so in the craziness that is my life, I have rebelled against acclimating to daylight savings, i have gone and done some crazy things, other crazy things that i did not due occurred, and i bought 1 piece of luggage.
so daylight savings. yeah. i am against the practice, mainly because it is archaic and insane, but also because i live a relatively nocturnal life. actually my days consist of lots of time spent awake both during the day and the night. i only sleep at the max 6 hours at a time. this does not sync up very well with most people i share space with. my roommate, my other, my family, my friends. it makes for a lot of time alone. a lot of time to think about my self by myself. A lot of time to let my mind wander and think of how life could be or would be or should be if i only did something different. if only. if only. but i don’t agree with the practice of changing the time. I agree that people should be able to operate on the time schedule of their choice. But then i live such a life of leisure that it would disgust you. it really would, if you saw the things that i do, or don’t do, it would blow your mindgrapes so hard. What i want, not that it would change daylight savings because i just want to not practice it at all, but what i want is a metric measurement of time. that sounds interesting. how do you split up time in tens. i want it all the way to days and weeks and months and years. that sounds crazy. sometimes when i’m alone, i think of how to do that, and what the parts would be called. I don’t want to write it down because then i don’t get to rethink them up (they’re different every time).
So in my recent purchase of an ipod touch, i have integrated the thing into a daily routine. To school it goes, allowing me the chance to get online and search and check my mail. but a few days ago i lost my stock headphones. that was a bummer. but i have headphones galore. so no worries. i used a pair of in-ear ones that i had, and from daily use and being in my pocket and out of my pocket, i lost one of the rubber things that makes it fit in your ear. this always happens. it is the worst because then you can’t do anything with the headphones, and you can’t buy replacement ones. i have gone through tons of pairs of these type, everything ranging from cheap to 30 bucks (expensive). and i had had enough. i realized i like the simplicity of the stock ones so i set out to get a pair. i was thinking of other brands, but i have tried most and they all feel like someone stepping on my ear. so the apple ones work well and they don’t hurt. Trust me i know, i rocked everything from way back when, when ipods were called walkmen, and we had to flip the tapes around and listen to slow songs as batteries died. but the apple ones are 30 dollars too. so that seemed crazy. and then as i was at the apple store, it dawned on me, the shuffle is 50 dollars. for 20 more dollars i could own another ipod. so that’s what happened. i now have 3 ipods, not counting the one i gave my other. it seems crazy, but slightly reasonable, all for a pair of headphones.
and on my way in tonight, around 2 am, my car broke down on the freeway. mind you that this is the car i got as a temporary replacement while i work on my other car. it is all so ludicrous.
And i bought a garment bag. nothing exciting there, just a piece of luggage for a cruise i’m going on. it should be fun, and hopefully i’ll get to read a bunch of books i’ve been using as dusty surfaces.
that’s it. just a little post of the crucial minutiae of my day.
March 11, 2008 at 5:30 am |
going against the so called justification for irratating the public, daylight savings time may actually result in more consumption of electricity according to a report.
Yesterday I noticed every person (5) passed on the sidewalk walking into work was talking to a cell phone. All oblivious to the world and life around them. Completely tuned out to everything in life and obsessed and controlled by this electronic device. Very unlikely that their conversations on the other end were worth while. Certainly not by what I was being forced to hear. The intrusion by individuals, companies, agencies etc though all these electronic devices may render them to be the hated and feared.
Sounds as though you could be risking your life driving around at 2 a.m. Why would you be doing that?
March 12, 2008 at 12:16 am |
2 a.m. danger was not at all noticeable. I suppose a semi truck could have come barreling into me at some point, but i know better. I parked under a streetlight, far far on the right side of the shoulder, up on the berm in fact. I had my hazards on and i sat in my car with the seatbelt on. So it was relatively safe, plus not too much traffic at 2 in the morning, and i was on the outskirts of town going into town so luckily no drunk drivers. But 2 am driving is the best because it means less people. the trick is to be on the road before 2 or around 3.
So the electronic devices are a strange lot. we aim for community and connectivity and the convenience that those devices allow, but in reality they isolate us, and only allow for mediated things to occur. Lost is the potential for a grander state of spontaneity. Everything is rendered more efficiently, forcing people to deal with more time between moments. And if the device that allows for more convenience exists, people gravitate to it and use it to occupy their time. i like all the devices because it helps maintain focus. it allows for all the things i normally notice, daily life’s information, disappear as background information. it is almost like it induces transcendence. but i am not naive enough to believe that true transcendence doesn’t come from a device.
I think these objects are more like toys for big people. and just like kids we get lost in where we can get lost into.
also, arizona doesn’t celebrate the dumbness that is daylight savings.