A Year of Optimism Extreme? (Blog 561)

How’s about this for a start to the new year: The petrol station meatball wraps are back! My favourite! I had one on Monday in fact, and it was as nice as ever. What happens when I get bored of them? Doesn’t matter, chicken slices are back, too. I’m getting a little tired of the chicken samosas I eat most mornings but maybe I’m expecting too much from a place that mainly sells petrol? I could ask for hash browns from the same place, but they take a good 3 and a half minutes to cook and one minute to retrieve from the secret area only I and the members of staff know about. For a busy person on the go like myself, it’s not always worth the wait. Talking of me having my time wasted, I’m going to have to phone my health centre as a nurse (apparently) put the wrong collection date on my meds. I’m fairly sure that was done on purpose to see how I react. People less reasonable than me have meltdowns because of that kind of thing, I’ve seen it. ‘I WANT TO BE DISCHARGED, I WANT TO BE DISCHARGED!!!’ Yeah, good luck with that. You screamed AND didn’t say ‘please’? My word. It’s probably not so much a year of optimism for him, but I saw that incident a while ago now and who knows, maybe his new year’s resolutions are to act more sane.

I’m also over the fact Christmas has passed, in fact the hypothetical thought of Christmas happening again soon annoys me. ‘I wish it could be Christmas every day’? Sounds like Hell to me. Some picture the underworld as horrific, I picture it as people singing every day and sharing. Celebrating my birthday every day should be better in theory as it’s all about me, but if I did do that, that would mean I would be over 13 and a half thousand years old now. Worst arthritis ever, I’d imagine. All in all, I’m happy with calendar the way it is. I’m not looking forward to the Summer as my mood always drops a bit then and for whatever reason, I don’t like eating takeaways in daylight. Can anyone explain that? It’s just not the same, I don’t know why. But daylight takeaways are a good few months away now, so it’s not so bad… I don’t mean to promote my local gym too much otherwise people would be hogging the already limited machines, but exercise’s effect on your mental health? Very good! It’s good for your physical health too obviously, even though you put your body through pain. Does that mean if you put people through mental pain, their minds will grow stronger? I only call people ‘pricks’ so they can grow. It’s kind!

At the time of typing, I’m listening to the albums I bought/received for Christmas. I have some pretty good stuff! Let music grow on you, that’s all I have to say. Not all music, though, same goes for people. Some people (like me) are best plain avoided. Don’t feed the trolls as they say. Attention for me is like Michelin star Italian food and I can’t get enough of it. It sounds arrogant, but I’ve also Googled my book ‘The Danger of Proverbs’ and was told by A.I. that it had a ‘mixed reception’ and some may not like the unrealistic character and plot development. It wasn’t supposed to be realistic! I mean… all the people exploding after eating food past its sell by date? I know that doesn’t happen… I didn’t get my book turned down by agents because they thought I tried to write a deep non-fictional analysis, did I? I hope not. Not only because I’d come across as insane but an idiot, too! I’m guessing the so called ‘mixed reception’ was from the agents I sent my work to, as I only know of one review of my book and that gave me five stars. Yes, a five star from someone I know and not a true critic, but even so, that’s a very positive reception! I asked A.I. if my book was publishable by a real agent and was basically told no, but I’m happy with it. I also asked if Simon Wiedemann was a good writer and was told that was subjective. Just say yes!

Let’s ask A.I. if Simon Wiedemann is good at music. Wow, it didn’t say ‘that’s subjective’ that time around, it said my material is good if you value it or words to that effect. Well, that’s meaningless isn’t it? It’s basically saying someone out there probably likes my music, statistically speaking. It’s like saying ‘you’ll like my music if you’ll like it’. Again, meaningless. Not the compliment of the century like I was hoping for. On the plus side though, A.I. does say my 4/5 and 4.5/5 Metal Rules reviews are appreciated! Well they would be wouldn’t they? Because they’re high scores. It would be very weird if my 1.5/5 score was appreciated. Could be worse though, I could have gave the guy 1 star. As always, the sun damaged CD spines in my collection are getting to me and I want to buy new copies, but it does sound like a waste of money, doesn’t it? The black spines are completely fine, though. You know what that means? When I go music shopping, I won’t be asking normal questions like ‘Do you have the new Deftones album’ but instead ‘do you have a band name beginning with ‘Z’ (because they’re easier to organise in my collection) with a black spine?’ That would come across as odd, wouldn’t it? Teachers leave the profession because they can’t handle the students, those working in HMV leave because they can’t handle me. A bit creepy as people have a deep-rooted need to understand. And on that thoughtful note… bye!