2018.11.26
Random survey re: bad news (and no not a prelude to revealing anything) If there's bad news brewing so you want:
A to hear about it as soon as possible
B to postpone, "I don't wanna hear it"
C I don't have a singular answer to this
My answer
I'm a strong A. Like this morning; I know my weights up a bit after an indulgent long weekend of birthdays, thanksgiving, and hanging with bread making, beer quaffing friends, but still I wanted to weigh myself as soon as I could get a regular reading.Email me or some such if you have any thoughts.
The concept of news I'm potentially not hearing scares me more than anything I do hear. I've learned I can survive nearly anything (or at least am at peace with I will survive everything up until I don't) but "unknown unknowns" are an immeasurable threat.
I've often wondered why I picked "Bill" as the name for my extraterrestrial mascot. (See https://alienbill.com/gallery/ for the Gallery) I'm pretty sure it was because it seemed like a innocuous common name (vs, say, naming it after my Uncle or Bill Gates or whatever) but I just remembered reading a novel or two in the "Bill, The Galactic Hero" series, which probably primed me for "Bill as a comically normal name to put in an odd context". And not that the shape of Alien Bill was 100% original (the gallery goes over some likely inspirations) but now he just looks like a weirdly simplified version of Mike from Monsters, Inc.
You wouldn't want to live in a world where you can't be conned, because if you were, you would be living in a world with no trust. That's the price you pay for trust, is being conned.
i just read something like 'hey you know how long 2018 has been? we had an olympics this year and everybody forgot about it.'
and i just stared off into the distance like