What do you say to a sheep that won’t go to sleep?
It's pasture bedtime!
Hey there! Yes, feel free to double check your calendar, I can’t believe it’s Tuesday again either. Time keeps on slippin’ into the future. Hey, that would probably make a cool song. This week’s email is kind of me just writing down what’s on my mind lately. Feels a little selfish, but it’s my dadgum newsletter gimmick, I guess. Hope to see you TONIGHT at 7pm Central Time on Twitch, where I’ll be jibber jabbering and maybe I’ll even draw a cow. Who knows?!
ANYWHO, did you do something different with your hair? I like it!
Words and Phrases
Have you ever started saying something as a joke, like in an ironic way, and then next thing you know it’s just something you say? I do it all the time. Most recently I found myself saying “rightly reckon” a bunch. I started saying it just as a laugh. Someone would say “We’re out of cheese” and I would reply “Well, I rightly reckon we oughta go to the store then.” I would say it in an accent like an old timey farmer and pretend to stretch out the straps of my overalls. Nobody laughed, not even me. But what is life without a little whimsy, ya know?
Well, over time I realized I was just dropping rightly reckons into my speech without knowing it. I didn’t even do the voice or the overalls bit anymore, just said rightly reckon instead of ‘think.’ The same thing happened to me over the years with words like ‘cattywampus’ and ‘golly gee’ and a bunch of others I can’t remember right now. Are there any words or phrases like that for you? You start saying it as a joke then BAM it’s part of your regular vocabulary. I’m sure there’s a fancy $5 science word that explains this, but I don’t know that word. I am a sock.
All Quiet on the Southern Sock
Overall, things have been pretty quiet. Which is good! I prefer to live life at a reasonable speed. It seems like life happens in waves, and right now I’m using this time to try and make little improvements where I can. Eat a little better, hit the gym and do some yogas, use the internet less, and look at the grass and the clouds more. I haven’t looked it up to see if the Moon is in Retro Gauge or anything, but it probably is. The weather is changing, I know that. It’s been a lot nicer outside for the most part so I try to go walk or something when I can.
I hope you’re taking care of yourself.
The Starving Algorithm
The social medias is like Mr Creosote from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
Just eating and eating and never really even enjoying the food. One of these days someone’s gonna feed it that final wafer-thin mint and KABOOMY. As a sock who makes things for the internet, there’s always the need to feed the beast, so to speak. If you don’t show up in people’s feeds they’ll forget about ya and look at something else. There’s no shortage of stuff to look at. So, I’m trying to give myself permission to just…not post. At least until I feel inspired to. It’s a delicate dance. As an old man who grew up pre-internet, I used to make stuff all the time and had nowhere to put it. Only a few friends would see it, if anyone. But I still made videos and drawings or whatever just because it was fun to do. Now there are a million places to post stuff, but sometimes it’s like…eh. Know what I mean?
FROGGER
Baby Sock has really been into playing Frogger lately. I’ve always liked that game, and I think I finally figured out why. You know who the main villain is? THE SPEEDER!! There aren’t enough games that show the evils of speeding, if you ask me. A billion games where you drive as fast as possible, and only a few where you try to safely cross the street. Like Tetris helps you pack, I think Frogger helps you cut through crowds by seeing and anticipating paths. When you get to the river part watch out because some of the turtles go underwater. In the later levels there are alligators and snakes and stuff, and the cars just get faster and more numerous.
Maybe I should make a game where I give tickets to the speeding cars and help the frogs cross the road!
Go Make Some Whimsy
That’s all for this week, hope to see you on the live stream gimmick tonight!
Surprised you even felt (pun-intended, but only if it works) like you’re having to look for whimsy. You’re living it, my friend! Thanks for the weekly smiles.