✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯ archived text is available here https://coyburn.neocities.org/fish 011024 when the clyde is very still, and the tide is low, you can see small ripples on the surface that are not raindrops. a colleague told me they were produced, assumedly by bubbles, from the creatures that live at the bottom of the river. i imagine a large colony of worm like creatures thrashing their heads around with their bodies disappearing into the mud and silt at the bottom of the river that feeds and sustains them. what kind of creature can thrive at the bottom of this filthy river? with thousands of years of dirt and debris from human civilisation, exponentially exasperated by industrialisation. they must be something truly rotten indeed. 110924 earl grey is like the IPA of teas 100824 dreamt about finding a gigabit powerline adaptor in a box and i was so happy 190724 i am on holiday in canada now. thank goodness i travelled yesterday rather than today with the major IT outages! feels good to be here the weather is stunning and vancouver is a beautiful place. i like that upon landing the first thing we did was go to our friends->partners->friends rec league football (soccer 🥴) game in a small park. it feels like we are participants in the city rather than tourists or visitors. the city just feels so much more forward than glasgow which seems to drag its heels on any form of progress. but i cant belie that my annual leave allowance of 45 days is exceptional and i would find it hard to drop that - a friend in calgary has a 'good' holiday package and she has 15 days. 140724 i went to a cocktail bar in my neighbourhood today thats closing down tomorrow. the staff got given 2 weeks notice from the owners and they're gone. tomorrow is their last day. i went once before and thought it was really great - real speakeasy vibe and the cocktails were wow they were something else. definitely some of the most experimental drinks ive had but so creative and courageous i think i was impressed. i think its obvious they are having to close because they aren't making any money but theyve only been open 12 months or less. it was such an amazing thing to have to close by but i only went once and you know use it or lose it. anyway they are so rammed this weekend its near impossible to get a seat. im also thinking about this bar close by, that used to be something else. it used to be a real classic boozer and its been bought over (by someone decent tbh) but its changed. and before we went cuz it was advertising free pool on wednesdays so we were like aye we'll do that we fancy a game of pool. so we went in and asked about it and they said oh aye sure and gave us 50p out the till to put in the pool table. and as we're playing we realise the bar is ~busy but no one is talking and the tele is very loud. and actually everyone is watching the tele intently and its coronation street (and the story is very dramatic as it is) and our pool playing is cracking out over the programme they're all watching and now we feel very awkward. do they come here every day to watch coronations street together? probably. and now its bought out and its hip and its cool and someone tried to sell stolen meat when we were in recently and got kicked out and its moved onto something else. once coronation street ended they muted the tele. now all the lights are very red and the tables have candles on them with lots of melted wax all over the base and they have a leather bound menu. there are no tvs. toilets are still boggin tho. im really glad i got to experience that before they changed it. it feels like a part of history that you just dip in on. 060724 i am progressing my long list of things. the list is constant. sometimes it gets lost or i give up but it always reappears, maybe in another form. items can also appear on more than one list (they are daunting or long). some items will never be completed. god sophie made the most otherwordly music. 050724 longggg 12 hour shift today. feeling burst and like not doing anything. novel feeling in work continuing a bit. NPC mode for me today i think. also made to commitment to start elden ring on pc last night having failed at playing it on ps4 a few years ago cuz i was shite. its still hard and im still shite. i quite enjoy drinking beer or whiskey when playing but im so focussed on maxing my physical state to be better at the game maybe i need to drop it while playing. having this thoughts while not even able to beat the first miniboss encountered. 040724 playing watch dogs 2 on the recommendation of a friend. normally quite cynical about a lot of game but finding this one quite joyful. election is awful tbh busy but novel at least at work and seeing how its all going suck not feeling good about any part of it really. at least the tories will be out. having to miss going away with my friends this weekend too due to work. sometimes it can feel like your friends dont believe in you but every time i have found that its just me being silly and they clearly show you how much you mean to them in others ways you didnt expect. this happened to me recently but i think its important to remember. very friend themed this one. i love all my friends they are great 💕 ✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯