I saw your Organism (a week in the life #2)
April 16, 2020 11:44 am Leave your thoughtsNow send me Bitcoin.
“A week in the life,” posts are incidental musings, pictures, memes I mined and things I’ve bought. Why? Because it’s content and nothing I wrote for today made the cut. Welp, enjoy!
Going to work my slave gig, everything in the station is like we are going to all die.
Trust me, the least of your worries is getting Corona-d from a drink fountain in this place. I’d be more inclined to bet on Hep B or some kind of scabies.
There are announcements stating that “In line with the Covid-19 precautions we ask you to remain 1.5 metres from each other at all times.” The announcements were recorded by someone with a very heavy Indian accent. With all the noise and hustle and bustle, it took me at least three repetitions to understand what it said. The good thing is that there are barely any people around so there is no queue to board the escalator, there is no line to wait to get onto a train or into an elevator so you don’t have to worry about being too near anyone.
The trains have been cut, running only every half an hour (I believe?) and this was done because not enough people were using the public transport but yet they have signs inside the train instructing everyone to stay 1.5metres apart. Even though more people will be in one train car now. Like many things regarding the Corona Boogeyman, the instructions are nonsensical.
Things I like about it:
There are finally people wiping down escalator handles and touch screens with disinfectant.
IMO this should be done anyway after peak hour or randomly through the day at busy stations.
A limit smaller than the one stated inside elevators. At the moment only two people are allowed in some elevators I have been in. Usually the max is 36 or something written on the panel inside and people had to wait a long time to even be able to squeeze in one.
You Got Game?
I bought (and returned) an indie game I didn’t like. My personal opinion on Convenience Store was that it gave me a headache and was wasting too much of my time with no running feature so your character is trudging along to do anything. I like indie weird games and will usually give anything a try if I’m not in the mood for fast-paced shoot-em-ups but I’m sorry to say, this one didn’t do it for me. Also, the images are scary;
This looks like me when you come to my house.
I also bought a Jurassic Park game, the type where you construct buildings and then raise dinosaurs and run a park that you take insurance out on for storm damage etc. The only problem was it wouldn’t let me move onto new stuff until I placed paths exactly right and watched a lot of cut scene crap. Then I was made aware that you had to buy new dinosaurs if you didn’t want to raise the three that came with the game, you had to pay for and download a “herbivore pack” and “carnivore pack.” It wasn’t for me. Back to Shane and Star Dew Valley I go. LOL!
I Saw Your Organism!
Today was my morning off and I slept in. When I woke up, I had a few panicked messages from a friend. They were about spam which claimed their phone camera was turned on remotely and they were seen doing naughty things. They were now being told they had to send thousands of dollars of bitcoin to an address. OH, and the blackmailer had a special code so they could tell when their email was read and the countdown was on. 😉
I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror, next.
Allow me to send you my own experience with this one:
In my life online, spam has gone from “hot, sexy girls in your area” to “penis enlargement pills!” to the saddest of all…Spam about finding jobs in your area and being able to make millions…
And now to using people’s perversions or private business to get digital currency. Ah, how times change.
But it’s not all bad,
this week I did manage to work on revising Red Cowboys. These notes are common. I do nerdily research if the nomenclature is still relevant and acceptable in the grammatical context it’s placed in. With no one crammed next to me in a tin can on the way to my slave gig, I can write and make notes now. It’s on its way. My health has picked up a little and we are back in business. Red Cowboys is coming…I promise. One day I may write about the things that stopped me keeping on track with this book but right now, all I can say is that it’s coming and Trent Starr has sexyface.
Finally,
Take the time to see something you don’t usually.I’ve said it before…you see flowers while you’re speeding past trying not to be late for your appointment. But you didn’t see them.
I saw a flower in my mum’s garden the other day.
Here it is. No filter. Why this is a cool pic that stands out in my week filled with selfies/random pics of playgrounds and cats is because it was a hard day. This week has been…hard…and I got to stop for a minute and try to appreciate something I would have just walk past and never had the opportunity to know existed. My mum’s garden is awesome.
