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Surrealism / Kansuke Yamamoto/ Untitled (Two Women)

OK: Maybe Word has some merit. It really always has, but I so dislike the colossus of Redmond that even saying so pains me. In the so-very long ago, the company I worked for rented space in Microsoft Park. About two blocks away from the then-famous volleyball courts. I hung out with a couple of their code monkeys and heard stories of the venality and the arrogance of the company and decided at that point that I wasn’t sure I could ever hang with Billy-boy. When another of my friends explained to me the origin of DOS and Gate’s wholehearted and completely legal fraud of IBM (I actually kinda respected him for this until he became what he destroyed). I tried to not use anything MS. Hence my long-term Apple, then Linux use. Now I have just given up, I have decided that moral purity isn’t all that it is cracked up to be and I just want something that talks to most people.

I am trying on writing in the evening when I get home. Not at all certain that I am fond of the change yet, but making decisions without at least giving the option a decent chance usually gets me nowhere. So todays little piece of work is being written while staring out at a not-all-that-great sunset and a backlit overcast cloud layer.

I am seriously thinking about trying to find a different slot to weather out the last days of the storm times and maybe, just maybe, get a little bit of my retirement under my belt before changes occur. All of this might be a pipe dream, but trying to plan for an economic collapse is kinda like planning for a asteroid striking the earth, your plans might be solid and well thought-out, but if the asteroid lands on you, you are still fucked.

Now I am up the next morning. Still need to calibrate my sleep schedule. I get up early and I do sleep pretty well, so I want to go to bed early. I seem comfortable with eight hours, but nine sure seems better.