No car. I no longer have one, my father was concerned, but I am not. In the summer I rode my bike everywhere and I did not need a car. I carried less groceries and had to go more often, which is a good thing because it limited what I would buy to what I could carry, however you can pack a lot of horrible food in a backpack. I had to do my laundry more often and that was also a good thing, because sometimes I did not have a full load and in order to make one I was washing some things I would not have washed as often, more often, like my bed sheets. When I had a car, my parents always asked me to come out to their house just because, now they never ask me out. Which is a mixed blessing. I like my parents, but they use guilt as well as any other parent (typically parents use guilt without knowing that they are, it must be a sapient feature of parenthood). They have not been asking me so I have been seeing them less often.
It has been snowing a lot more than a typical Winter in Boonieland. Actually 2013 has been a wet year; it rained and snowed 25% more rain than the typical average year, recently our weather has been on the dry side, so it seems like more. So the down side is that we have a lot more snow than recent years. It snows almost every day and there is a large snow pack everywhere. Right now we have two feet of snow on the ground, 60cm, and that is a reduction after the melt we had for about a week, including rain. Lots of rain. What does this mean for me with no car? Nothing: I bought a winter bike. Truthfully it cost me $2000, but that roughly equalled the savings that I got from not having a car, not gas because I rarely went anywhere, but insurance and unexpected repair bills which usually resulted in a bill for $1000 each event. Brakes, muffler, some little part that no-one but a mechanic knows about, are all expensive things.
Renting a car to go to Big Smoke for the weekend in the summer cost a bit, about $150 or so, and getting a bus ticket and other transit costs can add up to $130 per round trip, but are less versatile, however I have time to spend this time of year. I am off this time of year for about three months, which is not very fun and I am not sure that it balances out the rush of activity in the spring. This last year I work just under 1900 hours in 40 weeks, which is about what your typical wage slave works in a whole year. My boss gave me a bonus this year. Typically if you make it to the Christmas break he gives you a bonus, however this year he changed the policy. This year if you had testicles you got a bonus. He called in someone who had been laid off for a month and gave them a bonus too. Testicular challenged employees were not called in and given a bonus too.
I have been laid off now for a few weeks and I have not been bored yet. Why? I have been going to Big Smoke a bit. My Friend in Big Smoke has been laid off for a few months now and he wants me down there, for a number of reasons. One because he needs distraction, because being out of work is difficult. His wife is not the sole wage earner and there is some conflict there and me being there will defuse it a little bit. Secondly, but not in importance, their eldest is having some difficulties in Math in school. He is only in grade 1, but he has already been identified. I pointed out what they already knew, that their son was a boy and boys tend to work differently than girls. ADD/HD should not be jumped to immediately. They are working with him after school which is something that I know will pay off later on no matter what, but still the pressure is on. I said that before anything like diagnosis occurs time should be spent letting him be a boy. Teachers are trained in the discipline of metacognition, that is thinking how to think, but teachers these days are almost always women and women do not know how boys think because it is alien to them; school is built for girls, sit down, don't move, soak up what I say. Boys are doers and need to do the thing that they are learning, so school is difficult.
The third reason is they like me, for some unknown reason. All of them like me. Their children love me. If my friend suggest a threesome, I will have to say no, but it is almost like that.
I have been playing Star Wars the Old Republic, an online role playing game MMORPG to be exact. And I have been reading, not just books. I have been reading and watching YouTube videos by Creationist who are calling Atheists immoral and stupid, meanwhile claiming that the world is 6000 years old and denying Evolution. I am going to get blocked soon, but that is what these people do to people who can form a thought that counters what they are saying. I need to do this because I am not going to allow such thinking a pass anymore. To many people I know and love have been sucked into this horrible way of thinking and it needs to stop. I will lose friends, but either way I will not accept people spreading ignorance.
I am listening to podcasts. Lots of podcasts. I am having some difficulty on this front because I like to do something at the same time. I can't just listen to stuff. If I just listen, will drift off. I need to be doing something else, but a lot of the things I can do mean I won't be listening to the podcast. I can't read and listen, I can't play Star Wars, I can't sleep, I can't do nothing. I can play Civilization though. But I have been bored with that game recently. Still I find that I can eat up about ten hours of podcasts a week. I also listen to the Radio, CBC online app, let's me hear the news and current events and lets me listen to the Current, which is a great current events documentary that lasts for 90 minutes each day. I find that it is thought provoking and I want to write about everything that they say; my own two cents.
There may be a booty call in the future. I don't think it will come into fruition. For the second time the conversation has stopped. I think it is her, she needs to meet and then we will go from there, provided that we actually meet. Conversation is necessary to keep me in her mind to think of me when she is available. That is the problem. The is a lack of dating opportunities in this town. There are a number of dating profiles, but I have been discovering their short falls. PoF is one, it is free so good if you are on a budget, but bad because there is no trick to it. Also I have detected its lie. When you search last joined sorting you get an accurate listing, but you can't tell when they joined. When you select last online, to get a listing of active profiles you get a different list every time, which if you just then select the first one, you think good, but if you log on at 3am and do ten consecutive searches you should expect similar results, but instead you get ten random listings. That means many of the profiles could have been created and abandoned five years ago and might show up in the most recently on list. Which means I could write a long detailed message touching on points from their profile and they may never read it, because they had gotten married in the meantime. OkCupid is far superior in this respect, but disheartening because selection is so poor. I think in my area there are two people and they are looking for younger people, a lot younger. So I have to just not look and accept dying alone.
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