My watch battery started to slow so I went into the indian owned store at the mall. The sales representative almost broke my watch trying to install the new battery while I was looking around the store for novelties. Most times you will find old video games and electronics that they keep for YEARS at the same price. I never understand how you can have a open box Sega Saturn on sale for nearly 23 years after it was released and still be trying to sell it for 200 USD. The box looks like they its been used for just as long but I know that is not the case because it is too high up on the shelves.
I probably should just buy a whole new watch. A nice simpler watch with a black face and white hands. Maybe that is why I am not in the retail business because if I had an item on the shelf for 15 to 20 years I would be looking to give it away to the first person that showed the slightest interest. New video games are expensive and they do not last long enough to be worth the cost.
I will definitely need some front shocks for my car really soon. It is a certainty and we all know that all the good roads have speed traps around the corner. I am still thinking about writing that "how to drive in Jamaica" article because there has been a rise in the number of people parking on blind corners.
Sometimes being in software development really rocks my boat to the point where it tips over and crashes on the rocks on the sea flour. MIS/ICT is not a magic carpet school bus ride. There is more ignorance than there is knowledge. They say sometimes you have to live and let die but I am not high enough to stay high all the time. It takes a whole lot of time and effort to get things going and when things do not work the way you expect you either have to find a quick solution. Or just hope the ugly expensive ducklings die quietly.
I am not easily impressed. In fact it might be easier to simply avoid even trying. It will turn out better in the long run. I straddle several worlds at the same time. I am the laziest, most productive time waster you could probably ever know. If you ask me I would tell you that you are wasting your time with a quickness that would help me avoid wasting my own time telling you that you are wasting your time. And at the same time I might say that you could get better if you keep at it. But right now I am not so sure it isnt trash.
I do not know if pain is a path to more pleasure. That sounds like someone trying to explain away life's tragedies. It is better to embrace them. My general point is that if and when a tree falls in the forest we as human beings will certainly get crushed. Some of us will survive and move to stand under another tree, and another and another. Trees will even grow up and fall. Until in the end we all are standing under so many trees that any tree in the forest that falls will certainly fall on someone's head. Why? Because we hate standing in the sun.
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I am always moving toward a simpler way of life. There is no need to rush to the top of the pile of failure. I like to get things done as efficiently as possible. I do not see the point of doing anything if you are not actively seeking a better way to do it. I want more out of less. An old motto I used regularly was "functionality over design, simplicity over art". There is a tonne of over engineered technology out there of late that is doing nothing more than wasting your time.
One day when I was high school I bought 2 bun and cheese just to see what it felt like. On 99% of the days I could only afford to buy one but on that day I had managed to amass enough cash to buy two. Buy 2 bun and cheese was a long time dream of mind at the time but I never really got around to it until that day. I am not sure how it sprang into my head but I finally did it. Even the shop keeper was puzzled because if you buy 2 buns you probably need 2 drinks as well. Inflating your expenses in lock step with your income. But this one not that kind of day.
I returned to the safety of my class room and ate them both in full view of a small audience. If you are going to splurge you might as well splurge out in the open - I figured. I was always a meticulous saver. "Waste not, want not" was the old saying. But my love of bun and cheese compelled me into this little experiment. By the time I was done I came to the conclusion that 2 bun and cheese does not really make you twice as happy at the end of the day. It was however a memorable experience which everyone should try at some point in their life.
Some times people ask me what I have been up to all this time as if they are not aware that I have a whole website full of text and pictures. The most I can reply to the question is that mi dey ya, crossing the perpetual road of life, riding my breaks, hoping not to get hit by a drunk driver. People blindly strive to be their best self at all costs (or worse yet the self that other people want them to be) even if it will cost someone else discomfort. Education and agriculture. Knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
I have to keep in the back of my head that no matter how people try they might not be able to keep up with my own attention span. People eventually revert back to their prior natural base ground instincts, desires and feelings before loneliness will break my heart please send me a post card darling, send me a post card now. Only the strong survive.
I purposely try to reduce my influence on any person one I meet. I feel that I might derail their destiny to a point where they will depend on me to teach a man to fish. Kingston life not easy. Kingston takes but it rarely gives. Learn to love and be kind. The unavoidable is unavoidable but sometimes you throw a stone into the lake and the ripples reverberate through time and space in ways which are impossible to calculate.
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The world is filled with so much wonder that there is no real way to appreciate it all. There is just too much, too many worlds. There is no way to experience it all. Some times you just have to sit back and let it all pass you by or the fear of missing out will hold you hostage forever. All you can really do is try to play your little part in this whole mess of a world. So that at the end of the day you can pull a clean sheet of paper out of your pocket and write down all you have achieved and all you have seen.
I am hesitant when it comes to certain things. My life is not a destination which I hope to reach. I avoid spending more than I earn. I try not to waste limited resources. I go to great lengths to avoid choas and uncertainty. I have seen the edge of the cliff, the rocks below and the sky above with no parachute. I am not scrolling now a list of old videos. The time is now. I must make new stuff. I must be wiser than I was yesterday. What does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his own soul?
There are some things that are obvious traps like standing in short grass in a wide field. Whether you know it or not you only have your self to blame if you fall into them without reading the manual or at least preparing yourself for the pain that will certainly come along. The best you can do is take each day as it comes and try not to kill anybody while you barrel down the road of life at a 100 miles an hour. We are all stars now, in the dope show.