Prokofy Neva, Virtualtor
So the MidJourney artifacture for this one is boxes of clutter in the desert…in the style of Russian 19th century painter Ivan Aivazovsky, because the desert of my living room feels like his seas, endless, and then there's that light…
After the ordeal of the Desk Clean-Up and the computer crippling, it was hard to complete that long chunked-up chore, but it had to be done. For months — since the summer, has it been? — I've been tripping over three — no four — really five boxes in the living room, the result of the computer desk clean-up — which is like a hutch with shelving and the desk below with the desktop — which was completed only on one side and the middle.
Finally, all the items in the boxes — trinkets, knick-knacks, figurines, coins, medicines, children's art, photos of family and friends and more — got put back on the shelves and in a few cases even tossed. Shouldn't medicines be in the medicine cabinet? Well, when you have to take so many of them, and throughout the day, and the medicine cabinet is tiny and filled with a lot of clutter in its own right (another Just One Thing in the making!), then on the desk it goes, it's just more convenient. But at least I could stage them better, put the ones I'm on "holiday" from for three months in the back, the ones not needed as often in the back as well, etc.
I also managed to put a few things that were just scattered around also away on the hutch — and really more could go up there, including Just One Thing projects like "re-do the senior citizen metro card" — there's instructions and the number and such. And of course seeing the completely out-of-date "In Case of Emergency", I just wrote OUT OF DATE across it and continued another little project, that of putting my passwords and insurances and such in a notebook above my desk.
Along the way I was reminded of how I had somehow gotten (or my son had gotten) the disks to install (or rather play) "Dust: Tale of the Wired West" and "Titanic" by the same author, my first video games on the computer from the 1990s, which I just loved to pieces and played endlessly, rarely winning (the Dust had a very tricky, encrypted ending I recall). I believe it even had different ending paths you could take. But I don't have a disc drive any more so I can't play them. I think I've seen other downloadable versions of it online but I can't get distracted with this in my current crisis.
So meanwhile, I had an unexpected moment of grace when I found a little pink and gold bottle with a dropper called Biossance – Squalame – Vitamin C Oil (it was a present from mydaughter) which actually worked to soothe my injured finger for more than half an hour — even 5-6 hours — leading me to think perhaps it could be healed some day.
I cut this finger in the early days of the pandemic when I finally moved into my smaller apartment, and I have struggled with it for four years, because lacerations don't heal due to my immune disease. At one point it had three different infections, and I've been to the ER with it even when it escalated the first week. This is a long, twisty story I don't feel up to telling now but that rose oil is great stuff! Maybe I will come back and fill in the story later. This goes for as much as $55 a bottle, good thing there is a lot left and I can likely find some on sale.
