Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Take care, my friends and family in Florida. ❤

Thoughts Before Bed

I was working on a video for our riffing group that used scenes from the last section of 2001, where Dave Bowman is the only human alive on a big ship orbiting Jupiter. Kubrick and Doug Trumbull really get across the absolute solitude he's in without really ever showing him.

I enjoy solitude. It's the only time I feel like my defenses are down and all the masks are off. It's made me very much a recluse, although not a shut in. I go out, participate in society, I've become incredibly public this last year. I like going out and doing stuff. But at the end of the day, I get to be one person alone in this apartment that's too big for me. And while I feel that solitude that Dave Bowman had out there all alone, I enjoy it.

I'm likely going to lose it before too long asI lose the apartment. And while I do enjoy living with Crystal and Lissa, I find that I'm already missing that solitude. They give me my space, absolutely, and I've always appreciated that. But I enjoy the real solitude I have here.

One of the things I'm hoping is that VR can deliver that feeling. Big spaces just for me. All contained in a little headset. I already have an apartment in VR, as well as a lonely cabin. I may try to rebuild this place, or even better, the house I was going to build in Texas before the land was sold.

Maybe a big old spaceship orbiting Jupiter like Dave Bowman.

Current mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPg5LjGYz8

#vaguebooking #canttalkaboutit

Whew. Between two meetings, a job assessment a sudden aurora and an early bedtime for another meeting in the morning, I've gotten nothing at all done.

Aurora was nice, though. :)

For those of you unable to see the Northern Lights, just pop in a copy of Super Street Fighter II Turbo and choose the England Stage. You're all set!

Once in a lifetime event twice in a year? I'm there.

This hurt my head. IN A GOOD WAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqn9rE0Wvw

Thoughts Before Bed

When I was very little, mirrors were magical portals into other worlds. Tilted mirrors at the shoe store were a way into a world that was mirror imaged. And two mirrors facing each other went into dark places....

So I keep forgetting to make my dinners for this week due to doing other things, so I've been raiding my emergency food since I need to burn it off.

First time I've ever seen one of these in a (civilian) MRE. Like a big thick cracker.

::sigh::

So there's a YouTube channel I watch about aviation stuff that I really like. The host explains things really well, calls out videos designed to panic you about flying, and is a good source of info.

He just did a video about a woman kicked off a plane for not using the flight attendant's pronouns.

While he defends the flight attendant, he does so from a policy point of view of "it's more efficient to let the passenger go than the flight attendant." But more telling, he says things like "made up pronouns" and "they decided to use pronouns that weren't the real ones" and various other "bogus pronouns."

Yeah, not watching anymore.