Night-Turned-Morning

Today merges with yesterday, because I didn't sleep last night. I spent the night-turned-morning browsing Neocities. I was filled with awe and curiosity at the cool sites I found. There was this one site that stuck with me, a memorial to someone's wife. I'm not sure if it's actually real, or an experimental art project. But the way this couple's life was laid out in virtual lockboxes really resonated with me. The text, music, the images of letters, audio files of old voicemails, and clips of videos from memories long gone gave me a sense of longing for somebody I never knew.

Unremembered Memories

There are a lot of events in my life that I don't remember. But they still impact me, change my life perspective, and cause me to act differently, even if the effect is minor.

You know what I just realized? Most of my beliefs, personality, interests, and fears come from the cumulative effect of memories I don't remember. Perhaps a small part of these memories live on through how they changed my behavior.

Rest of my Day

Adohn

I met with my friend Adohn at 11:00. He's a welder who's good with cars. He took a look at my brakes, checked if my wiper fluid tank was leaking, and gave me some advice and a list of things to do and buy for maintenance. It was nice seeing him again after so long.

Eaton

Then I went to my friend Eaton's house to witness his first debut album.

Once I got to Eaton's house I made sure to check my phone to see if it was the right house. I'm paranoid about coming up to the wrong house because I had a bad Facebook market experience when I came up to the wrong house.

When I got inside there was a table of snacks and some background music playing at a low volume. As it turns out, the background music was the debut of the album. I thought the debut was going to be a live playing, so I waited quite a while before I realized the truth. I was a little disappointed. There was an event in which participating guests would fill out a sheet of paper guessing the names of lullabies. I recognized a few of the lullabies, but most of them were religious. So I did not win the competition.

I spent some time coloring. There were coloring pages with the album cover in black and white, soon to be filled in with beautiful marker. I had some fun coloring the page. A little girl joined me, I don't know how she's related to Eaton. I assume she's family.

I didn't expect how religious the gathering would be. There was lots of talk about celebrating the lord and everyone gathered there seemed to be very religious folk. Most of the guests were family or family friends, who were all either heavily involved with the church, or grew up influenced by it.

Near the end of the event I got to listen to Eaton and his family and friends jam out on old religious tunes. It was cool seeing such a musically inclined family and friends playing together. I'm not religious, so all of the songs were new to me. The sounds was very holy. I stayed till around 4:00, then left because I felt like going home.

Mom's Eggrolls!

I went home, laid on my bed, then took a nap. Mom called me while I was laying in bed. I was reading manga, enjoying myself, when she called and asked if I wanted to come over to eat eggrolls, freshly made! I said sure. Then I fell into a deep nap. I eventually came over at 9:00 or 10:00. Ate the eggrolls, said hello, then brought some home with me.

Peemo

I was supposed to play with one of my Tennis buds (Peemo, you can tell I'm getting more creative with the placeholder names) today. He texted me yesterday asking if I was still planning to hit today Saturday. I didn't see his message till today. I didn't sleep because I thought I had nothing going on today. Turns out I had a lot planned today, I just forgot about all of it.

Mnemonic Image

The most vivid memories from today are browsing the JenniferCombs memorial site, getting my car checked with Adohn, and being at Eaton's debut album viewing.

To represent this, my mnemonic image will be of Adohn fixing up my sofa, which I drove to his house. In the background Eaton's family and friends, Valerina, Sahara, and Lindy, are on their knees in reverential worship. I am blissfully relaxing while this is all happening.

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Fig. 1 - Adohn Repairing my Sofa with Worshippers in the Background

Each element of the image corresponds to the folllowing memory:

Here's the image on the calendar.

Fig. 2 - Mnemonic Image on Calendar