This is about an event that happened a few weeks ago I forgot to post. So grab some popcorn and enjoy the ride.

I am so stupid. But it is not the first time. I always let stuff like happen. I guess I will never learn. I mean really, how hard was it to do?

I must be the laziest guy in the world. I mean yeah, I have been busy and kind of stressed out of late. But that is still not an excuse. It is only 5 minutes or so away from my house. Although, one can argue it is 5 minutes in the wrong direction. In fact it is in the complete opposite direction of the station I commute to.

But enough with the excuses. I need to take responsibility for my actions. After all it was in the back of my mind every day. I even put it in my bag in the morning so that I could go straight there after work.

But you know how it is… You get to the station after a long day of work and the only thing on your mind is food, a shower, and lazing around until bedtime.

I am pretty sure they even rang me like 2 or 3 times to remind me about it.

The art of procrastination. The one million dollar question you ask yourself before any action. Why do it today when I can do it tomorrow? It is a toughie I tell ya. Most of the times when faced with that question I let the little devil on my shoulder convince me that tomorrow is in fact better than today. But all my fellow practitioners of procrastination know that the sad fact of the matter is that tomorrow indeed never comes.

So what did it cost me? I am pretty sure I can make a nice list of stuff I would rather have spent it on:

l  Street Fighter 4 for Xbox

l  Extra Guitar Hero Guitar

l  Headphones for my IPod

l  Webcam

 I can go on all day, but I think you get the point right? So, what on earth am I talking about you ask.

Take a look below…

Tsutaya

At a hefty 300yen a day, bringing your rental DVDs back 23 days late to Tsutaya is never really a good idea…

Where would I be without you? What would I do without you?
You give me the strength to keep on going. Without you I would be hopeless…

I can’t deny it. I would be lying if I said that there were not a few nights where I laid in bed thinking that you are the only thing I had to live for.

How did it come to this? I have let you become my life crutch. Most of my life is spent waiting for you to come. When you come I am happy and when you go I am back to sad.

I need to find a replacement. I need to replace you. You have been good to me, but I guess you are just not enough. You are way too short. You are only two days. Only a mere 48 hours. But that is not even an accurate representation. When you take away sleep time you are much, much less.

I hate sleep. We waste too much of our lives sleeping. It would be cool if the clock stopped while we slept, or if we only needed 1 hour of sleep to tie us over.

I really hope they invent it someday. I would prefer it to be sooner rather than later though. Would be pretty pointless once I am in my 50s or 60s. I need it now while I am still young.

Although I guess I am not really young anymore. I am at best relatively young. I am at a stage in my life where if I don’t stay on top of things, I might wake up tomorrow 50, broke, lonely, singing “No woman, No cry” on a rocking chair on my front lawn.

But it would still be really cool if they could invent it. You know, a sleep replacement pill. Instead of going to sleep at night you would take the pill and it would be the equivalent to one night of sleep. Pretty awesome idea huh? Get back from work at 6-7 and still have 12 hours left to do your own thing before having to resume the rat race.

But I doubt they would make something like that. Probably not in their best interests. Just like it is not in their interests to cure aids or any other serious diseases.

It is Friday again. It is about 13:03 now. Just a little bit more to go. A few more hours and we will be together again. In a couple more hours it will be the weekend again.

2:30. That is the time I saw when I looked at my PC screen. I have a few different ways to find out the time in my house. My phone, PC, TV and laptop. But oddly enough I don’t actually have a clock in my house.

I was in a department store the other day. They actually had a floor dedicated to clocks. They had digital clocks, analogue clocks, clock radios, clocks of all different shapes, sizes and colors. There was one clock that did take my fancy though. It was a rectangular clock that had a map of the world on it. This clock could tell you the time in all the major cities in the world.

But on the downside the price tag was pretty ridiculous. It cost more than twice the amount of a more standard clock.

Buy a standard clock? Or spend a lot more on a clock that will do some pre-school arithmetic for me and tell me the difference between GMT 0 and GMT +9.

It is a toughie I tell you. But it makes me wonder what the world is coming to when it takes this much thought and deliberation to choose a clock to hang on the wall.

Before going to sleep I remembered glancing at the time on my PC and seeing 22:30. So boys and girls a quick pop quiz. If I went to bed at 22:30 and woke up at 2:30 how much sleep did I get (prizes if you guess correctly)?

My stomach started crying so I went over to the fridge. Midnight started getting excited. I threw three pellets into his cube and he devoured them promptly. Sometimes I envy you. The life of a fish must be stress free. Just swim around all day and wait for food. No bills, no problems, no nothing.

How many months have I had you for now? I guess you must be getting tired of pellets. It is all you have eaten since I brought you into my home. I guess I will run to the pet shop and see if I can get you some live feed as a treat.

That made me feel a little bit sad. Greed never got to experience anything other than pellets. RIP Greed. I am sorry I didn’t take better care of you…

I put my hand on my fridge door and was about to open it. Now boys and girls I have another pop quiz for you. I have not gone food shopping for 1 month. What is the chance (in percentage) that when I open my fridge I find any food?

I decided not to open the fridge. I am a bit of gambling man, but I did not fancy my odds on this one.

8:05 was the next time I saw a clock. It was displayed on the platform in the train station. My train is the 8:06. It was crowded as usual. I miss my old route. The train was not very crowded in the morning, although you would be hard pressed to find a seat. There was a guy that I called the scavenger who used to work my route. He would roam up and down the carriages looking for newspapers and mangas that people had left behind. I am assuming he would setup shop somewhere reselling them.

You have got to love the work ethic of the people in this country. Even the homeless are on their hustle.

My company is far from the station. The bigger slap in the face is that I have to walk up a steep hill. Walking up a steep hill first thing in the morning can be soul crushing. Especially when you have had close to no sleep. But yeah, I know, I know “It is good exercise”.

10:14. I am sitting at my desk writing this blog. Unfortunately, today I have to get some work done. Hopefully I can finish it really quickly and get back to writing blogs, speaking to people on msn/aim/skype/facebook and doing more constructive things with my time other than doing work at work.

I guess I should have titled this entry “Half A Day in The Life”…