07 august 2025
So the time is now 12:33 AM, August 7, 2025. Having me a dish of ice cream as I type this. I think it's some gooey butter cake flavor, a good second place behind oatmeal cream pie. Yes we have ice cream constantly. Glad to be at an age where I can get away with that.
Anyhow, not a whole lot happened today since we're off work on Wendesdays, and my dad had us postpone tomorrow's workday to Saturday, so we're probably gonna go to the boweling alley tomorrow since my younger brother--like me--just wants something to happen.
Also, I have a penpal, and his letter--or really, small package--arrived today. He--a proud west coast hippie in every way--sent me a copy of Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception", in essence an autobiography of some of his psychedelic experiences.
He had sent me a postcard much earlier trying to tell me "hey, haven't forgotten about you, I'm just stretched thin" and I thought that maybe, since he's 20 or 21, that he's involved in something with his college over the summer. Not the case. He had gone on somewhere around the ballpark of five camping trips including a backpacking trek as well as a grand west coast road trip with his goofy posse.
Evidently he really wants me to join said posse, go to university in California, let him show me around, do some goofy shit, and while I already have set-in-stone plans for the in-state university I'm going to, I'm not ruling out that I could go in the summer after freshman year of college or something. That being said, I'd be...ya know...a poor college student and a flight to Santa Cruz wouldn't exactly be high on the list of priorities but I suppose it isn't impossible.
It's funny--I had always thought he was just some chill guy in university who went to parties and had drugs every so often, but this dude's full hippie. Obviously nothing against him, it just wasn't what I expected.
I could see myself consuming alcohol in my future (family tradition to enjoy a good drink) but I don't see psychedelics. It just seems life-shifting in a way that doesn't seem beneficial to me.
And again, nothing against the guy, I'd kill to meet the bastard! He even sent me a rough first chapter of some planned narrative memoir or autobiography of that big road trip. But you can't blame me for thinking it's a bit much.
Now he makes a good point. I wrote him earlier about how I really need to get out of this place in nothingtown and go somewhere where I have power and decision of my own. Me wrote me saying that I should do it the first chance I get. "Here's to a fucking awesome future" he writes.
I needed that.
--
Heya! Now it's 12:49 PM, same date and all.
I now realize that the aforementioned west coast hippie is probably rading this right now!!
Hi Andre!!!! Please take no offense!! Lol
Anyway we haven't gone to the bowling alley yet, they open at four so I might as well bum around while I still can.
That's all.
permalink
05 august 2025
Alright, it is now 9:56 PM on August 4, 2025. Currently my computer is trying to render a music score video for a recently (cough 2 months ago cough) performed piece that I'm gonna put on my YouTube.
I'm actually quite proud of that piece--definitely my most mature work thus far. It's unfortunately called "PITCHPLAY" for lack of any better ideas, which can be twisted to make one too many sex jokes. I'm already here.
I need to work on a new piece. I've kinda deviated away from my interest for music for a little bit too long and I'm sure I'll have to rein it back in for the coming schol year, especially if I'm getting any composition scholarships.
Hey fun fact! Did you know I was on the job driving the UTV today, acted like a fool, and drove it into the lake??!? I fell out into the water and we were pretty damn close to getting injured!!!! FUN!!!!
Thankfully the only thing that seems to be the problem is that the air filter got all gummed up with water. It's just sitting in the garage right now in front of a fan in hopes that does anything.
I told my dad, thankfully not pissed, to "take it out of my paycheck", but at most we lost a couple pairs of gloves and a paper towel roll so it's all good.
Boy, people knock on tradies and rednecks but I can see that they'd be the only bastards surviving whatever theoretical AI takeover happens, and just from my own bits of experience it's not like that kinda life isn't completely unfulfilling, just not for me is all.
God bless the rednecks for there may come a day when we need them more than ever.
Looks like the video's done rendering.
permalink
04 august 2025
Alright, now it's 10:13 PM, August 3. It just says August 4 because it's on UTC and I have no idea how to fix that. I figured I would stop double-spacing since it looks obnoxious on desktop but it looks just fine on mobile. I'll probably just change the CSS.
Turns out the IRC has a Toki Pona channel! What a discovery! Talking to other jan pi toki pona was sorely needed. There's also channels for Esperanto, Japanese, French, and German but there doesn't seem to be one for Mandarin Chinese yet. Mandarin is my strongest natural language (besides English ofc) so I'll have to figure that out.
Looks like all you need to do is type /join #chinese and you're off to the races until you type /part #chinese at which point the channel deletes itself (since you're the only one in the server I suppose).
On an unrelated note, went to the one Mexican restaurant in nothingtown that we've been to like 20 vigintillion times. Ordered something different, it was alright.
What is it, sixteen days before school? Christ, I don't even have my license yet.
Funny enough, last year, they had a whole district-wide survey asking "Hey, should we have school out on Mondays?" The thought was that it would only stretch the daily schedule out by 15 minutes in either direction and it would (supposedly) attract new sorely-needed teachers. Both of my parents are convinced that the problem is far bigger than that.
Tough times for those who actually care about the kids in nothingtown. I won them $1000 at a competition and while most were impressed, there was only one teacher who seemed convinced the money might be at all significant to the district. To be fair, she led the main money-making extracurricular.
Shit, what's my schedule for this year? I think it's physics, calculus, accounting, middle school tutoring, drama, some English class, and I forget what else. I could search through my stack of papers from last year but it would take so long that my shoddy connection would reset and I'd have to write this all over again. No guarantee I have it anyway.
The only thing I know for sure is that I'm not taking any sort of music class, which is a massive shame because I could really use some preparation for university audition. I just can't bear another year at marching band.
Just remembered I have the planning thing on Google Sheets. That "what else" is desktop publishing, basically yearbook class. The yearbook this year was fine, but the formatting and writing could use many improvements and I have a good relationship with the teacher there from creative writing club.
Sounds good. Now I just need to get my damn license. They let students paint their own parking spots so it would be nice to have some sense of permanent impression on the place.
permalink
03 august 2025
Didn't know this thing had a blogging engine. Good to have something to use tilde town for besides updating my website and the infrequent chat or two.
It's 3:09 in the morning, Sunday, August 3, 2025. Don't really have a reason to sleep.
Senior year of high school begins in two-ish weeks. Looking forward to it since school is all that happens here in nothingtown except for the occasional hiphop concert, and even then the guy who does those graduated and has bigger plans
Perhaps I'll have to take his place. Don't know what I'd play that they'd actually enjoy though. The hiphop enjoyers are a relative minority of the people here (because why would you ever listen to anything besides country??) and even then I don't typicallly do hiphop. I do experimental avant-garde chamber music.
I'll totally have a job in the future! Trust me bro!!
Working on a semi-formal criticism of the constructed language aUI. Long story short, the creator (and a bunch of other professors??) act like it's the most objective thing in the world when there are so many places where it obviously isn't.
Writing this on nano since I'm not used to command line shit at all!!! And this is just what tilde.town gave me by default. Plus all the commands are right there, thank God.
Ok bye.
permalink