Mundane Moments

I'm 58 next week. It won't be pretty, but I'm starting to think that it might not be impossible that I can play past 60....barring serious injury.

Not really eliminated. Just tried to think of how I'm going to handle things at the point of purchase. Don't buy anything over packaged - unless I can use the packaging. For example I'll buy a litre of yoghurt, eat it over the course of a couple of weeks, then re-use the pot. Try to buy things only in re-useable, or recyclable form (in that order). Glass bottles, paper and cardboard, rather then plastics. Buy things in larger volume, selected such that they have a longer shelf life, so that there's more product to packaging. Compost food waste.

Try to make things as joined up as possible. So as a treat I might have a tube of Pringles. I might also have a particular range of desserts. The glass ramekins from the deserts can be used for cooking.... and the pringle lids fit them perfectly to make a storage jar. Collect the lids. Collect the jars. Don't throw stuff away unless you have to.

Think about using everything. Vegetable peelings can be used to make or flavour a stock before composting. I have been experimenting with vegetarian/vegan food for a while to reduce meat in my diet but also non-compostable waste. Be flexible and creative - recently my large packet of cooking bacon had a large slice of skin. I didn't cut it off and throw it away. I made twice cooked pork scratchings.

I'm not claiming to be perfect. Without help from our food supply chain it's almost impossible to be unless you are self sufficient... and who is? It's so frustrating when things don't have to be packaged as they are.

A big worry for me is batteries. I generate as many as the ordinary modern person (I use rechargeables where possible). I diligently save expended ones and take to a battery bank. I am deeply sceptical about how well they are handled from there ( as with recycling, could be landfilled for all I know, certainly a good proportion of my shit ends up in rivers and on the beach).

The modern world is quite shit. In terms of what we know, what we could do, but what we don't.

I do eat out (but much less than I did...and I am more careful about my chosen food outlets). I do dispose of waste when out. I'm not claiming to be the saint of recycling....just trying to have an eye on it, and take all reasonable steps.

A road marking(?) unit had driven through the middle of cotgrave and dropped paint as it drove. Quite a lot at this end. Less as it moved. I tracked it as far as Queens road in beeston, I think it might have headed off to the boots site area, but the paint was quite infrequent by then, and I needed to be somewhere else. Checked the other end my way back, but not far enough to establish the source.

Cracked a pisser related quiz in the pub after football.

Had possibly my best game for three years, turned around a seven goal deficit to run out four goal victors, scored a handful and made a string of exceptional key passes and assists. The key factor being relatively little pain from the tendinitis in my foot.

Bumped into a football friend at closing time, and wiped him out in a drag race at the lights, through cunning ( he was pumping tunes and talking up the rules. I just pulled off and left him talking when the lights turned ).

Bed before midnight.

Good day.

Nitter has stopped working because twitter X have been fucking about with their api, presumably as part of their drive to identify and monetize individuals and collect data against their identity. It won't be long now before it's a completely useless platform, if it isn't already.

The fediverse is often touted as an alternative for privacy related socials, but i find it problematic. It's essentially micro-proprietary, in the sense that it's based around multiple centralised servers - each an organisational fiefdom.

Nostr is not without problems, but it's actually the most satisfactory technical platform. Spoiled only by the people to whom it extends actual freedom to, and their values and behaviours.

But anyway, more people on nostr behaving socially is probably the best answer.