Diary: Idle Days

Air Superiority

South of Savannah, GA there is a Hunter Army Airfield military base. Recently, there have been many fighter planes flying over Pooler, GA. Sometimes solo, sometimes in formation. Three or four groups often pass in succession.

Maybe they are practicing for an air show. Or maybe they are doing readiness training for voting day defense. To keep foreign powers from parachuting illegal voters in to influence our election.

Reading as Augmented Reality

I've been reading during lunch every day. Reading while eating has a natural sense of progress. I get full as I eat, the reading augments the journey - like food going into my mouth, the experience of the story goes into my brain. There is a physical counterpart to the intellectual experience.

I don't want to read a story while sitting at a library. It's too stagnant. I want to create something instead, immerse myself in something more interactive like a game. I take in music. I let a chat room scroll in the background, not really participating... just having some advancement taking place in my environment. When I can create an idea out of studying, or do this writing as I am right now, I feel I am accomplishing something.

The fiction needs to mirror the reality. Reading Outlaws while I'm in a bustling restaurant, people coming in and out from various walks of life. It feels like I'm in a tavern where a hero stops and asks for catties of beef and keep the wine pouring. I'm eating my meat to build strength while the heroes do battle and exhibit feats of strength. My reality somehow extends into the fiction realm. The story enhances what goes on in my life.

Being in a library, on the other hand turns me off from Outlaws. Not because I don't like the story, I can't get enough, but it doesn't match my reality. I'm at a small wooden desk enclosed by a personal cubicle. There's obese librarians corralled behind a larger desk. Children make loud noises and parents try to find jobs on a public computer. It's not the right story for what I'm experiencing.

Loitering Chronicles

When I know I've been at Walmart too long...