+++ title = “02” date = 2019 +++ It’s always a treat to get a behind-the-scenes look at a thing. After all, this is the process that created some beloved piece of art. It’s a peak into what the creators had to go through. The trial, tribulation, pain, and pleasure in the act of creating something new and unique. We imagine that the behind-the-scenes is full of bustling artists, fast-talkers, and brilliant strokes of genius.

What do you think of when I say the word nourishment? Food, perhaps. Particularly food that is healthy, contains vitamins, etc. But maybe it’s deeper than that. The dictionary says: So it’s not just a reference to food, but can also include “other substances.” And it’s not that the substances we use are the cause of our good growth, health, and condition, it’s that they contribute to the environment that exists around us, and those variables make it easier to grow and be in good condition.

There’s something so perfectly painful about pastries. I used to eat a pastry almost every day when I used to work in downtown DC. The truth is that the eating was a distraction from what I found to be an utterly boring desk job. If it wasn’t a pastry, it would be something else relatively unhealthy, like a can of Monster, or perhaps a sausage that spent most of its morning bathing in the juices of a cantaloupe in the office food court.

+++ title = “02” date = 2019 +++ I bought the game Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid because I wanted some kind of immersive video gaming experience riding roller coasters. Turns out the game was actually a simulation of what it would be like to run a theme park. I was disappointed to say the least, but back then I didn’t have another new game available, so I played tycoon.

I used to love the night. As a child, night was when everything happened. Santa. Ghosts. Beer. Stars. Seinfeld. Everything. In college, night was really the only time I got anything useful done. Editing video, coding. It was almost like the daytime didn’t count. Like the sunlight was a kind of barrier. Not so long ago, relatively speaking, people used to take the sunset as a clear signal to go to sleep.