31.8.08

The End of Another Summer 

A pink in the evening today... And a pink tomorrow morning... Should make this particular Monday more bearable.

I'm already looking forward to its end.

30.8.08

Slate. Clean. 

Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Still as bad as it was in the pre-release 'beta'. With an added twist - the hottest piece of loot these days seems to be the white armour paint. The new low of the MMORPG scene, I think.

28.8.08

Social 

I actually went looking for people on Facebook. Added a picture of myself as well. I must be out of my mind.

27.8.08

A Tunnel 

Note, if you will, this. A guy is looking for a large, heavy, metal fountain pen. He specifically doesn't want a small, light pen made of plastic. And what does this guy do? He recommends the Pelikan 200. Which is a small, light pen made of plastic. I can hardly think of a pen which is less like what is asked for and more like what is not wanted than the 200. (OK, I can, but the hyperbole is quite fitting here.) But that is the pen that guy would recommend if someone asked for a ballpoint which can write under water.

When I said there are idiots even among the fountain pen users, this is the kind I had in mind.

24.8.08

Pass-through 

I listen, but I don't hear. If someone asked me what happened in the world this weekend, I wouldn't be able to answer. Are the Olympic Games over yet?

22.8.08

Clump 

Not sleeping because I'm having vivid dreams beats not sleeping for no apparent reason. The result may be the same, but getting there is more fun. It almost makes it worth it.

21.8.08

Strange, Strange Dream 

I was going somewhere with some people. They were my childhood friends (I was younger than I am as well), although none of them were any of my real childhood friends. We were going to the cinema, but not any real cinema I know. The path took us left at the signals towards Zibel (the street going eastwards from the crossing), although it wasn't really that street, it looked nothing like the place, just felt like it. It was night, but the moon gave some light.

One of the people suggested that we take a shortcut through the fields (what fields?), so we turned off the road and went through a fence of some kind. That was when I found myself alone. I went on as if nothing was out of the ordinary, while my surroundings first changed into a nice front yard, and then into a combination of a winter garden and a house's entrance hall. There were potted plants and flowers everywhere, as well as some shoes. The place had a distinct rural feel. I saw stairs leading up, and I climbed them. When I reached the top, I found myself in a living room where two women and some small dogs were watching TV. That was when I decided this wasn't the shortcut to the cinema and went back. The front yard was much smaller than I remembered when I went in. I decided to go out by the main door instead of the instead of the provisionally blocked missing part of the fence I (we?) came in through. But there were two large dogs in the yard now, two old German shepherds, and they attacked me. After a moment of fright, I dispatched both dogs with a long knitting needle, by sticking it into their brains through their eyes (I think I actually know where this part came from). Which was when the two old women came shrieking out of the house. I killed them the same way, I have no idea why, I don't think I had a reason. Maybe to stop the shrieking?

The WTF factor became too high at that point, and the rest got jumbled. The jumbled part involved the person who suggested we take a shortcut explaining he honestly thought there was a field beyond the fence, even though it was obvious, in the light of the next morning, that there weren't any fields there, a well which was just there and had nothing to do with anything, and my own grandmother (which wasn't either of my real grandmothers, but I knew she was) wondering why the hell I did all that I did.

I don't think it needs saying that I didn't sleep well last night. The dream was both the result of that, and the cause.

20.8.08

Water 

I wonder if I can keep up with another thing I started doing... Reading serious books! On the menu now, Good Natured by Frans de Waal. A book about animal ethics. I've been planning to read it ever since... Well, since I bought it.

17.8.08

Idiots 

There are idiots everywhere. Why I thought I would find a less-than-average number of them in an internet community of fountain pen users, I don't know. Now that I think of it, I should've actually expected an above average number..

Oh, missed my page today/yesterday. I do have an excuse... I was engaged in, for me, a rather unusual activity.

15.8.08

A Page a Day 

I'm trying to force myself to exercise. Just the brain, for the time being, and by writing at least page of coherent (more or less) thoughts per day. Despite the initial enthusiasm for the idea, I'm not too hopeful, but we'll see.

Maybe some of it will end up here, as well.

11.8.08

Another Ending 

Thus end the three weeks of my holiday.

I didn't really go anywhere, so now I feel like I've wasted them. On the other hand, I tried the going-somewhere thing last year, and I know perfectly well how that went. Still...

But now, ready or not, back into the rut I go. A good thing I have some beer to see me on the way.

9.8.08

Marked 

Yup. I've done it again.

8.8.08

Territorial Pissing 

There are pens on my mind, and they won't go away.

7.8.08

Family 

I ate a pink yesterday... Because I needed help with spening the day with the family.

I don't think I'm feeling so well...

4.8.08

Let the Sleeping Mocker... 

This is one of those funking days when I wish I fucking stayed on bed. Only staying in bed would not have helped much.

3.8.08

Four and a Half Hours 

There and back again, as it is said.

The Mocker had a field day, and the Youth cried. The Silent One was, as usually, silent.