Just Another Day? (Blog 353)

Today may or may not be interesting in that I may or may not be seeing my brother’s family this afternoon, but whatever the case, I decided to blog about at least something. That’s because many many years ago, I was told to blog at least four times a month, I’ve only blogged three other times this month, and I’m expecting the following few days to be so dull they’ll be basically unblogable. Tragically I have a plaster on one of my fingers after cutting myself on a razor (by accident! A strange accident, but hey) making typing just a little bit more difficult and annoying, but it’s time to pull myself together. Let’s go!

8:40 I’m finally out of bed after frequently altering the time on my alarm clock. I should have been out 20 minutes ago, but in my defence, I went to bed about 20 minutes later than usual last night. Call me wild. I then checked mobile. It will be the last time I check my phone for the day. I don’t like them.

8:45: I started going through my emails. I have a few accounts for different reasons, maybe even dumb reasons, (I made one account especially for Zoom calls which wasn’t really necessary) but I only ever really use two accounts. Really I just use one. Still let’s check my other sites just in case. Very repetitive. Very boring.

8:50: A blocked nose interfered with my checking plans, but I’m back in business checking spam; sent messages just in case a lunatic sent emails on my behalf; and website activity just in case someone is using my account in New Zealand or whatever random country, etc. Twitter takes ages to load so that slowed my day down a bit. As always, I checked I wasn’t being accidentally abusive when writing my hashtags, (e.g. saying ‘#go away’ instead of ‘#lol’). Similarly, I needed to check Wix for unwanted abuse in my posts. Seeing my friend write something silly in school by mistake has clearly had an effect on me.

9:20 Time to change my finger plaster ‘for hygiene’ reasons. Ah Google, where would I be without you and your great advice? I also had a shave. It was a good shave.

9:28 Time to visit my favourite websites, such as Facebook and such. Not criminal cyber stalking sure, but maybe a tiny bit weird.

9:35: Time to watch Youtube as I eat Chinese leftovers from the night before.

10:00: I wasn’t eating the WHOLE time over the last 25 minutes. Certainly a lot of the time, though. Most of it, even. At this point I left for shops with my dad!

10:38: I’m back from the shops and am eating again whilst Youtubing. If I don’t get full up, MAYBE I’m just seriously rockin’ things up at the gym and need the energy? This time however my eating is a little more healthy with some tasty mangoes! And a muffin.

10:52: Time to brush my teeth, etc! Let’s be careful around the razors.

11:00: Time to chill out and watch more Youtube! As I eat some biltong. I must be massive right? Actually I’m just 5 foot 4 and weigh 60.0 kg exactly. A paradox. Either a paradox, or I will be putting on weight very shortly. As I don’t go to the gym on Sundays, weight gain is a very real possibility.

11:18: I’m listening to Foo Fighters! My copy has a severely cracked case, yet it’s in my special collection? The most sincere compliment the band could possibly have. As you know I almost always consider cracks a huge no no. You know when I gave the album 8.5/10? Scratch that, let’s say 8.75/10. Or nine!! It’s not all good news though. Remember the King of Leon CD I reviewed? Let’s give a lower score to that. I love the intro song though. Super fab. Talking of screwups, in my Foo Fighters review, I forgot to point out what people with BPD would do their CD cases. Well, they’d probably treat them inconsistently. That’s all.

11:25: One more short Youtube video. This time of someone speeding then getting arrested.

11:30 I’m still hungry you know? But I’ll leave food for later.

12:20: The prior comments have transformed from gibberish notes into readable sentences. And I’m STILL hungry. Maybe a pack of crisps could work. Yep, I’ll eat whilst watching Youtube!

12:34:56: Now I’m listening to Pigeon Detectives. No cracked case! However, the music isn’t as good as the Foo. Damn. Ok I lied, I actually put the music on a few seconds earlier than stated. However, I did enjoy looking at the time on my computer when it came along.

12:38: Let’s visit Facebook again.

12:40: Well that didn’t inspire any writing…

12:50: Nope, still don’t know what to write. On the plus side, I’m not hungry!

13:04: I have to be honest, I am feeling a bit peckish. But crucially, not too peckish so I won’t munch on anything YET. I told my dad my remote’s off button isn’t working which is annoying, but he told me he has a controller that works on my same TV! The downside is it’s his and I can’t have it. I tried another controller and it didn’t work, so I guess I’ll have to borrow my dad’s controller in secret. Not too big an issue.

13:09: Let’s take my used food wrapping and all that stuff downstairs, to the kitchen. Hint, hint, dad. Put it in the bin.

13:24: If I’m really still hungry, I see no harm in eating yesterday’s prawn crackers. Or at least some of them.

13:26: Only three and a half crackers have been eaten. Not too bad!

13:29: Let’s eat some more.

13:31: I’m paying the price with hiccups.

13:32: Wow, I literally hiccuped just TWO times! I honestly don’t think that’s ever happened before…

13:33: Let’s watch Guthrie Govan on Youtube. Great, someone has transcribed his playing! I particularly enjoyed looking at the septuplets. Interesting note groupings! And ever so slightly faster than sextuplets. :O

13:50: I can’t for the life of me think what else to say.

13:55: I’m listening to Tank and Wikipedia says they’re still going strong after forming in 1980! The person who plays Hyacinth Bucket is also still alive at the age of 93! That’s nice.

13:58: I have numerous crackers still in front of me, but I have no desire to eat them. THAT’S how you know when you’ve eaten enough.

13:59: I’m listening to the live tracks at the end of the Tank album, and they’re not bad at all. Well done, them. Usually live songs used as bonus tracks in studio albums suck. Then again, Tank’s music is fairly basic, so there is little to screw up. But the singer has a good voice, I suppose. :)

14:06: Nope, let’s have another cracker. Just one.

14:15: Following the last cracker, I now feel very full. Ahhhhh. Relief. Finally.

14:38: I’ve just watched a Youtube video about someone taking too much medicine and damaging his kidneys. Luckily that hasn’t helped me generate content I can relate to. As in ‘Ahhh, I remember the time I damaged my kidneys.’ Keep it light.

14:49: Let’s listen to ‘Elizabeth’ by Team Sleep. I’ve been listening to it for about 12 years and it’s just super duper. And I’m still not hungry! What a time to be alive.

15:00: More interestingly and again on Youtube, I’ve just started to listen to ‘Lavender Town’ from the Pokemon Gameboy game. I first heard about it on a musical Youtube video, and it was explained it uses the Lydian b2 scale. That’s an interesting scale. It’s the kind of scale you’ll most likely hear once in a lifetime. Of course, it is used so little because it sounds GENUINELY horrible and I mean that with ever fibre of my being. Many Youtube commentators boast they can listen to the song for a good few minutes before becoming sick or at least getting a headache. Other perhaps more honest people say things like ‘it makes me want to cry’. Others say it ‘makes their stomach turn’. Can you imagine an audience requesting this from a band: ‘Play something that makes our stomachs turn, and us all cry’? Just why? I used to have positive associations with lavender. I used to think it was a harmless, nice smelling plant. Now I’m somewhat fearful of it.

15:04: That’s enough of that song. Let’s listen to Metallica’s latest song. Relatively speaking, it’s like easy listening.

16:19: I’ve spent about ten minutes standing in silence, and what have I learnt? Very little. In a weird way it’s more relaxing than watching Youtube, but it’s arguably creepier. Let’s go back to standing again. Maybe I’ll be feeling super zen??

16:23: Oh that’ll do. Not feeling super zen, but maybe a little more zen.

16:37: Let’s read through and maybe improve what I’ve done so far. Screw standing, that was dumb.

17:04: First improvements made! Now let’s read again!

17:28: Getting there, now!

17:39: Done!