when rich people feel restless, they sail their yacht or fly somewhere.

when poor people feel restless, they become vagabonds. but this takes far more bravery.

living like a vagabond like my Swedish visitor and former condo neighbour has been doing for the past few months seems interesting. lots of new experiences. but it's also quite rough. he felt relieved to be in an actual home again. there's no plan for what happens next.

a lot of #ADHD people i've met have been borderline homeless more than once. they feel restless and have an urge to stay on the move. it can be hard for them to settle down, because unchanging surroundings can make them bored and depressed. i recognise that in myself but i have more mental barriers against letting go and making such jumps.

the Swedish guy who slept over is outside to find bottles to recycle.

he hasn't got anywhere to stay, but he definitely can't stay here, even if he paid rent.

he said welfare could offer him a hotel room to stay in until he finds a place again, but he said he'd feel bad about accepting such an offer.

said he'd be more comfortable accepting something more basic, like a homeless shelter.

it was his choice to leave and travel around like a vagabond and he doesn't want to be a burden.

air traffic control is pretty wild.

just from the air traffic, you can see the difference between how the Scandinavian countries are populated.

in Norway, people are spread out north to south.

in Sweden and Finland, the north is virtually depopulated.

in Denmark, there's people everywhere. they have roughly the same population as Norway but is much smaller.

the sky is a really busy place

taking a walk on a weekend night in a downtown area is a bit of a life hack for meeting people.

no need to approach people. anyone who's walking the other way is already approaching you...

in a way, it's stupidly easy to spot single girls when you walk around a city on weekend nights. if they're not with anyone, there's a good chance they're single.

i went out with a Swedish guy i ran into last night and we walked around. a guy we walked along with for a little saw a girl waking toward us and stopped to chat her up. that's how uncomplicated it was for him. "hey, what are you doing out alone?" kind of thing.

sometimes, as a nerd, you do tend to overthink things a little...

i should take more night walks in the streets of downtown Oslo. there is so much more to the city than just the bars and nightclubs. you might even argue that this is what "going to town" really means since you're not indoors. you run into random groups of people who are walking around and you stop to talk. i do find that it helps to be more than one person though. approaching a people is much easier when you're with others.

odd experience: the guy i was with last night lives like a tramp right now and ringed a doorbell in central Oslo and someone came out with soup. getting soup through an anonymous door with no sign on it made it look like some kind of drug deal, but it was just a soup kitchen. on paper he doesn't have to live like this but he's "unplugged from the Matrix".

funny how somebody turned up to take me on a little adventure just as i was getting bored with life and questioning my purpose.

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last night was wild.

at the store, i ran into my Swedish neighbour, who i hadn't heard from in a while. he's the adventurous type.

turns out he doesn't live in my condo anymore and has been travelling around Europe like a tramp. he's back in Oslo but doesn't have a place to stay and has been sleeping outdoors.

anyway, it was Friday night so i invited him and the guy he was with back to my condo and we had some beers. the other guy was super wasted so we got him to bed and then left for downtown Oslo.

the Swede bought some cocaine and amphetamine that we tried out. we talked to some partygoers and homeless people. the Swede took a bath in the sea.

he stayed overnight at my place. slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. i bought bread and made us some soup for breakfast. he put up some clothes to dry since they were all wet and he just popped out to do some errands.

he brought souvenirs from Amsterdam.

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unexpected outcomes

nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq on some level, it would be okay if life continued as it does right now, if this sense of purpose didn't waiver.