can sell you more...
That said, this is odd to me. I can play YouTube videos no problem. The video quality, not so good, but the audio is fine. Why is YouTube the only optimized website? In any event, listening lately to Sir Roger Penrose - interesting, but he's in decline, and there are these interesting AI narrated videos in the voice and style of the late Richard Feynman "Explaining" gravity, motion, etc, and these I'm finding good background listening, I'm putting together my own theory of Cosmology (much as Karl Pilkington might put together a theory of Anthropology) - still, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one confused by the state of the Cosmos.
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The two days leading up to - NYEE and NYE - both crazy. The restaurant fills on the 30th - people avoiding the NYE rush, instead creating another. Crazy, and I'm more or less on my own, there's back-up, the owner's wife to bartend and a busser, but - nonetheless, the restaurant is crazy.
NYE, same, but less crazy, less all-at-once and more regulated. And by 9:30 it's done and I'm off on my own little party.
The "Dosed" party, location undisclosed, but I've got the email and all suspicions confirmed. It's great. All the usual suspects, spicy outfits, people you know and people I have yet to meet, everyone is there, from the surprisingly bookish bookseller (on a tear), the lawyer, the librarian, the insurance, the .... customers from the restaurant that night, the night before, one - a 50 something man with what I thought was his daughter (oops) - and - well...spicy, spicy. Everyone in town, basically, a proper "Young Goodman Brown" and a good time is had by all.
I'm starting to know a lot of people, but not (or never) nearly enough. Dancing, dancing, until 2:30; the party's starting to fade and never be the last one there.
New Years Day, wake up, go back to bed, wake up, eat, go back to bed, wake up, go back to bed.
I've made my NYE resolution for 2026. More raves, more MDMA. Life is too short to miss out on these events.
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And trying to lower my vibration, the excesses of the Birthday and Xmas have made it unsustainable.
The neighbour is trying remediate the debt is attempting by sending me various links to crypto-trading scams and bogus online casinos; she count's the signing bonuses as credit against the loan...
I can say nothing and just shake my head.
Work, the in-between days Xmas to New Years, I have to work NYE but hope to off early, I have a ticket to somewhere I want to attend.
10 days away from the end of my billing cycle and I discover that I'm out of data. How did this happen? Apparently over Christmas I was bored and downloaded all of the best movies of 2025. A-ha. So - writing now confined to the library.
And last night, looting the fridge, a loaf of bread, some cucumbers, chilis, tomatoes, and I conceive the brilliant idea of putting the vegetables on a slice of bread - and - delicious; I think I'm on to something here. This morning to the Co-op, I'm going to try the same idea with the addition of meat and cheese...I'll let you know how it goes