Random Assemblage of Words

I've just been watching 'King of the Mounties', an excellent Republic movie serial. Yes, parts of the sound may be lost, but the subtitling is great and the pacing is excellent. It's strange to think, and yes I've said this before, that moviegoing used to be so different. There was a time when you had to wait a whole week between instalments of everything, or even longer, and without being able to refresh your memory. You went, you saw, and you waited. Television was like that too, once upon a time, without Wikipedia or whatever to feed you a handy plot synopsis before the episode. Ah, the old days, when being entertained required effort, and either a razor sharp memory or a willingness to wander in confused and out the same way.

We'll come back to 'King of the Mounties' some other time, as I try to not dilly-dally too long over this particular post. It's getting a bit late in the day for these words to be tumbling out in coherent manner, especially after all the tension of trying to pick out a training provider. Yes, it's time to take the plunge and choose places, and it's a pretty difficult process. How on Earth to choose one college from another, or one school-based experience from another, or even to choose any at all? It's tough, but fortunately as a non-driver, applying when lots of vacancies have already been filled, it's much easier. The only remaining question is the primal one: Why do this at all?

Primal questions linger, long after the trivial ones have been answered or left to wither away from negligence and neglect. However, one random read tweet later, it's better to try than to not try. Even a (non-tragic) failure is better than nothing happening at all! Also, a good experience will stop me from more and more time away on Minecraft. Oh, Minecraft, your appeal is a thing of habit more than novelty. Sandbox games with no well defined endings are so addictive and yet ultimately empty. Let you be gone again until a major update brings new features, or forever!

Yes, primal questions and doubts are normal and don't go away, but sometimes you just have to put them away and do it anyway. Or don't. Whatever seems best. How's that for wishy-washy? Now, back to 'King of the Mounties'... The villains have a secret base in a non-dormant volcano. Non-dormant! Take that, Roald Dahl and 'You Only Live Twice'!

Now, much like at the movie house in the 1940s, it's time to wander out just as confused as we came in.

O.