Solace.

Through invisible corridors for uncounted hours

searching for contentment and the restless fix of rushed words and

replies of strangers.

Esoteric information rushed to lone individuals 

locked away

devoid of meaning.

Obama.

Great inaugeration, inspiring speech, just got to see whether the expectations placed upon him are too high now. I'm sure he'll be great, but whether the Republicans will make life hard for him.

On a related note, justice roberts fluffed his lines when swearing him in. I laughed.

Existence before essence.

Life is pretty damned pointless. We're condemned to be free, as Sartre said, therefore any solace is of our own finding, there is no greater purpose, existence precedes essence in humanity's case. So, we're in the position where any meaning in our lives is left to be found by ourselves, there i am hitting a problem. I'm finding no meaning in life. I have everything, lots of time to myself, great friends - heck, i'm happyish with who i am, i'm intelligent, look reasonable when i'm not looking exhausted and have been told repeatedly i'm a nice guy. Sure, i don't have a girlfriend but.. well let's not go there.

I'm going travelling soon, meet up with a friend, hopefully explore a bit and get to Morocco eventually. We'll see if that satiates the void.

Social interaction.

I've discovered it's not as scary as i thought. Actually rather fun. How about that, people were right!

So very cold.

Right, it's 3am and i'm supposed to be getting up at 9am in order so that i actually see morning for once. Oh and go for a walk, yes, me - a walk. Doesn't seem to go does it? Well i'm supposed to be recouperating this year and getting my stamina levels up. Got to start somewhere. Sainsbury's, to precise, going to top up my phone. Well, got to give the walk SOME purpose.

Well well well.

Israel's going in for a ground offensive on the Gaza strip. Quite foolish, seeing as what Hamas practically excell at is guerilla warfare. Both sides are going to suffer heavy casualties and it's something Israel can't win. They'll most likely be forced to pull out like in their previous offensive against hezbollah in Lebanon. In the meantime, they'll have stirred up more hatred toward them by the collateral damage they'll have caused, and by that i mean their killing of children and civilians, alongside the traumatic damage to infrastructure. It'll be a miracle if this isn't the start of something larger in the middle east, though that is a constant risk. Hopefully the threat of nuclear retaliation will keep things contained. At any rate, aggression should cease immediately.

On another apocalyptic note, it seems Yellowstone is getting more active of late. If it goes off, then we're basically in another Ice Age for a while. A while being 80ish years. So in that respect, if it goes off, most of humanity will die. Ah well, it seems to be quietening down again now, so let us hope that it stays that way.