"I awoke at three in the morning, bored out of sleep by dreams of such paralyzing mediocrity that I could not lie there and suffer my own breathing."The remainder of that paragraph-long piece tells how the protagonist's boredom was "cured" by an unimaginable sequence of horrible calamities. The piece ends with the only possible reflection:
"Somehow, the universe always provides."Well, for me, the universe is providing. :-) No horrible calamities as yet (fingers crossed), but getting ready to move across country is making for some big-time disruptions that my goodly wife and I haven't experienced since our 20s. I got home yesterday from a quick trip to sign an apartment lease. Finding a place that's okay with our four felines was stressful, but luckily the in-person part was completed in just one day. A red-eye flight got me home before a big snowstorm hit the Rockies.
But! The chaos of packing has unearthed some interesting artifacts. I found the colorful plastic name-tag from my first job: picking up garbage at a Six Flags theme park. (No image to post, but just think of the "pieces of flair" from Office Space.) I found a copy of the Norse myth play that I wrote at the age of nine.
A more recent layer of strata revealed the robot costume that we made for my son when he was 5 or 6...
A bit of garage mold necessitated a ceremonial disposal, but not before fully documenting the find, like good archaeologists. :-)
There were also a few things that connect with the history of this blog...
Yup, this was pretty much a true story. Below is the most surprising find...
...which completes the documentation of the Alphabet of Neptune that I previously revealed to the world. The above symbol, by the way, is the "Interplanetary Peace Sign." Nice. If there's interest, I could conceivably post a translation of the whole booklet.
There hasn't been much time for writing fiction, but on the plane I added quite a bit to the copious notes and outline for the story that I talked about last time. My characters now have names. :-)
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