20190102

Wed Jan 2 09:22:52 EST 2019 Slept from ten-thirty to seven-thirty. Woke briefly once in the night. High of thirty-four today. Chance of "wintery mix" today, especially after 5 PM. Vacation is over. Back at work. Work: - Turn off email and voicemail out-of-office messages Done. - Catch up on tickets Done. - Order replacement M426fdn printer for KWL Done. - Review invoices Done. - Buy lunch groceries Done. Apparently not much happened while I was on vacation. No disasters, but Scott wasn't very ambitious with getting stuff done. No time for a lunch walk, though I did wander around Meijer for a while. Pretty calm, for my first day back after a long vacation. Home: - Do a creative thing Done. `~/repo/huntlinks` Worked a little late. Stopped to buy gas on my way home. Fifteen-minute walk in the dark, in the freezing rain. https://www.c82.net/euclid/ https://thecreativeindependent.com/weekends/drawing-is-the-best-videogame-by-jeffrey-alan-scudder/ > I borrowed the [Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening] cartridge from a friend at school and it didn't come with any instructions or box, so I had no peamble to the experience. Link begins the game in a sea town after washing ashore from a lightning storm and being taken in by a girl. I spent the next month of my life frolicking around this early zone. Link could talk with citizens to experience their conversational loops, toy with chickens, and enter the library to read books about foreign places. The pictures were good, and the music was calm. This is all I thought there was, and I loved it! A small and pleasant place to go and play, not unlike my own neighborhood. > My friend asked me one day at school if I had found Link's sword yet. I didn't understand what he was talking about, so I went home and started searching. I eventually found teh sword by the beach near the shipwreck. I tore through the rest of the cartridge in a week, all the while having the mind-blowing realization that the little area I had been playing in for so long was only a tiny fraction of what the game had to offer. > I was captivated by Gameboy games because I thought they were endless. As I grew up I beat them and realized their boundaries. Then, I became interested in drawing as a way to find the endlessness I sought all along. https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/ Started watching Adam Ruins Everything. Nothing, so far, I didn't know before but entertainingly presented. "Stranger danger!" Ha. Nice that they provide citations and quote experts. Bruce Schneier! I got in fight with Scott a few months ago about jaywalking; he didn't believe me. https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAnecdotes/comments/abhybs/even_in_his_seventies_newton_knight_was_no_man_to/ > As Tom Knight tells the story, Newton had just attended Sunday services near his home with Tom and one of his younger brothers when some local toughs accosted them. > A melee ensued, as men windmilled their fists at one another and rolled on the ground. As they churned in the dust, the attacker lashed out with a boot and caught Newton squarely in the shin, peeling off some of his skin. > Newton didn’t utter a cry. Instead he reacted silently. There was a glitter of metal and an almost imperceptible wave of his hand, and an instant later the man was gurgling from his throat and covered in his own blood. Newton sheathed his knife, the fight over. Newton said, "He would learn him that it was Newt Knight he was kicking." > Newton had slashed the man’s throat – if he’d have cut an eighth of an inch deeper, the man would have been dead. As it was, he wounded the victim so badly a doctor had to be summoned to stop the bleeding, and the man would be in bed or a month. > "So my father said it looked to him like it was a free for all fight and he was old and had been crippled up and he just did not feel like being kicked about by anyone and especially by a big young man," Tom Knight related. Servings: grains 8/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 0/2, meat 2/3, nuts 1/0.5 Breakfast: carrots, spinach, tomato, banana, orange, two eggs, coffee Lunch: donuts, apple, tomato, coffee Dinner: beer, pita, hummus, orange 143/87

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