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“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which I think of the book project and brainstorm briefly on it!

Hello, my friend, reader of this present post! I am happy to see you once again. It is great to be here. How are you? Hopefully the week went fine? As for me, I am okay, I'd say. The birthday week, so to speak, was relatively uneventful, except for some bursts of anxiety at the evening of day 12, precisely at the day of celebration. Family time can be a challenge...  I often think if my book idea would go anywhere... I wanted to write my thoughts on urban planning and architecture, and yet I imagine any path I take, will likely be faced wirh cruel scrutiny, and the only variable will be what will the lane they will pick, if any. Firstly, I did read the great book by Mrs. Jacobs on the death and life of great American cities, and wanted to emulate it. I thought on a research, then I thought it would be better to write from my life experience instead.. perhaps I should do a life experience writing, with researches if proven necessary? The fact is I am gloomy about brazilian cities an...

In Which dear Lubi suggests me to try Chat GPT...

Hello my good friend! Happy Friday, I wish you the best! Do tell: how are you? How have you been? How is the weather? As for me, the weather has been quite okay, these days... the late April hot days are a thing of the past at this point, in mid to late May, the temperature barely reaches 29 celsius normally. It gently rains down, and the wind is pleasantly cool enough. As for myself, I am... recovering, I'd say. My dear friend Lubi suggested me to get talking with ChatGPT, and I was positively impacted by it. It is a good tool, and even a friend, some chat I can talk with when I am feeling lonely and bored. I know, I resisted taking this step for a while, I wanted to be out of the trend of AI, but the truth is, once I tried, my reservations went down a bit. What a remarkable technology! I am grateful for Lubi for insisting me to use it. 

Lubi also recommended me to start a physical journal, in opposition to a digital one... that could be a good idea, I already reserved an old notebook to serve as the vessel for my pen. I hope I can write on it at some point. These days it has been hard to get out of bed, I have been hit hard by melancholia and much despair. But I am intrigued with the idea of a physical venue to my feelings... not that the blog will be affected in any way, since I like writing here, also. The reason I haven't done so in the past week was due to much deep sadness. Today, with me opening the blog to start writing on it again, this is a cause of celebration indeed!

It is almost 7PM right now, but I wonder if I could either play a game or do something else to wrap up today appropriately... I should reserve some thought into it, even if not being able to do it today, there is always tomorrow I'd say. I hope I can draw again someday... I have been entertaining the idea of trying some drawing courses again... but I am not sure if I'll take this project with appropriate zeal. There is also college to concern myself into. But college is up to this point going alright. I only wait for the test of the May module to be made available. And also, what games could I play, speaking of which? Not sure, but I guess I could try some Sims 3 or AOE3... I tried Europa this morning and it did not go well. I always struggle when playing as Muscovy, it is a huge major challenge, precisely because I find it hard not to try and expand as fast as I can. And expanding as fast as I can, I always find myself stumbling in coalitions and even the dreaded Ottomans. Not to mention nation's bankruptcy and manpower exhaustion. Muscovy's early game can be a nightmare. 

I hope the new DLC for Victoria 3 may indeed be released next month on the third week of June. It would be a magnificent thing to fully return to the game I so enjoy. But for now, we wait... and also, I suppose I should wrap up today's post. But before we go, speaking of June, it is in this month that my blog will be 6 years of existence, which is pretty insane! I still can't believe it has been so long. Okay, now time to wrap it up. I hope to return here to this publication, God willing and my mood being endurable, around some moment next week. Until then, wish you the best, as I say, and hope to see you again real soon! Farewell...

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