I recently moved to a new place in the same town, which is probably the best way to move. I've come to this truth by the process of elimination. Here are all the 'ways to move', with their ranking indicated by the largeness of the heading:

ACROSS THE COUNTRY

A move across the country is jarring. You shed the people you knew, and the experiences you like. Your comfort zone is gone, which is a good thing! You know it's a good thing. I know it's a good thing. There are birdsongs you took for granted, and you won't remember until a couple years later. It takes a lot of energy and willpower to insist to yourself that it's a good thing that you left the people that you know. The new people are also equally very cool. The grooves etched into your brain will seem insurmountable for awhile.

A MOVE ACROSS THE HALLWAY

Probably the funniest way to move. It is kind of inconveniencing, but it is a good contender for a top tier move. It is, unfortunately, plagued with how it is not impactful enough to warrant a significant enough shake up to really alter the axioms you base your life decisions on. Let me rephrase-- it doesn't really mean jackshit, it's just for the economics. Everything is the same color, the fans are still the same. The differences are meaningless quirks, day to day issues that can be thrown at maintenance or forgotten until move-out (oops!). It's a cosmic joke, but funny.

DOWNWARDS, IN THE 3RD DIMENSION

I shouldn't have been living by myself, and I should have been honest with what was going on. 

NEW PLACE IN THE SAME TOWN

The people I know and am getting to love are still the same people! That's awesome, and I really enjoy that, genuinely. I'm not picking up and having to get totally new routines yet; and actually I'm closer to the places of interest I want to be at. The location is way better. And best of all, the home actually feels like a home. This is true Midwestern heritage, and I'm proud to be a real Minnesotan (even though I'm a transplant). It also beats out on the move across the hallway, in that the move is big enough to shake up my life and warrant a change in my lifestyle.

I want to go outside a lot more, and I want to do the things that I actually care about, to figure out who I am. I should've probably been doing this the whole time. I really like reading and writing, and I need practice. This is really where the story begins. 

A lot of people like to claim that Day 1 of their new life is the big deal. I like to claim that, very often. Whether it's a new plan, or a new diet, or a new routine, I feel like it's very easy to fall into the trap of proudly proclaiming to yourself that it is now Day 1 of your new life. This proclamation of course happens after you accomplish an otherworldly achievement such as emptying out your weird chick-fil-a milkshake to make sure it didn't get weird and gross and moldy like the last cup of weird (non-conforming to the usual can, bottle, etc) liquid. You feel fucking accomplished. BANG! This shit is for sure gonna carry into tomorrow, and the next day.

Today is now Day 2, and the vibe is different. We aren't here to seize the day, we're here to make progress one day at a time. I found earlier that I was tempted to declare that TODAY, in fact was Day 1. but are you kidding me? it's clearly day 2, because i said it was Day 1 yesterday (as in the first day working since we moved into the new place). why was i so hesitant to just be confident that it was day 2?

i think nowadays, it's easy to lie to yourself a little bit. maybe the economy isn't that bad. maybe the world isn't being ran by clowns. maybe the products aren't getting more expensive because i try to isolate and live in a cyberworld. there's a WORLD HAPPENING OUT THERE that i'm disconnecting from because it SUCKS and there's OPTIMISM IN THE COMPUTER! 

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let's take a beat. have you played puck with your friends recently? 

this could be you

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you have to lie to yourself a little these days, so it almost became a little easy to lie to yourself that today was the new day 1. it's an exercise in honesty to admit that things today didn't go the way you liked, and that there are mistakes to be learned from. the first iteration of the cloffice is put together, ready to go.

it feels like such an accomplishment to know i have a desk out there, waiting to be used. i will make sure to sit there, at my chair, hopefully on my new wifi (no promises there!) and press the submit button for this.

day 2 is about the little wins. day 2 is about eating pizza twice, because we both wanted pizza today, and that's awesome. we all had a ton of pizza, and my stomach feels a little weird but we found the lactase just in time. it feels like being a kid again, and it hurts a little bit. oh no!

day 2 is about gratitude, and recognizing that sometimes you have to take a first step to realize you can start running after. i was completely ready to give up on cloffice building, and look at us!

i'm signing off. see you all in day 2 guys!

honorable mentions, mishaps, little stubs that didn't fit anywhere

today i spent way too much time on reddit talking about sang bin jeong and i like really really need to chill out lol. i could be a kpop person if i don't chill out lol NOOOO i need a mood stabilizer </3

[WHAT I DO IS COOL AS FUCK. the world wide web is a universally agreed on method to share information between people, which is why the original web users all used it to write posts just like this one. they wanted to share facts of life, information about themselves. comments on things, or knowledge. we wanted to connect knowledge all around the world, in many dimensions (across time, space, et cetera). the advantage is all in the linkage.

AI has come to do the linkage for us. the way to TRULY reject AI? is to do the linkage ourselves. is to congregate ourselves to the domains where likeminded, REAL, users can discuss topics that matter. 

AND AS SUCH! it is VERY COOL That at my job, i get to be paid to help contribute to this world wide web of information and knowledge. unfortunately, i have been taking it a little bit too for granted lately. many years ago, the founders of the internet hopefully envisioned something like this?

the fact that there was ever money in the internet is disgusting. it's so, horribly, thoroughly disgusting. no one should try to make money from the internet, in any way that is not compensating them for the work they do to contribute to the standing of the internet as its own entity. the key component of this entity is that it is independent of any of its owners. i can't think of the word here so im gonna keep talking around it i used the word statehood earlier? It is a powers that be. I give up ]

(i wish there was a way to link this video without you being sold stuff. sorry!)