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Tensions are running high at the local park.
I met one of my buddies there, some sort of experimental poet and I told him about a story I`d written about a dog who lived in a detached house and then moved to a terrace and thought that all the terraced houses were a single house. He was intrigued. He asked for a copy so I printed it on my inkjet. But it was really a .gmi thing and I had difficulty printing from the gemini browser in the command line. I wish I had those kind of powers! I got there in the end.
Anyway I have three bins. I keep the bins in the back yard but drag them through the living room for bin day – and then back. Because it`s a terrace. Supposedly you have insulation built-in at the sides, I guess the sides are receiving heat from next door in winter. I`ve noticed this in the tiny room under the stairs. That space is quite utilitarian. I was rooting around for a bag or something yesterday and items were falling on top of me. Gravity again. I decided that I have to remove what I can from there. Everything ends up on the floor.
There are a few other corners that I have to clear out. I have to clear the shed out. I put one item from the shed in the bin today. I forget what I`m doing but get there in the end. In the park and everywhere there are billions of bugs, worms, all sorts of things, and it makes me think that I`m blessed to be a person in my time on earth. Statistically speaking, it must be like winning the lottery.
There is a cell tower disguised as a tree in a woodland compound owned by the U.S.A. govt. in the local park. I guess it spies on civilians. Perhaps it `spoofs` networks. My buddy Declan reckons they use it to spy on the British. Sure, the Americans spy on the British but the diplomats would be careful on the phone. But Ireland is full of radical Islamists. The Taliban does their training in the hills to the south of Dublin. I suppose each phone gives off a signature. I don`t know much about it. But I put mine on airplane mode as I pass near it. Heck, there used to be a joke that gemini was North Korean tech; that could have put us on the Pentagon`s radar.
I heard on the radio about how some of the population are reluctant to get the experimental vaccine, and how it`s mostly people who get all their news from social media.
I`m not on social media but I do keep an eye on alt-media And I know there is mass-censorship – big tec is in favour of the ...experiment. If anyone asks me, I don`t want a debate : I`ll just string them along. I tried to get information on how to avoid the vaccine and it was censored. I would like to get the certificate with no way to prove if that thing went in my vein or not. But the censorship when I looked for information caused alarm bells to ring. On principle I will decline.
More thoughts on terraced houses.
With a terraced house, you don`t have windows at the sides. Imagine if you did it would be looking into the neighbour`s place. . . *wave* I went to someone`s house which I guess was a semi detached. I went in the front door but then out the back door then round the side gate. But then the owner said I must go back in the back door and out the front door for good luck, because you are supposed to leave a house by the same way you came in! It`s a superstition. I find things like that hard to believe.
Further thoughts about terraced house.
You would expect that you would hear the neighbours, but not really. The walls are about ten inch thick solid concrete.
more to follow...