Diary

A transgression

I went over my Data plan limit this morning.

Found a bench in Walmart next to a vending machine and plugged in. Was there for about 2 hours.

No internet so I used my mobile phone tethering feature to send internet from my phone to my laptop.
I had about 1.5 gigs of data left in the shared quota. Seeing as it's the last day to use it, I figured might as well use it up. Doubted that I could use that much data in a day.

How quickly I was wrong. In an hour, I used 1.6 gigs just browsing images and being in a chat room. How is that possible?

Piano

At the 21c Libray, there was a sign on a piano that read: "If you know how to play, you are welcome to". So I ignored the sign, went ahead and played anyways.

I learned lessons as a kid, but haven't practiced since I was 12 years old. I forget how to coordinate my left hand into the action, so my right hand did most of the talking. I played whatever notes came to mind or were in my heart. It was fun and spiritually liberating to release my emotions over the keys.

Dressing Room Selfies

I returned some unopened journals to TJ Maxx today. Since they don't sell any food, the $26 store credit they gave me back seemed useless. But then I remembered how cold it was at night, and thought I ought to purchase thermal sleepwear.

I did some apparel modeling in front of the dressing room mirror. Trying on clothes was fun. It reminds me how fortunate I am to have quality clothes, and to be able to buy something new whenever I need it.

Now all I need is an agent, some hair, a make-up team, swag, 50 lbs of muscle, and a bitchin' tattoo. I'll launch a modeling career. Calvin Klein billboard, here I come!

Be strong

Best. Library. Ever.

Pooblik Lyeberrie of tha Foochur! 

Call, write, Snapchat your local governor, statesman, or member of parliament and demand to have your obsolete library immediately bulldozed, and replaced with an exact replica of this one!

Library 21C (Pikes Peak Library District)
1175 Chapel Hills Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Amenities

It has a concert hall with a piano.

Food for Thought

Absence is useful.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. Verse 11. trans David Hinton.

I have a satirical view of society that lends a beautiful interpretation to the lines:

Presence gives things their value
but absence makes them work

The logical structure of the couplet can be simplified as a parallelism or a dichotomy:

Presence -> value
absence -> work

But I think of the concept more like this:

Presence -> absence -> Work -> value

Really, the value lies all within the work. Therefore creating absence is the real value. The valuable thing itself does no work, and as such, has no real value. Gold rings, fashionable clothing, luxury accommodation... produces no worth.

But to maintain an absence, a perceived value must be present and withheld. Their purpose serves to attract people to a life of useless wealth, and ironically the people must work and be useful in their attempt to attain this presence.

I would say instead:

Work gives life value
but presence creates absence

The Science of Staying Alive in a Freezer

The cold is real.

- How cold is it, Jonathan?

7 F outside

Diary with Pictures

Not much content going on today. I found a library at the University of Colorado: Colorado Springs (UCCS) - two 'Colorado's, I know. Just been drunk on high-speed WiFi (this university had guest access!), looking at and uploading dirty pictures. Lovin' this place!

UCCS library

Kids are on winter break, so nobody was at the library. I've never been in an university library this empty. There was so much territory available to me. I wanted to use ALL the group study rooms, all at the same time!

How amazing does this library lounge look? 

The sign on the table says reserved for the women's basketball team,
I suppose because NCAA sports pay the bills.

I know right? It's like a ski chateau with a mountain view.