Mikes Thoughts

Saturday and little things

I guess I rarely track the days of the week any longer but my iPhone this morning told me kinda early when I asked it. I like getting up and writing in the morning with the lights off and the quiet of the neighborhood which is not a given. Usually there are the rising and falling voices of rapid fire khmer here and there. I spend the morning with little things in the bedroom instead with wifi and the wonderful world of my favorite tech gadget. My MacBook Air M1. It has for years given me this elegant and basic thing I just really enjoy. Writing and listening, watching YouTube videos, whatever just seems always the best. Creating or writing things on it like this in iA Writer means when I do go I can pick up the little things later when I sit somewhere or stop for mango or have time downtown neither here or there.

There’s nothing special about Saturdays really here. It is special when I do not hear the usual sounds and the morning is both the music I enjoy and the little songs the birds sing as they do their little dances across the trees and doing whatever it is little gray birds do. I guess I would rather have their dancing and singing than the never-ending cacophony of talking. I’m not good at the talking thing and have become less proficient with age. Sometimes it the repeated intonations that really make me want to go. It’s that barang in me I guess that does not really like all the sharing time.

Anyways, this Saturday is just writing whatever blathering bullshit comes along to me. I write about the daily life, the connections, the thoughts here because I feel it’s the place to just let them all go when I wish. Other people write cute little status messages. I like writing crap that is probably less than that. The personal meanderings of flocks of little things that cross over, climb under, and live within life here in Cambodia.

I’ve kinda dropped off Mastodon a lot lately for some reason. I enjoy the social aspects of it. It’s the only social network I will use. I just get tired of the scrolling and reading on it. Same with news. I tried to not use RSS for the few sources I enjoy but it’s difficult. So I just do what it is I like and use the same newsreader I have for years. News Explorer to me is the best app. No subscriptions. Bought it once years ago. It’s like writing in iA to me. Show me something better that does what this does. And don’t make it obsidian because that’s not better.

Oh sorry. More little diatribes. That’s life on the blog. At least for now at the house. In some of the ticks of some time, I will move along to a coffee shop and a walk this morning. My best time of the mornings is the getting away for hours.

coffee time and more little things

Leaving this morning was deciding on coffee. I could not sit at the house all day or go walk and just go back. Mornings are made for walking and coffee. This morning again with Spring Coffee. One of the places I enjoy most. It opens up walking through Wat Bo which I enjoy. And just sitting on a Saturday gives me a reprieve in many ways.

It always seems WiFi is so good out at places and yet so bad with our home WiFi. I don’t understand. It’s just easier to use it for others. Alone I would hotspot my iPhone.

In a week I guess I will get airline tickets to Hanoi. I’ll believe it when it happens. We have not gone before but this time I just feel this basic need. And prices are good.

I feel all the little things on a Saturday were covered. Sometimes I just feel like meandering here and talking about whatever it is that seems to be there. No real ideas ever where this thing goes. I do not even know where I’d go this morning. Yet I made it.

See you when you see me.