rain -forest +plain/lowland/slightwoodland ?

alternating pissing and blistering sun. this is what vietnam must be like. it has rained every day since i got back from the memorial day weekend. i asked co-workers about it, and they expect the trend to continue until december.

you learn quickly that you cannot go anywhere without an umbrella. you might deceide to do some shopping inside a target store, for instance, and as you park your car and decide to enter, the sun is beating down something ferocious, and there are the beetles buzzing, yknow the beetles that only buzz when it is very hot and there are mirages on the roads and waving air above asphalt. and so you don't take your umbrella with you.

that is a mistake. you should always take your umbrella with you.

surprise attacks are common, and so they shouldn't be regarded as surprises.

today i have decided to do some bicycling. i should go to a park with trails. but i will not take my umbrella. i will just deal with it. i will martyr myself with unholy wetness. i will bring a towel for the carseat.

lately i have not been finding perspective, because it takes me two years to adapt to new situations (which incidentally kind of sucks when new situations only last for a period of 1 second up to 1.999 years), and in the meantime it helps if i have someone tell me what it is i should be doing, like a teacher or an instructor or a mom, but in lieu of all of that i need to write myself instructions while i am feeling assertive.

they might say "you are o.k.. today you should do the laundry. while the laundry is going, organize the living room and bed room. find an empty box, and everything that does not yet have a proper place, throw it in the box, and then we will find a place for the box, and maybe later sorting can happen. get this done and i will treat you to some outdoor activities. we can go for a drive like you like to do, or even take the bicycle to a park and find trails. you are o.k.."\
"btw you should never compare yourself to characters or movies and books or songs or historical figures and fables or don quixote, who is actually probably covered when i wrote 'characters' or also 'books' and maybe 'movies' too. i sure could use some distraction."

there is a church playground directly adjacent to my apartment. the children are not playing this morning because of everything being wet and crummy, and because of the possibility of further surprise showers.

here is a picture of a playground character that i do not trust:



i am calling this untrustworthy character "Teeth McQuack". just because.

regardless of the name, this guy is shady, and the children know it too, because they pay no attention to him.

i am going to map out my bicycle adventure now.

i am theweakestlink. goodbye.