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Memories of raptures past
Sep. 28th, 2025 05:21 amAnother year and another rapture that I’ve successfully avoided. So if you’re reading this greetings fellow nonbeliever! time to gear up the bacchanal now those pious types have made their exit. Either that or these oracles have all the accuracy of a blind marksman riding a unicycle.
Sadly I’m leaning towards the latter of the two options and feel like we’ll just keep edging towards the end times inch by inch.
At this point I forget how many of these things I've lived through. I remember one, 2012 maybe when I had to be in Taichung for work as the end of the world didn’t qualify as reason to take the day off. (As an aside, trying to deal with the public transport down there made you wish for a swift exit) Having finished my tasks for the day I took a late lunch of baked goods from Yamazaki bakery and hunkered down outside with a frosty final can of Taiwan beer. Still here… oh well.That was a memorable rapture, palm trees, speedy spotless trains, betel nuts, oppressive humidity, this one not so much.
As for my week, first full week of antipsychotics for my dad – A little calmer initially but the compulsions are sneaking back in. 8 hours of Youtube music at the exclusion of anything else yesterday and as I type this I can hear him blasting the fan in the next room despite being under 2 blankets and it’s a sweltering 10 degrees centigrade. Oh well, on the plus side he’s more docile so there is that.
Moving on from the end times it’s almost October so I guess next for me is to get into a spooky mood, time for my annual month of Hammer Horror and cheesy 80s slasher movies.
Sadly I’m leaning towards the latter of the two options and feel like we’ll just keep edging towards the end times inch by inch.
At this point I forget how many of these things I've lived through. I remember one, 2012 maybe when I had to be in Taichung for work as the end of the world didn’t qualify as reason to take the day off. (As an aside, trying to deal with the public transport down there made you wish for a swift exit) Having finished my tasks for the day I took a late lunch of baked goods from Yamazaki bakery and hunkered down outside with a frosty final can of Taiwan beer. Still here… oh well.That was a memorable rapture, palm trees, speedy spotless trains, betel nuts, oppressive humidity, this one not so much.
As for my week, first full week of antipsychotics for my dad – A little calmer initially but the compulsions are sneaking back in. 8 hours of Youtube music at the exclusion of anything else yesterday and as I type this I can hear him blasting the fan in the next room despite being under 2 blankets and it’s a sweltering 10 degrees centigrade. Oh well, on the plus side he’s more docile so there is that.
Moving on from the end times it’s almost October so I guess next for me is to get into a spooky mood, time for my annual month of Hammer Horror and cheesy 80s slasher movies.
