Testing, testing, one, two, three.

Okay, it's 8.57 am, I'm on the Richmond Central Pell Bridge and it is Wednesday, February 28th, this, I believe, are 26. It's Wednesday, yeah, Friday, it's 28. So it's 26. And I don't think I dictated it all the yesterday. I don't know if I, that's a little bit bad thing, but I want to try and make that habit. So yeah, what has happened in the past? I guess 36 hours. So Monday night I had to do a lot of coding to prepare for yesterday's test of big give and that went better than Friday's test of big give, which is good. So we're on a linear progression towards getting sign off or fully prepared for launch of big give. So that's good. However, I guess it was Friday morning. Monday morning when I got gas, check engine light came on and it kind of concerned me, obviously, didn't go away two stay morning. I already called me before I was going to work and told me about a big accident three-way. And so as I thought about sitting in traffic, I thought, well, now seems like, I looked at my schedule and there was no meetings. So I said, well, now seems like the perfect time to go into a Subaru and have them check it out. Well, it turned out to be a false alarm. The check engine light can go off when you're getting gas. And so I was kind of in a weird situation again. And then the guy said, yeah, it can go off if you have gas cap. It's something unrelated to the gas cap. He checked it. Everything looked fine. So it was like, I think it must not be the gas cap. And so everything looked like, you know, everything, you know, it was fine. Of course, the light is still there. It must be something else so we should take a look at it. That's $175 right there. So more than an oil change, less than a transmission flush. What can I say? So I said, yes, they looked at it. And you know, they're there, a tool to get the error code said that was a piston misfire, something like that, a spark plug misfire, which is, you know, not good. So they tried to investigate it. But by looking at the spark plugs and of course nothing was wrong. Everything looked fine. So they did a thorough check of my car. I guess I should, I should be glad that everything looked fine. And because of that, I feel assured that that light, if it comes on again, should be a false alarm. So I don't feel so bad. But yeah, I did walk out of there with no work being done, just even, you know, assessment. And then going into work, delay, doing a bunch of coding. Only to find that there are some things, you know, that they're catching you editorial, they give that they want to change. And so I don't like that. Of course, they've been busy with the campaign sites, what they haven't spent time on good kids. And now I'm stuck with trying to figure out how to do this. So anyway, I hope I don't think I'm in here for this CSS stuff that I got here. Anyway, what else? So, yeah, and in the right home, yesterday I didn't do any dictation. I was listening to the book. The book is, maybe that's a good sign. I mean, the book is more interesting. Anatham by Neil Stevenson. I mean, chapter seven, Farrell, right now, you know, they're, almost, they're traveling towards the North Pole. They had gone to various little towns. I can't remember the names of all, I believe one of them was Sambo. The other one is Norse Love. So yeah, and they're meeting people along the way debating religion and not religion. I don't understand, based on the description of their world, that these things even matter. But then continue on and see where I get. So that's the end of that. Let me talk about the next one.

Alright, it's 9.04 a.m. when say February 26th I'm on the 501, no the 580 just passing the PG&E Costco complex central avenue looks like there's bumper to bumper track coming up but anyway I wanted to talk about like a need to get done personally a project to preserve my photos I want to get, I want to be able to print my photos and lay them out and tell a story not so much like a diary of what we did but you know how my stories represent how my photos are part of a story and how I would like to incorporate art along with them essentially what people would call as art journaling but I see it you know more than just that telling us there's a story to be told along with it so it's not just art journaling because journaling implies you're not telling a story at least in my opinion I want to include my pictures in such a way that they can be appreciated as pictures art as well of course I'm never in the right like consistent space to tell a story along with art in the same kind of repertoire but I want to give it a try I don't have time to do all this first I have to figure out how to make a nice Coptic bound journal because I think a Coptic Stitch bound book once you know that book is in place then then I can think about if that's the right way to preserve everything I know I can get a printer I have a feeling that you know having my photos printed at the lab is very expensive obviously 25 bucks a print that's not cool I can print them on cheap paper but I want to print them on fun you know archival watercolor paper so that's my problem I get it but this stuff needs to last so yeah and yeah nowadays people obviously type out there they type there their journal entries or stories and they print them out on paper and that's not what I want to do practice you know a writing you know system that is preserved preserved is is you know qualifies as as a good solid preservation archival system as well as something hand made so obviously that takes time and effort and I need to continue working on that and I don't just obviously want to write in english I I mean I don't know english I'm not just an english speaker I want to incorporate Arabic and even the Arabic and the words from languages that we represent that we use all the time I think it would be cool if I could figure it out sometimes it may be an approach like for example light of course it's really cool it's really cool for example light of course I mean that story has changed it started out as I think Pharaoh's blue bonnet and has evolved over the years and you know from many different stories into what is now today light of course and I mean in some ways it just occurred to me that light of course is the collection of the short stories told by I mean this is really cool if light of course were a collection of short stories then each story represents a certain family member and the story itself embodies a certain character a place and time of a character like if you tell a story in a very he said she said simplistic way then maybe that's something you would tell a child you know if you tell a story in a traveler's perspective like a diary almost I would say that's anywhere from someone who's as young as 10 years old to his old is you know college years I mean that's pure you know adolescence to coming of age if you tell a story with dialogue lots of dialogue and you know it's a different way of telling a story but you know it also depends on whether or not your narrator is um omniscient or if you have a narrator if you don't have a narrator it's a bit avant-garde it's a bit experimental it's definitely something for the um you know who is the experimental audience it's this you know the audience that it's definitely I would say not married um you know the the audience that is uh challenging the status quo so we're definitely in college age I mean it could also be high school but that's an extreme for high school and it could go all the way until someone is is married but the minute you know you I think look at married that's different it's you I mean unless you tell it say the way like moonrise kingdom was told which is um I would say avant-garde but you know a traditional story told in avant-garde fashion um then uh yeah and then how how our stories told for the reader who is married and beyond uh those are definitely I would say those that are told with uh flashbacks yeah and so in some way uh the use of flashbacks the use of time altering because honestly I think you know whether you've just gotten married and you're looking back at the years in which you were single whether you are married and are about to have children and you're looking at the time and you're looking back to having children whether you you know are married with children and your children are out of the house and you're looking or they are no longer you know always at home they don't need your care then you're looking back at uh time when they needed you to have a time for a mature readership you know even stories when you talk of childbirth so yeah uh maybe it's a collection maybe flight of horse is a collection of stories around you know life and the course of life and the flight of horse is really the course of life um told as a series of short stories I definitely like that oh boy I'm gonna stop now because it had safely