Lost time?

Wow. Okay, so...usually, before I start writing a post, I check out recent entries on my blog just to see what I've already covered of late. This time, upon looking at my recent entries, I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was missing a post. When I would have made this post or what it contained, I have absolutely no idea. The evidence is definitely on the side of me not having posted. And yet...my brain still struggles to recall what was in that "lost" entry. I dunno, man... I think I've been blogging into my brain again. That's generally not a good thing; no one gets to see it except me, and then I forget about it and it's lost forever. Damn brain blog!

Anyway...so now I'm here, and half of me thinks I have nothing to blog about it, and another half of me thinks I already blogged about it anyway. Now that's some pointlessness right there. Anyhoo...

I did more chores on Sunday, and hopefully the house is now not a total wreck and will welcome back my mom who, I believe, should be returning sometime today. Probably while I'm away at class, actually, so I'll be spared her initial reaction on coming back and seeing the state of the garden, so that's probably a good thing. :) As stated earlier, I concentrated more on indoor chores this time around. Cleaning up the bathroom was the weirdest. For some reason, as I was scrubbing the sink, I felt like I was wiping down a crime scene. It was odd...I just felt like I was removing the evidence of my passage. Too much Law & Order.

Anyway, the return of Momz means big changes for me, as I will no longer be lord of the manor around here, and I'm going to have to settle back into a new rhythm. My prediction currently is that I'm going to have a lot less online time, since I will cease to have available to me (a) lots of uninterrupted alone time, and (b) a phone line that other people aren't using. Also, I think I'm going to try to find work. Like...I was going to try to put it off now that I'm in dealer school and may actually be qualified to do something soon, but I'm not sure I can swing it any more. Just plain and simple, I need the money. Plus...well, if I can't land a coveted poker spot, I'll have to go to more school to get certified in dealing other things, so I'll need money for that. Plus, no matter what dealing job I end up landing, I'm under the impression that it may take some months to actually get there, and if not that, then there's certainly some months involved in getting my license, so I'll need money for that. Anyway...I'll need money. So that means job. Which will mean job plus school, which will mean not a lot of time for me to dick around on the Internet. So...we'll see how that develops. Don't worry, I won't leave without saying goodbye.

What else...oh, I saw this great Discovery Channel special about chimps. Specifically, these chimps that this crazy animal lady is raising. She, like, raises them like humans and tries to teach them to read and shit. Oh my God, dude...it's crazy. It really got me to thinking about how we enslave animals for our use. Like...we're pretty casual about it in most cases. They help us work or give us food and clothes or keep us company or whatever. There are people who object, sure, but by and large, as a society or a people, we're pretty comfortable with our use of animals. I wonder if it will make people any less comfortable if the animals get more human-like...and by that I just mean able to deal with us on our own terms. Like...chimps sort of have a leg-up by being sort of shaped like us, but in theory, anything that starts to communicate with us in something of a kind of linguistic way...well, it's bound to give people pause, I think. Recently, enhat posted here about dolphins being used to sweep for mines in the ocean. I don't know if that actually holds any danger for the dolphins, but it sounds scary anyway. :) So let's say we smarten up some chimps or dolphins or whatever you like, and we can start using them for labor. I'm thinking especially stuff that's potentially dangerous, not to mention just the plain ol' day-to-day menial. Can we fall into our natural specieist mode? Or will we eventually be looking at a new civil rights movement? Can this be held up against a similar train of thought for artifical life? We appear to have decided, as a culture, that it is a Bad Thing to enslave other humans. But, really...being "human" is really just a product of how other humans feel about you. Our brains are good at anthropomorphizing as it is; if the subject is a living, breathing being...I dunno...could be trouble. I dunno. I think this deserves a whole post unto itself, and not when I'm rushing through things and have errands to run and class to go to. And really, maybe it's not even that big a thing. I guess I just want to see the race to sentience between a constructed AI and a trained chimp. :)

You know what the weirdest thing has been about transitioning to being a morning person instead of a night person? I have to sit around and wait for things to open before I can run errands, instead of rushing around before they close. Just sayin'.