March 10, 2026
I was playing mahjong with my grandma and someone at the table hadn’t won a single hand yet. My aunt commented on how the tiles in my grandmother’s hand had arabic numerals on them. I said they could sometimes be useful for teaching. We ended up talking about Roman numerals and I brought up how they were still used on clock faces but we couldn’t manage to find a single one in the house that actually did.
March 8, 2026
I had been living in a shed in my cousin’s garden. The garden was very large and the shed itself was located in a shaded area with lots of moss where the geese liked to hang out. I was telling my friend about the bees that buzzed over my head and he said how he never gets to see any bees in the city where he lived.
March 6, 2026
I caught glimpses of someone watching the English dub of The Tatami Galaxy out of the corner of my eye. Meanwhile, we were playing a platform fighting game while sitting under the sheet metal roof. Someone dismissively called it “black and red Smash”
March 4, 2026
I was in a hotel room watching a Trigger short that was about giant autonomous airships transiting across the land and the unwitting generations of passengers living aboard. The landscape and the designs on the airships gave off a Breath of the Wild vibe with the Sheikah-like decals on the exteriors.
March 1, 2026
I was playing an evolution simulator game and I was stuck inside of a whale. I had to wade through furniture and other forgotten things while managing my air supply.