Boring

I've never been the most interesting of people.  But I think I've become really boring.  Even more boring than ever before.  I don't do anything exciting, I don't go anywhere exciting.  I live a very plain and uneventful life.  And I don't like it.  I'd like to do much more and make much more of my life, but I'm really not motivated enough to do anything about it.  I've become even more introverted.  I've become incredibly reluctant to step outside my comfort zone.  In all aspects of my life.  And that's a real shame.  Is this an age thing?  Partly.  Are there other factors at play?  Partly.  For example, I think working from home has ruined my work life balance.  I think if this was 10 years ago, I would have done more about my current situation - quit my job, relocated, etc.  But things are very different now - the job market for my kind of position is nowhere near as abundant as it used to be, I think I'm a lot more fussy about where I live, and I've just kind of settled for what I have.  Which is not necessarily a good thing.  I know this is not a particularly positive blog entry, but I like to speak the truth.  And I've been feeling quite down recently.  But my depression tends to be quite cyclical in nature, so I hope I can pick myself up sooner rather than later.        

Statue

They recently revealed a new statue outside the ballpark of the Seattle Mariners, to honor one of the best players to ever play for Seattle - Ichiro Suzuki.  See if you can spot anything wrong with the statue:

 

Arc de Trump

Trump has asked for a budget of $10 billion to spend on Washington DC projects, like this planned eyesore:

That is four times the proposed budget for the National Park Service.  Which is a disgrace.  In the meantime, Operation Epic Fury is costing the US about $1 billion every day.  And who is paying for the war and Trump's stupid vanity projects?  Why the US taxpayer of course.  The cost of living is rising, led by the significant increase in gas prices.  I'm going to have to start filling up exclusively at Costco gas stations, which are generally the cheapest around.

Bad Back

You're supposed to rotate your bed mattress 180 degrees every 3 to 6 months.  I rotated mine last weekend, and now I'm suffering from a bad back and lack of sleep.  What a mistake.  I think I'm going to rotate my mattress back to how it was this weekend.  This is not the first time this has happened.  I don't know why one side of my mattress is so messed up compared to the other.  I've even tried sleeping on the other side of the bed, but that hasn't helped.  I think I've just created that perfect, comfortable depression in the mattress on one side - and nothing else will do.     

Spiders

Do spiders hibernate?  Apparently they must do, because after a winter of inactivity I've been seeing loads over the last few days.  It really is quite unsettling.  Like they've been biding their time over winter until a certain temperature is reached again and they are reactivated.  All of them.  At once.  And not uncoincidentally we have had some nice weather this week.  Disturbing.

Balrog

It should come as no surprise that I've been building a Lego set to help deal with the current stresses of work.  I've just completed this one:

Happy Easter!

No Easter eggs for me this weekend.  Disappointing.  I'm teased by the presence of Cadbury Creme Eggs at the grocery stores - but I'm not tempted because the ones for sale here are made by Hershey and taste significantly inferior to the ones back in the UK.  Just like all the other Cadbury-branded products they sell here.  It's an absolute disgrace.  No wonder that whenever I come back to the UK, I'm forced to return to the US with loads of chocolate in my luggage.  Which inevitably doesn't last as long as it should.