Nothing Journal

As usual he had quite a few Firefox browser windows open. Not as many as before, as he had recently quit a few games on Kongregate. They had exhausted their content, and he couldn't be bothered to keep playing Squid Ink and Holycity. He switched to the DI.FM tab again and clicked the 'Oldschool Rave' channel. The song 'Journey Through Eurorave' was 2/3rds finished, but it was a 2 hour plus track. A mission clock for Hero Zero ran to the left of it, counting down till he would have to click on it again. The week's HeroCon was to spend energy on time missions. That meant using the default 100 energy and refilling it four times, for an additional 200 energy. He was top in his team, and they were doing reasonably well, 17^th place at the moment. The first tab was Facebook, left open in case of notifications. He clicked onto 'Club Sounds' and it was another long track – 1 hour. He had re-posted a number of 'On this Day' posts in Facebook and someone might like them, or get a laugh. For the most part it was his only real contact with the outside world. Twitter, which was a frequently open tab, didn't hold too many people he knew in person. Mostly just scientists and research organizations. A few odd people that had been fans of Innerspace and a handful of other odd interests like sound podcasts. The logitec keyboard was generally clean, just some dust buildup on the sides of the keys. The black 23 inch monitor was holding up well. Though only 1920x1080 resolution, it was sharp enough. Also open was Glasswire, a Internet usage recorder, though it only worked for the computer it was installed on. Email was checked by Thunderbird, mostly spam from Etsy, Academia.edu, Photobook or Domino's Pizza. He changed the music again to 'Mainstage'. He accessed his programs from the bottom of the Win7 taskbar – only a tiny icon was needed to show what was running. He felt vaguely tired but otherwise not out of sorts. The empty haze was there, as always. His phone was charging again. It could run on standby for about thirty hours, but for heavy gaming it was barely five. As it finished he turned in on again, as it was the anchor for the WhatApp chat. He sent out another odd gif, a meerckat with googly eyes overlaid.