Introductions Hello! Welcome to The Disorientation, a blog where I try to make sense of this world. I'm Aaron. I write stuff, edit words, and (somet...
I was itching to play some Borderlands 3 again so I fired it up and immediately got hit with this horrible statistic: a little over 9 days of play-time. Hell no. I really did not need to know that. A whole 9 days I've played this game! That's 216 hours. Granted, that's spread out over a few years, but still. That's messed up. I've spent 216 hours playing just one game. And that's not including…
So my last post was about me failing the hell out of the 52 book challenge. I've written plenty about my on-and-off (and on-and-off) again trouble with reading. Well, recently, I've gotten back into it. Yesterday I read about 60 pages. This is after reading pretty much nothing for about a month. A small, but very welcomed, step. I genuinely enjoy reading, but sometimes I just lose all interest.…
I'm setting down the white flag, I suppose. I've written about my struggles with reading before and here's another one. I have phases where I don't read for some period of time. I simply wont have the energy or even zeal to read anything. Not even fore pleasure. This can last only a few days or even a few months. And it's random, too. Nothing in particular (that I'm aware of) sets it off. It can…
You know what I'm talking about? Bic Cristal is the pen I'm talking about. Those cheap-ass pens that pop up seemingly everywhere: from school to the bank and from the dentist to under your couch. Those hexagonal-shaped pens with a clear body showing you its long tube of black, blue, red, green, whatever ink. I really like those pens. I'm a bit of a pen and pencil guy. As in I've spent far too much…
I find grammar immensely fascinating. I think it's a gateway drug of sorts. Something that lets you peer behind the veil into an uncharted world full of the mysteries and intrigue of language. You learn a bit of grammar and all of the sudden you can create a variety of sentences and express yourself in another language. Obviously, you won't be fluent, but it lights a fire under you. Makes you want…
Or maybe a mouse? It's a small one. Feisty and fast. I was at my desk when I heard something move in the back. I thought it was the curtains rubbing against a drawer near my window at first. A while later, while in bed, I heard it again. I looked around and thought I saw a black mass on the floor. I went to turn on the light and it was gone. At that point, I figured it was a rat. Or a big-ass…
Maybe not "haha" funny but more "huh, that's weird" funny. I was reading a book that made a passing reference to Kerry W. Thornley who, along with Gregory Hill, helped to establish a belief system or religious movement called "Discordianism." This counterculture-era religion was founded after the duo's publication of Principia Discordia. The book also heavily features in Robert Anton Wilson and…
Goddammit, bro. What the hell? What's wrong with me? I legit make a conscious effort to put my picks in a certain spot because I know they'll disappear. I've had to buy multiple packs of picks because I keep losing them. And they always just vanish. It happened just yesterday. I left it at the spot I always do, then a few hours later I wanted to practice the bass and guess what? Gone. Just flat…
And it's been doing wonders for my back. My old chair broke about a month back or so. The back support area, whatever it's called, just completely broke off. Like suddenly, too. I'm someone who likes to lean back when I'm sitting, so imagine my surprise when I nearly fell backwards and banged my damn toes on my desk. I figured I'd ride it out as I looked for a new chair. My old one wasn't anything…
This is going to sound strange, but the topic of this post stemmed from research into the Zodiac Killer. If you aren't aware, the Zodiac Killer operated in the San Francisco Bay Area between Dec. 1968 and Oct. 1969. He, as far as investigators are aware, murdered five people, but may have a higher kill count. He was never caught. And, presently, he is one of the most infamous individuals in the…