/** * file: journal_karbytes_24october2024.txt * type: plain-text * date: 25_OCTOBER_2024 * author: karbytes * license: PUBLIC_DOMAIN */ I do not really celibate the holidays. Instead, I treat every day as a day which ought to be spent taking care of unfinished business while minimizing the waste of time, energy, and other resources whose availability is finite. I do not really have physical nor emotional intimacy with any person other than myself. I could hence be accurately described as autosexual rather than merely asexual given that I occasionally masturbate (while being otherwise voluntarily celibate and voluntarily friendless (though I do consider myself as having people other than myself in my life who I regard as family members or acquaintances)). Lastly, after spending approximately three consecutive days in the Castro Valley and Dublin region where my legal residence is located, I have come to the conclusion that I and my neighbors would be happiest with me keeping the curtains of my bedroom window permanently drawn shut instead or leaving them fully open as I have been doing. (I started drafting this note while hiking downhill from the location along Ramage Peak trail where I recorded and uploaded to GitHub the following photographic images and panoramic video of what I assume is the highest elevation point along that trail (and the GitHub links to those raw files are available below this paragraph)): image_0: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/northeast_of_room_of_karbytes_24oct2024_p0.jpg image_1: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/northeast_of_room_of_karbytes_24oct2024_p1.jpg video: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/northeast_of_room_of_karbytes_24oct2024_video.mp4 * * * On second thought, I decided to keep my room’s window left fully exposed to the outside world instead of cloaked by hanging pieces of cloth because I think it looks much more beautiful, serene, and sanity-inducing for it to stay open than cloaked. After all, relative to seemingly most other people who live in my country, I have essentially nothing to hide (and hence volunteer to make my existence almost entirely accessible to the public (aside from passwords, bank accounts, legal identification records, and information which might obstruct my progress towards my goals if shared with a wider audience than just myself and the vigils of the deep state (et cetera) who I assume could be watching my every thought, movement, and sensation)). * * * After I got home approximately two hours after sunset from the hike I went on to the high point on Ramage Peak trail (which I captured a Google Earth three-dimensional map of in the last of the following image links on this web page), I saw that the outdoor Halloween lights at my residence were not turned on. So I turned them on, took some photographs of them, and uploaded them to GitHub. (I did not mean to suggest that I do not appreciate holiday festivities and decorations (especially Hallow’s Eve) earlier in this note. Instead, I meant to suggest that, if I lived entirely on my own instead of in a residence I share with multiple other people, I most likely would not decorate my living space for special occasions due to the fact that I have a “fetish” for keeping my personal living quarters minimalist, industrial-looking, and a bit deliberately creepy/macabre/mysterious. I also did not mean to suggest that I am entirely opposed to having friends. I just think I really am happiest and most productive as a “modern hermit” (i.e. someone who lives close to major cities and frequently goes into metropolitan areas to shop and hang out but not really to socialize outside of brief casual exchanges)). image_0: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/residence_of_karbytes_halloween_decor_24oct2024_p0.jpg image_2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/residence_of_karbytes_halloween_decor_24oct2024_p1.jpg image_3: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/residence_of_karbytes_halloween_decor_24oct2024_p2.jpg web_page: https://karbytesforlifeblog.wordpress.com/map_of_karbytes_home_environment/ * * * Immediately after I wrote in this note (approximately thirteen hours ago) that I prefer my personal living space to have macabre or creepy elements, I intuitively felt that something was amiss about that description. I decided to keep that description unmentioned and “out of date” until now because, last night when I wrote that part of this note, I was eager to “hurry up” and get this note published and shared on my social media profiles. Rather than say that I want my personal living space to have deliberately unsettling elements (which is more exhibitionist and reaction-provoking than what is genuine to my preferences and personality), I would say that I want my personal living space to contain what I regard as personally sentimental or nostalgic elements (which remind me of fun or meaningful experiences I had or subject matter which I am deeply intrigued by and interested in). Without such elements, my living space would be devoid of what makes it feel like my home in particular; the home of karbytes. For example, on the west-facing wall of my room, there is a makeshift poster made from a recycled reusable shopping bag from the Sunnyvale Whole Foods Market depicting the Golden Gate Bridge against a pale blue sky, the San Francisco Bay shoreline seamlessly blending in with the shallow rocky waters, and the words in white sans-serif “BAY AREA”. To the right of that poster is a small rounded white piece of paper with my handwriting on it displaying the words “Karlina Object dot WordPress dot Com”. Above that piece of paper is a circular mandala hologram sticker which came with an order of psilomethoxin capsules I ordered from Church of the Sacred Synthesis. Links to images depicting the interior of my room are listed below: image_0: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_09october2024_p0.jpg image_1: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_09october2024_p1.jpg image_2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_09october2024_p2.jpg image_3: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_23october2024_p0.jpg image_4: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_23october2024_p1.jpg image_5: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_closet_21october2024.jpg image_6: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/mdiscs_karbytes2024ue16_created_%26_tested_22oct2024.jpg image_7: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/mdisc_karbytes_complete_set_22october2024.jpg * * * Approximately seven hours after I made the most recent update to this web page, I made this update to this web page (which entails adding the following two video files of my room to the GitHub repository named KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24 (and, by implication, to the “micro directory” section of the website this web page’s “live” (i.e. server-hosted and browser-rendered) HTML file is a component of named raw_github_files_directory_KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24). The GitHub links to those two videos are displayed below this paragraph: video_0: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_castrovalley_california_25oct2024.mp4 video_1: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/room_of_karbytes_interior_28_september_2023.mp4