This is the fourth time I've tried to write a daylog. I keep starting them and then they sort of ramble into something other than an account of how my days going and I find myself thinking "Jeez, I like what I'm writing but it really belongs in it's own node." Then the start of my shift rolls around and I'm off to work without posting anything for that day. This is not a new pattern but to happen three times in a row seems like the sort of thing I should be able to avoid. I've got today off and then I move to weekend shift and I'll have two days during the week to write which will hopefully get me back on track to writing thirty by the end of November.
Other than IRON NODER, what's going on in my life? Well my media diet is still to avoid the news and information as much as I can practically. I don't like my cultivated ignorance but every time I do otherwise I feel bad about the decision. I've been watching a lot of video's on nuclear power and they've gotten me kind of hyped for molten salt thorium reactors and nuclear power generation in general. I understand a lot of peoples issues with nuclear but it gets a way worse rap than it deserves if you just go by hard numbers. I might try to do a write up for it but I don't have any real expertise and it would be time consuming to do it in enough detail. More than anything I've been listening to podcasts while I work. I sort of hate my relationship with the whole work podcast cycle because when I'm at home I often find my self pining for my parasocial relationships but at the same time I often hate the work. It's a weird Catch-22 that's given me a kind of employment Stockholm Syndrome. I don't want to lose the opportunity to listen but most jobs don't afford a ten hour a day podcast habit. First world problems, eh? Actually, the Cold War is over so it's really developed world problems.
IRON NODER XIV: THE RETURN OF THE IRON NODER