I never did get around to doing my daily posts at SXSW 2024.

Overall it was a fun time.

Still big problems with the staff. I was told there was no proof I bought the tshirt and poster. They eventually said they could find the tshirt but no poster. They would not refund the money I paid for the poster. I’m upset with this theft and they never responded.

The fast pass was fraught with problems every single day which was another disappointment. I read many posts from others on their problems. Of course it was the IT people attending who said they just set up scripts/bots to reserve what they wanted with a high success. Something to consider in some future iteration.

I do encourage people to go for the vast amount of information, and fun. I will also remember the hit and run driver that killed someone outside the comedy club late one evening and how thankful I am my uber driver was in the wrong place and I had to cross the street, thereby not being in the path of the other driver.

-SFA

I keep a journal on paper. I also have this online journal.

It’s interesting to have both. There is a visceral feel in the act of putting pen to paper. I have to slow down my writing, take the time to process each word, and see the ink bleed into the paper to stay into some future moment, whether or not someone actually reads the words or not.

Online here it will live essentially forever as long as these electrons persist in the cloud. I can go back and reread, if I ever chose to do so, and others, also if they choose to, can take a glimpse into my in-the-moment thoughts.

This form is easier. I don’t have to hunt down my journal and pen. I just need internet access somewhere on the earth to be able to access this site and my blog.

Time passes so quickly, thinking it was only last week I put thoughts down when in fact, the never left my head. My new test will be keeping the site in a tab in my browser and seeing if I end up writing more.

-SFA

So, I didn’t die overnight.

I wrote this way back when and found it stored away. Since it is timeless, I wanted to push it to the digital sphere for posterity.

We’re about halfway through 2021. Somehow.

I don’t see the effects of covid-19 in some of the places I travel to, while in other cities and towns, business are still dealing with limitations and lockdowns.

Some places people walk around with masks and others, masks are carried around “just in case” they are needed.

I usually have at least one if not two masks in the pockets. I invariably forget one in a bag or jacket or pocket. Thankfully with the cloth ones, if I forget in clothes, they’ll get washed anyway.

Flying can still be neurotic and I definately miss traveling to other countries and cultures. No one seems to be taking temperatures anymore.

It’s starting to feel a little bit more normal. The race to New Year’s is on. Will 2021 be missed or 2022 be sought after.

-SFA

I hate when the first post doesn’t upload and the draft doesn’t save either….

Today this country inaugurated a new 46th president.

For me this was over shadowed by things like school, covid-19, getting sleep.

I started to watch the inauguration but got caught up reading more articles than actually watching anything. I never actually saw the inauguration happen.

I assume it went ok.

I am definitely happy to not have read about mass violence throughout the country like what happened in DC earlier.

2021 is moving along just like 2020. That’s not a bad thing. I don’t care much to hold years accountable for the Life. It happens regardless.

I plan to keep just living every day like…. it’s a new day.

-SFA

2021 is just like another year, another day.
off to the hospital i go to work.

i live the day
i don’t forgive
i don’t forget
i have faith in myself

2021 will be just like 2020.

it will be a year when things happened.

sometimes they will seem good to me and others and sometimes they will seem not good. we decided in retrospect.

everyday is an opportunity for growth.

is the glass half full, half empty or the wrong size for what’s inside?

i am me, myself and i

i am not defined by a date or a calendar

i don’t draw hope from the outside but generate it from within so that it is mine and can be fanned versus being snuffed out by a passing ill thought.

being a realist helps me to navigate life’s bumps

“what will be will be but how i react is up to me”
-Nirav 2021

may a nucleus of hope dwell within you that you may persevere against the challenges you choose to face

Aloha, namaste and positive intentions given to the universe.

-SFA