summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/articles/do-nothing-simulator.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPeter Nguyen <peteralistairnguyen@gmail.com>2025-03-05 04:52:47 -0600
committerPeter Nguyen <peteralistairnguyen@gmail.com>2025-03-05 04:52:47 -0600
commitbedf7092e44311d2574e22951f3d5a73278b0990 (patch)
treedc6f5c9006692439d3fc103fa3e1b7ff6e7e3115 /articles/do-nothing-simulator.html
parent0878b2fcec078800d01ac9f581a3c8622727ab8a (diff)
New blog article, because I love you
Diffstat (limited to 'articles/do-nothing-simulator.html')
-rw-r--r--articles/do-nothing-simulator.html140
1 files changed, 140 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/articles/do-nothing-simulator.html b/articles/do-nothing-simulator.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84dd691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/articles/do-nothing-simulator.html
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+
+<head>
+ <!-- PAGE SETUP-->
+ <title>peten.ca | do nothing simulator</title>
+ <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/images/petemcgeenobg.png">
+ <meta charset="utf-8">
+ <meta content='width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=no;' name='viewport' />
+ <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
+
+ <!-- CSS -->
+ <link href="/css/blog-post.css" rel="stylesheet">
+ <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
+ integrity="sha384-QWTKZyjpPEjISv5WaRU9OFeRpok6YctnYmDr5pNlyT2bRjXh0JMhjY6hW+ALEwIH" crossorigin="anonymous">
+
+ <!-- JS -->
+ <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.js"
+ integrity="sha256-eKhayi8LEQwp4NKxN+CfCh+3qOVUtJn3QNZ0TciWLP4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
+ <script src="/scripts/peten.js"></script>
+ <script src="https://unpkg.com/typed.js@2.1.0/dist/typed.umd.js"></script>
+
+ <!-- FONTS -->
+ <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
+ <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
+ <link
+ href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&family=Ubuntu+Sans:ital,wght@0,100..800;1,100..800&display=swap"
+ rel="stylesheet">
+
+</head>
+
+<body class="font-montserrat fade-in">
+ <header>
+
+
+ <div class="header text-dark">
+ <a href="/blog.html">← BLOG POSTS</a>
+ <span class="date">
+ MARCH 5, 2025
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ </header>
+
+ <main class="blog-post">
+ <h1>"DO NOTHING SIMULATOR"</h1>
+
+ <p>
+ <i>Did ya miss me? I missed me.
+ </i>
+ <br> <br>
+ Hello, friend.
+ <br> <br>
+ I've been busy, you know. Really, really, really busy. My day starts at 5:30. I wake up,
+ drink a cup of coffee, sit at my desk wondering what it is I should do, then I go back to sleep.
+ I sleep for most of the day, and stay up most of the night. In fact, I'm writing this at 3:41AM on March
+ 5th, 2025. Notice I didn't specify which 5:30 I was waking up at.
+ <br> <br>
+ I don't think I'm really depressed or anything like that, I'm just kinda lacking stimulation.
+ There's not much for me to do - and the same goes for my friends. Drink coffee, drive around. Walk around,
+ get more coffee. Sit down at a restaurant. At a café. On the ground. On a bench. Invent things to do. Drive
+ around some more. Talk about life, about love, about our futures. Speculate. You know, the works.
+ <br> <br>
+ Just waitin' around to die.
+ <br> <br>
+ (Do not interpret that in a morbid sense - I'm talking about the
+ <b><a class="inline-link"
+ href="https://youtu.be/LGMOX8NpuR0"">
+ song</a>
+ </b> by Townes Van Zandt)
+ <br> <br>
+
+ I stopped working at the start of February. I got sick, got better, then got sick again. Gave my boss two updates, and he didn't respond to the second one. Sue me, but I wasn't really interested in coming back if he didn't need me. Apparently, he didn't.
+ I knew I was going to put in my two weeks once I got to six months of work, but the opportunity to NOT be called "
+ Puss-Puss", "fuckface" , and "retard" came at me, and I took it. I'm not gonna lose sleep over it.
+ <br> <br>
+ Regardless, you fix one problem, and get a few more in its place. I had a job, and was doing stuff.
+ Now I'm doing.. nothing. It's boring. So, I'm pretty much back where I started in October. This
+ time, I'm not going to play Escape From Tarkov: Arena for two weeks though.
+ I still have some money, and I'm taking it at my own pace, and enjoying the ride (if you can call
+ whatever *this* is, enjoying).
+ <br> <br>
+ But, I am ever the optimist. Life is shitty - woe is me, but I am still alive, and kicking. The best
+ time to be alive is the time that YOU are alive, dear reader. With regards to me, it means
+ I can hone my skills doing things I might actually want to do - like writing for this site! Big
+ shout out to the like three people who actually read what I put on here. I don't have metrics, so
+ I'm just guessing as to how many people genuinely read this stuff.
+ <br> <br>
+ If you have comments, you can
+ tell me about them. I'm too lazy (at least right now) to put a disqus comment section beneath my
+ posts. I
+ know some dork would come and tell me that I copied a lot from Gilles Castel (of <b><a
+ href="https://castel.dev/" class="inline-link">castel.dev</a></b>, RIP). I
+ didn't copy any of his code, if that's what you're saying. His design philosophy and layout? That's
+ a different story. 😁
+ <br> <br>
+ Whenever I sit down to write one of these, I don't come into it with a plan. I hardly even try to
+ revise my work, because I just want to debrief. With you, the reader. Whoever you might be. Don't
+ expect me to be extremely profound, or verbose. Me like write word fast - no good. Yes? Haha. Nice.
+ Anyways, I struggle to think of things of actual note in my life. The army thing is progressing, I
+ got accepted to all three of the backup universities I applied to (UofR, UVic, and UofA), and am now
+ just playing the waiting game for RMC. We'll see if it's as Jakey B. would say.. "blessed". I just
+ need to stack some bread, work out, and hopefully not die before I realise my designs.
+ <br> <br>
+ I started work on a few side-projects, including a web-scraping-job-applying-helper app. You'll see
+ it, in due time, if I ever get around to finishing it. Check back on the projects section of this
+ site, in a month or two, if you're curious. Hopefully I'll be done with the million other articles I
+ intend to write, too. I bought Mao Zedong's "On Guerilla Warfare", too. Maybe I'll write a review of
+ it, or something. I could give my (obviously) highly qualified two cents on the topic of asymetric
+ engagement. I dunno really.
+ <br> <br>
+ Well, that's about it. I'll drop the Cliff's Notes below, but just know: if you come specifically to
+ my blog just to read the TLDR at the bottom, you're going to burn. In Hell. Damnation - of the
+ eternal variety. I'm just kidding, of course! Or am I..?
+ <br> <br>
+ TLDR: Really, really bored. Doing a lot of nothing, often together, with friends. Stopped working
+ (for the time being). Keeping busy in pretty much the only way I know how. Accepted to UofA, UVic,
+ and UofR. Waiting on word from RMC. Projects and other musings in the works.
+ <br> <br>
+ That's all for now.
+ <br> <br>
+ PETEN. ARRIVING. ON THE SCENE.
+ <br> <br>
+ Peter
+ </p>
+ </main>
+
+
+ </div>
+
+ <footer class="footer">
+ Copyright Peter Nguyen <span id="copyright-year"></span>. All rights reserved.
+ </footer>
+
+ <!-- BOOTSTAP JS -->
+ <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"
+ integrity="sha384-YvpcrYf0tY3lHB60NNkmXc5s9fDVZLESaAA55NDzOxhy9GkcIdslK1eN7N6jIeHz"
+ crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
+</body>
+
+</html> \ No newline at end of file