Category: John Otter news

Meandering thoughts. Balance, symmetry and the line we walk everyday. Assumptions about reality being called into question. Life is fragile, and currently I’m happy to be alive in this world. Once in awhile you get a wake up call to remind you that your time on earth is limited. A woman on a cell phone at a café Sunday morning was talking in a very valley girl voice about, apparently, nothing at all. After that I wandered through Moca gazing at Basquiat paintings. Later I took a train, but not before stopping at Traxx bar. Walking home from the train station I stopped at a friends house for some beer and conversation, and eventually made it home to sleep after being awake for 37 hours or something crazy like that. I’m losing momentum now, slowing down & getting sleepy. I would like to drink some more coffee now. I’m waiting patiently.

I had no idea. Talk Like A Pirate Day

Eye exam. Wow, they put drops in my eyes to dilate them – now the world is totally different. Luckily, other than needing glasses, they found nothing wrong with my eyes. They say it takes a couple hours for the eyes to return to normal after dilation. They offered me a reversal type eye drop, but I refused – not only do I hate eye drops, but I wanted to experience the world through dilated eyes. If it weren’t so intense I’d say it’s beautiful. Everything glistens and sparkles. Now that I have an updated prescription I’ll go shopping for frames this weekend. I can’t wait.

Just about an hour ago I dropped a check in the mail which will complete my several year struggle to get out of credit card debt. Its a great feeling. I remember vividly pulling money out of any account or card that would let me get cash and thinking of it as playing a prank on myself in the future. “Ha ha sucker I’m having martini’s on your dime!” was my attitude towards my future self’s debt. It was well worth it all. Now I’m starting to think about low risk, high yield options. Investment strategies, CD’s (the kind I was never really interested in), money market accounts, mutual funds, etc. If I figure anything out I’ll let you know. The first thing I figured out is that a regular savings account pays hardly any interest on your money.
I went to the public library to find books on schematics and such. I find them quite beautiful. I was intending on photocopying several to use as source material in a new series of mixed media but didn’t have any change for the photocopy machine. Then I realized I could just make my own, I don’t really need photocopies. I don’t know that much in terms of designing schematics for anything practical, so I think I’ll try mapping thoughts or something, which seems more like flow-charts…? Wish I new what all the cool little symbols on schematics mean. Seems to have its own vocabulary of function.