My Return to the Paper Diary

Rediscovering the notebook

I found my old Filofax in a box. A colleague at work recently bought a ReMarkable tablet, which he uses for taking notes. It sparked my old interest in taking notes on paper.

I’ve always had mixed feelings about taking notes on my computer. My current setup is a collection of Markdown files.

There are advantages — I type quickly, I can search, and it’s easy to structure and reorganise things.

May 12, 2021

May

Megatrends

Lots of sites and blogs have at some point listed the megatrends they believe in.

Climate crisis.

It seems to me that it is actually going to happen. And there will be many consequences. Drought - some megacities are already experiencing lack of water. Starvation - crops are failing. These are just two of many, many negative consequences.

Migration.

As huge masses of people experience the implications of the climate crisis they will flee and seek safety. Europe will be invaded. USA will be invaded. The welfare state will break down.

April 24, 2021

April come she will

Not recieved the jab - yet

End of april. One month until summer.

Not much happening. Sleep, work, eat - go for the occational walk. Had a nice sunday skiing a few weeks ago. Tested my new cross country skis.

That’s about it.

November 18, 2020

November is the cruelest month

Getting Covid fat and lazy

The Waterboys claims December is the cruelest month. But then they did not have Covid in 1983. I know what the lyrics is about - but since I am listening to the album as I write these words the helpless paraphrase came to mind.

I love the album though. In the last part of the eigthties life had a steady and nice ascent. Got a girlfriend, went to uni, met new friends, got gloriusly drunk lots and lots of times, moved out from home and after an all to short stay at the uni started to work. Could not wait to start working, earn my own money, get on with life.

November 1, 2020

Four out of six

It’s not enough.

If you would set a grade on something - a movie, a song, something and use a dice as the rating system then four out of the maximum six would be almost good enough.

The Netflix film you almost stop watching, the song you actually do stop after listening to it for too long, a life which is barely OK.

It is a shitty grade because it is too easy to just stay that way. It is not bad enough to really be a pain but not good enough to enjoy.