It was not easy like Sunday morning
Yeah, I went there. Woke up at 7am to the sound of the two dogs that should never be together fighting. Yeah, so blood and anger to start the morning, it was gross. So then I ate and watch a little BPL. United won yesterday, yay, and City drew, and then so did Arsenal today, way to go Spurs! It was not a terrible day to that point. Then I went for a run. My watch messed up a little bit on mile 5. No big deal, I still kept my pace. Cut the run short today though, legs were tired, foot is iffy, so I figured take it easier. This week, I don’t want to be fast and I’ll figure out miles as I go, to be fresh for Philly the following week.
So, I was just writing this and my brand new laptop powered itself off with no warning and will not power back on. Thankfully, the CMS I use automatically backs up while I write, and I am able to borrow a laptop I purchased for my mom to finish tonight’s update. Which just changed.
I’m pretty upset about this, and hopefully the company I purchased the computer from will be good with covering their product, it’s only 6 months old! I already put a multimeter to the power supply, everything looks good there. If they don’t cover it, I don’t doubt my ability to repair it myself, I just think at 6 months you should back up your major product. I mean it was not a cheap laptop, it was purpose built to do what I do with computers, audio and video editing and production. Don’t let the one shot, zero production value vlogs fool you, I simply lack all the other equipment I need at this point. Maybe one day I’ll share some of my work with you, which I have been actually paid for. While I don’t want to do it professionally anymore, unless I’m working for myself, I do enjoy making things sound really good. I never was too heavy into video editing, because I never much cared about how things look. That’s the funny thing about communication theory, they say people care more about how the message looks, than what is actually said (i.e. what they hear). I think that may be part of the problem we have.
I get the wiring, I get the evolutionary drive for things to look good, look safe, look strong, things like that. It makes sense, when we’re living in caves, in sparse population groups, and there is a real danger of death and possibly extinction. Quickly judging things based on what it looks like is wonderful, sensible strategy for survival in a world where you’re lucky if you make it past 35 years. But that’s not the world we live in anymore, yet we still allow ourselves to work off the same instincts. They just don’t work in the modern world however. I was never bothered by how things look. I’m always looking past that.
Not to say I don’t enjoy things that look nice, I just don’t give nice looking people or things any more or less credence in their message, I don’t trust “nice” looking stuff over “ugly” stuff. I wave at everyone, I say hi to everyone, I listen to everyone, regardless. What those people look like doesn’t determine if I agree, or am moved by what they say. Some of the most terrible people I’ve met in life have been some of the “best looking” people as well, just an observation.
With that I’m going to bed, there will be no run tomorrow, I need to recuperate, and hit the road on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday like normal. I really hope I can hold up the pace two weeks from now. It is going to be a big challenge. Have fun everyone, keep running, because if Gil can run, then so can you!
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