the flying squirrel

I also went out for a long walk yesterday. That was nice. The path through UW's north campus is still a mess, but other than that it was quite pleasant. I also walked to work this morning. I thought about biking, but the tires are pretty soft. I'm going to have to get a pump (having learned from my old bike that using gas station air pumps is probably a bad move).

I like walking. It gives me time to think about things. I've decided not to think about geopolitics again. I've come to the satisfactory conclusion that yes, while the world would be a much better place if everybody did what I think should do, that's not going to happen, and for my own sanity, it's best not to get worked up about things I can't do anything about. I don't want to argue with people, myself especially. Not about things that people really care about. I could tell you what I think about everything, but I'd spend another three days going over and over everything I've written in my head. And if somebody said something like "But squirrel, the world doesn't work that way," you can bump that three days up to a week while I compose a thousand stunning rebuttals.

So I'm staying out of it.

I know... if the whole world thought like that, nothing would ever get done, and everybody would just duck the hard issues. The world isn't me, though. If it were, we wouldn't be having these problems in the first place. So nya.

The anime show was a nice distraction. It went quite well, except for one minor wrinkle I won't dwell on. And it was nice seeing people again.