From e8a6caf63dca1a7be9e5d949978f03047e507d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dtb Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 21:19:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 2023-01-02 --- homepage/blah/index.html | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/homepage/blah/index.html b/homepage/blah/index.html index f64968e..f29d802 100644 --- a/homepage/blah/index.html +++ b/homepage/blah/index.html @@ -16,6 +16,38 @@ ideas' witlessness; ideas' witnesses; ideas- +2023-01-02 + + Ted wandered off as he heard sirens approach the crumbling office. His +office was a part of a sparse lot of buildings in the sparse tundra of +Underhelm, a small town on the outskirts of Dance City. The nearest neighbor to +his office, a tall but sterile, empty building, simply concrete, glass, +insulation, drywall, and plenty of carpet and flammable internal bits to start +a blaze, had a sign advertising its potential as a center of operations or call +center or something business or another that Ted didn't have the capacity to +care about. + He didn't know where he got the jerrycan, and didn't know how it still +had any petrol in it, not to mention how it was still full. Ted kicked down the +fashionable but laughably flimsy double doors to the office, then the next pair +of doors past the entryway. The interior looked like it would look really good +if it was set on fire. Ted angled the can to pour a thin stream of gasoline as +he walked from room to room on the ground floor. He admired the new-car smell, +the gasoline aroma, the new-wall scent, the benzene draw, the new tables and +chairs and light fixtures and Cisco-branded IP phones and the pattern on the +carpet and the sharp geometry of the modernist architecture and soon he was +back in the lobby, having completed a loop. Like a soldier, he turned +anticlockwise and continued out of the building, carving a petroleum circle +into the dead grass surrounding the lifeless vessel. + Ted struggled with his lighter. It was a disposable Bic that was nearly +out of butane. After a minute of clicking he was able to get a flame for a +moment and lit the gas trail. He watched the little bead of entropy follow the +path and split out into three, two following the circle and one cautiously +approaching the edifice. The brush and the building caught fire over a period +of a couple minutes and the fire roared to life. + "Must not have been up to code, that." Ted whispered to himself. "Quite +a lot of form, though. Now it finally serves a function." + + 2023-01-01 2022-12-31