second brain optional
Today I decided with my first brain I shall go walk and have coffee somewhere. Like usual. I enjoy sharing the places I get to every so often on the fediverse and maybe a photo here and a story that somehow connects it all. The writing of some little back story comes from the most unlikely of places. Sometimes a notification on my iPhone from Google Photos. Or a brief glimpse of a place I happen to see when I go walking to other places. Other times I kinda decide what it is I want in the evening. It has been our hot season here so today I can expect about 38 or so which I don’t like walking in. Now I leave at 715am and I get some coolness of the morning. The coffee place today is a nice little walk however I slice it.
I’ve tried keeping notes of various coffee places and some little text snippets but I don’t enjoy the writing like that. It seems forced. Much like writing about people or having second brain worthy ideas and ideals about what I could do. I’m never bothered by what I could do. I either do a thing or I do not. I really dislike postulating or writing what a thing could mean.
I’m not really expected around here to do any of the things I could do I guess. Retirement in Cambodia is a first brain activity for me. It is the me in my now moments not some notes I could write and then link and get frustrated with. I could create wonderful wikilinks of things. Ideas and thoughts and things I have read. What is the point? If I don’t enjoy all that doing and thinking about doing it, I would never enjoy doing more of it. It is always the simplicity of things to me. The ease of living with few things that hold me down, make me feel less. It’s not a lack of money or love or people. I believe I have enough of each thing living here. If I lived in Vietnam, I would have more than enough. I told someone once about my experiment in Hanoi living on $5 a day for food. Imminently doable and I did it for about a week. Not because I had to. I just wanted to see what the food choices would be. Anyways, I digress. Perhaps this blog should be called Mike Digressing. It all these first brain things that come popping into some foreground and then leave other things standing over there.
I’ll take them all. I also need to leave for coffee now. I like being gone as soon as I can. It’s the house thing here. Written about it before. Those links always rise to the occasion too.
See you for coffee where I go.
lets do the coffee
So here we go. And there we went. Renegade thoughts blamed on photos of some place or other that Google Photos decided it was time to show me. Oh. Hello Singapore.
Some time ago. When I wandered through on my way to Malaysia. Little first brain memories. Links to not follow. People once there. I used to go for work often. Then I lived there. Then went back. That was a life of some kind. Having just enough stuff to fit in a duffel then was key. And I opened the lock many times. That year was 2019. And I just went then. Ended up back in Malaysia for Christmas.
Fine first brain times.