Summer Blog Post - #1

So the first real week of Summer is over. Not with an astounding sense of accomplishment and moving forward, but more like a dry fart.

The week started fine. I had written a blog post about this very blog post, then wrote another blog post about video games. But I also didn't. I got 39 games in when I fat-thumbed a key and lost hours of work in writing. I was too stupid to save it in a word document. Silly me. I'm still upset over that.

On Monday, I began my Summer of constant bike rides. It was a wonderful time being out amongst the newly born and loudly singing cicadas of brood XIV. It looked like a nice start to the Summer. I had made myself for lunch some Japanese curry, and sat alone in my room with the windows opened. Like some kind of strange creature of a forgotten era, I was able to eat my food without a screen shoving a YouTube video commentating on something I don't actually care about to avoid having any kind of thoughts whilst eating. I just sat, thought about life, and listened to the cicadas. Watching them fly between the trees outside.

Tuesday felt wonderful. I woke up and got all my self-assigned chores done for the day. I cleaned the house from top-to-bottom, did my laundry, prepared myself a couple days worth of lunch, and a few other things. I got on my bike and rode about six miles, half way through my daily route.

Unfortunately, right-then-and-there did my back tire blow out. This ironically is after I was talking to my father the night previously about how those tires worried me, him even calling them old but probably okay. I didn't know if I wanted to walk home with a bike, as anyone and everyone knows how annoying it is to pull a bike along when walking. Instead I got a hold of my partner and he came to pick me up. He treated us to McDonald's because he had to leave for work soon after picking me up.

Wednesday came and I thought about what I could do to make up for my bike, as I'm on low funds and will need to manage them until August comes around. Do I walk? I guess, but that won't burn the calories I desire like biking does. I could do calisthenics? Probably. That and walking might be my go too, but what sours that is one of my Tuesday chores was buying my partner a bike I had been promising him for a year now. We were to ride our bikes together all Summer, but mine broke the day I bought his. More irony.

Thursday was a day like any other, I don't remember it.

Same with most of Friday. I decided to practice drawing and got a couple pictures out. I feel good about them, somewhat. As good as an artist realistically can feel about their own work, which isn't very high. At night, I got around to beginning the watch party for my college club over Discord. We watched most of Genshiken Nidaime, and it seemed to go over well. My partner especially loved it and its commentary on LGBTQ+ topics.

Saturday I played Team Fortress 2 with a friend for a couple hours. It was a wonderful time. We were relaxed and listening to music together, playing together. Felt like it did back in 2013. Soon after we split ways and my partner came over. He brought Sheetz for dinner since I had finished my week of food prep. We then got Dairy Queen (I got a S'mores Blizzard. Yum!) and went for a walk through the local nature park. We came home and got in bed, and I watched a couple episodes of Code Lyoko.

Sunday we had both woken up and taken a shower. It has been raining all day. I made a new friend who added my from the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass application, NetPass. They're from Thailand and very nice. We had a good long conversation. We went to the movies and watched the new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme. It was alright. Like the rest of his work, you kinda know where it goes by not knowing where it goes. They're all shot very similar, yadda-yadda, I already went on with this conversation earlier to my partner so I don't care to go on it again. 6.5/10. I wasn't surprised but also slightly disappointed. Not sure by what, but something in there. Tonight I'll be doing a simple dinner of chicken and pasta, hoping to draw more, and we might watch a movie in bed. If not that, I'll keep watching Code Lyoko.

It felt like any other week of my life. Nothing massive, the downers are more inside my head than the uppers. I'm very upset that my bike broke on the second day of Summer, and I can't really afford to get it repaired. Oh well, it happens.

For the song recommendation this week it will be the 2009 RAWsession Sugar Ray cover of Kid Kudi's "Day 'N' Night". (YouTube link to the video recording here.)