Walking to get a coffee is when I've solved some of the most complex problems in my head. Walking to get a coffee was also one of the few times I'd leave my desk. What even was lunch...
My friends all went to uni and I went straight into full time work after college. They were having a blast while i was speed running the adult human condition. They had overseas trips and big uni balls and I worked and saved.
By my mid 20s I'd bought a house and was quite advanced in my career, and now I'm middle aged I'm in a far better financial position than they are, and I'm old enough now to put aside FOMO for my youth.
But here's the thing, I did the work really hard thing and got the pay off that was promised. This generation? I don't think it matters what they do, they're fucked. And that's bitterly unfair.
If I were their age, at least in my country, I'd do a trade, travel, try and live off the grid or look into tiny homes and communal living. The system was always rigged but once upon a time there were ways you could get ahead, with some sacrifice and delayed gratification. It's just not true anymore and it's bullshit to tell them otherwise.
I'd counsel young people (again in my country) to learn useful skills and live it up. Don't even try to play the game.
His stumbling over the sentence cadence made him accidentally say the opposite. He meant to say that he wouldn't have picked her for VP if she wasn't qualified for president - think about it, that that's a far more normal thing for him to have said and I'm positive what he meant. He just tripped over the words.
I'm an insomniac and the news came through while most of my country would be asleep. There's been news I've woken my sleeping partner up for, because it's been historic or 'in the run '.
Jan 6 was one of those days.
This wasn't. And yeah it had just happened and then the event was over so, nothing really ongoing. But I literally read what I needed to about it and moved on.
On reflection, America has used up all my sense of surprise, and I'm ashamed to say, compassion for them.
I watched Sandy Hook unfold and cried. I remember that day. But the many, many that came after? Just another headline.
I'm not hyper focused on the news; there's plenty going on in my country of interest or more relevance to me.
But I think it's odd that the attempted assassination of an American President in my lifetime... Just isn't surprising or interesting to me. I just have a 'well that tracks for that place' attitude. Putin? Now that would be something.
When you don't immediately get it you have to wonder:
Is it a reference to something at the time that's not within my lifetime/country's zeitgeist?
Is it a play on an idiom or common cliche?
Is it literally nonsense and absurdity for the sake of it?
Am I just a big dummy?
I think it might be just 3, i.e. the absurdity of this happening at all, that he's concerned about the coconuts without realising/or being concerned that his head is sprouting a palm tree, and that Margaret seems irritated that he's woken her for what her expression suggests is either an incident of his own making, or one that's trivial.
But his body looks weird so it could be 2, 'no man is an island' or something.
I'm in my late 30s and Australian so it could be 1.
I heard that, at least in countries where we read left to right, we also look for things left to right. And if you reverse this and look from right to left that you're more likely to notice something you otherwise missed. So I do that. But I have no data to confirm if it works...
I have a cold virus at the moment. Home test confirmed it wasn't Covid, influenza a/b or RSV. So just a bug. It'll run its course and I'll be ok soon.
I feel pretty bloody ordinary but not as bad as I did when I got Covid when I couldn't stand up for more than 45 min at a time due to fatigue. Or the only time I've had influenza A which absolutely rocked me and necessitated a hospital visit for fluids.
I've not had cause to leave the house since I became symptomatic but I need to tomorrow. I'm going to wear a mask and keep my distance as much as possible. I was reflecting that a few years ago I would have gone to work in my office. I would have justified it as ok because I feel like I'm on the tail end of the illness and can probably handle going in, even if I feel like shit.
And my workplace would have also expected that. So bizarre to think about.
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