diary

offline

MBA arrives tomorrow. I also am not going to be home most of tomorrow. Have #therapy + a lot of other things. Will be doing a LOT of #writing when it arrives. Will also be journaling more in a good #offline writing app. I will also import all of the documents that I have on the flash drive onto the MBA (resume, writing samples, e-books (that I wrote), etc.).

The loan discharge paperwork has been sent off and it is still under-review. If it get approved, great! I will make the arrangements at STLCC for a Fall 2018 semester. And I am expecting it to be approved, BUT, the Fall 2018 semester may be out of reach as far as deadlines go. If this happens...

...I will enroll in the EdX Intro To CS course (offered for free) through HarvardX (no, it's not the same as attending Harvard (unfortunately)). After that, #100DaysOfCode will commence. I must learn to code. One way or the other. I have the best app idea and want to build it independently. With nobody else working on it. This is a good idea, I think. It would be impossible for me to make the time to do this if I were to be enrolled at STLCC. College is the preference/priority. But I have a damn fine backup plan.

So this is where I stand right now.

Here we are Now

So, a short bloggy post because I am on a virtual keyboard.

Status:

  • Loan discharge is still in the works and I have one more form to fill out and send away on Wednesday

  • I met w/ Kevin and nothing terribly eventful was discussed. Just checking-in, I suppose.

  • I have been journaling a LOT #offline in a notebook and enjoying it immensely.

  • I am buying a MacBook Air + school supplies tomorrow evening. Cool stuff!

So, all is good in my corner of the world. Happy.

these late nights

when it is 12 AM and the road outside is absolutely vacant and all i can hear is the dull whisper of air conditioners and the crickets chirping, it is peaceful. i can think the most clearly at these hours and the Internet moves so slow, it is like i am back #offline again. Imagine every moment being like the one I just described, that is what being off the Internet for days at a time feels like.

Speaking of offline activities, i don't think i am going to go offline anytime soon and it may be that the 2-4 weeks i used to spend offline every other month or so (for two years) may be over. Yes, they are peaceful and relaxing, and nice, but, the Internet offers so much more in the ways of stimulation and communication. I do like the Internet, I just wish people would spend their time not obsessing over it like it is the re-invention of the wheel. It is portable television, phones are. Media consumption is media consumption, any way you look at it. I don't even like newspapers. And much like I made the New Years resolution to spend less time on the Internet in 2015 (yet, not truly fulfilled until 2016), I am making a “mid-year” resolution to not consume any media whatsoever within the next year. I will still reads books, and listen to music, but no magazines, newspapers, radio, television, or Internet of any kind. I just like spending my time by myself (though other PEOPLE are OK, too, just not stranger-friends from the WWW).

The thing that could make an offline stay 100% possible/semi-permanent, would be to have some sort of fireplace or outdoor chiminia (if you have ever seen one of those). That is truly the best way of killing time: having a nice, large fire to look at. It is the way people did it before the “media” was really a thing. Because nature creates it's own form of entertainment. There is nothing that cannot be found in nature that couldn't replace all the modern “conveniences” we “depend” on nowadays. It is preposterous to think that a modern-day human being couldn't live without Air BnB, online banking, a digitized address book, texting, YouTube, Facebook, or any other thing that so many people spend every waking minute consuming/using. We (humans) would be better off if there were no WWW. No phones. No desktops or laptops. Nothing. Just us and our wits. Things got done and life was easy (albeit, much slower) before the Internet occurred. I see no immediate end to the Web on the horizon, but then again with Global Warming, absolutely anything is possible (that is, if the lights even stay on).

See? I told you i think more clearly on quiet nights like this!

Be back in a bit!