Ten years younger would make me 61

← Back Since starting working full time, I’ve been getting up pretty early even on weekends. Well, now that I think about it again, this is my second weekend since real full-time work commenced. Lol. Knocked off work yesterday a bit late. Partly because I came in late in the morning (almost everyday, sigh), but partly because I wanted to finish what I was doing. But I gave up in the end. It had something to do with some return type of Feathersjs’s hooks. I learnt my lesson before, that it’s better to give up sometimes. Even if I did make that work yesterday, I wouldn’t have really learnt anything. With the time clocking, and me wanting to ‘just get it wokring’, I’m just trying different things, just stabbing in the dark. If it works, what do I get? Nothing. ...

February 26, 2022 · jshji

the motion and the dare

← Back Hey, been a while. I read a good paragraph: I’m not in a contest with anybody, have no thoughts about immortality, don’t give a damn about it. It’s the ACTION while you’re alive. The gate springing open in the sunlight, the horses plunging through the light, all the jocks, brave little devils in their bright silks, going for it, doing it. The glory is in the motion and the dare. Death be damned. It’s today and today and today. Yes. ...

February 22, 2022 · jshji

Bukowski quote

← Back All right, you tell me something useful. Be a lawyer? A doctor? A congressman? That’s crap too. They think it isn’t crap but it is. They are locked into a system and they can’t get out. And almost everybody is not very good at what they do. It doesn’t matter, they are in the safe cocoon. from The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship by C. Bukowski

January 27, 2022 · jshji